educational fiction
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Book ReviewsThe Plot Chickens
by Mary Jane and Herm Auch 2010 / 32 pages Rating: Good Henrietta the chicken can read and she wants to write. And though she…
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Adult fictionWar in the Wasteland
by Douglas Bond 273 pages / 2016 RATING: Gift “Second Lieutenant C.S. Lewis in the trenches of WWI” – if that doesn’t grab you, I…
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Book ReviewsPrincess Navina visits Malvolia
The most important of topics aren’t always the most interesting. That’s why, instead of writing a textbook on the subject of “how government policy goes…
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Adult biographiesLuther in love
by Douglas Bond 2017 / 320 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Luther in Love shows us the Reformer from the perspective of his better half. The story begins…
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Adult fictionTime will run back
by Henry Hazlitt 368 pages / 1951 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift As novels go, this is intriguing. As economics textbooks go it is downright amazing. Like 1984……
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Book ReviewsSecret Coders (6 books)
by Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes 2015-2018 / 92-110 pages each x 6 volumes Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Hopper is at a new school and gets…
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Book ReviewsWhat really happened to the dinosaurs?
by John Morris and Ken Ham 1990 / 32 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Some children, it seems, are born with a love for all things dinosaurs while…
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Book ReviewsThe Farm at the Center of the Universe
by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt 2024 / 167 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give An astrobiologist has written a young adult novel with an Intelligent Design agenda,…
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Book lists10 comics on cartooning
If you have a young artist in the house, or if you’re looking to inspire someone to try their hand at art, here’s a collection…
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Book ReviewsMaker Comics: Survive in the Outdoors
by Mike Lawrence 2021 / 123 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift When mom and dad go off on a trip on their ownsome, Sophia and Alonso are…
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Book ReviewsI survived the Nazi invasion, 1944 (8 books recommended)
by Lauren Tarshis art by Alvaro Sarraseca 2021 / 158 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Max and Zena are two Polish Jewish children who, at the time…
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Book ReviewsThe Hyperinflation Devastation
by Connor Boyack 400 pages / 2019 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Remember those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books kids loved back in the 1980s? Readers would be brought…
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Book ReviewsSir Badalot and the Cranky Danky Dragon
by Rachel Jankovic Illustrated by Forrest Dickison 32 pages / 2022 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give “Now this cranky danky dragon Liked to drink a dragon whine That he…
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Book ReviewsWhat’s Darwin got to do with it? A friendly conversation about Evolution
by Robert C. Newman & John L. Wiester 146 pages / 2000 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift A graphic novel about evolution vs. intelligent design? Now that’s got…
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Adult fictionLetters Along The Way, from a Senior Saint to a Junior Saint
by D.A. Carson & John Woodbridge 2022 / 373 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Christians have long had the chance, in C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, to eavesdrop…
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Book ReviewsThe Comic Book Lesson (2 books)
A graphic novel that shows you how to make comics by Mark Crilley 2022 / 156 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Emily is a young artist with…
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Adult fictionThe Journey
A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims by Peter Kreeft 1996 / 128 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is an allegorical journey, reminiscent of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s…
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Book ReviewsThe Revolt: a novel in Wycliffe’s England
by Douglas Bond 269 pages / 2016 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I was never a fan of Church history in school, but I’ve come to realize that…
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Adult fictionThe Last Disciple
by Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff 2004 / 428 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give It’s the year 65 AD, and Gallus Sergius Vitas is one of the…
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Book ReviewsLindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse (2 books)
by Torben Kuhlmann 96 pages / 2014 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give How did man first learn to fly? It seems we had a little help. This is…
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Adult fictionOnce Upon a Wardrobe
by Patti Callahan 2021 / 285 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT The year is 1950, and an eight-year-old George Henry Devonshire has finished a book, just published,…
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Adult fictionGreg Dawson and the psychology class
by Jay Adams 2008 / 149 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is a novel, but it’d be more accurate to call it a textbook masquerading as…
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Articles – BooksWhy is dystopian fiction worth reading?
In dystopian fiction we get a glimpse at some sort of looming, foreboding future: maybe it’s humans devolving into separate castes (H.G. Wells’ Time Machine),…
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Book listsLearning about Luther: 10 titles your family will enjoy
Five hundred years ago a learned monk drew up 95 pointed arguments and asked for a debate. What he got was a revolution. Fast forward…