By Herge Years ago, before the movie came out, a loyal customer and homeschool writer, Ana Braga Henebry, suggested we carry these books. From the very first book we obtained to present day, our kids cannot put them down. Written in the 1940’s and translated into many languages around the world these will soon become family’s…
Category: JES’s Shelf (Teens)
Real Woman, Real Saints
By Gina Loehr “Heaven’s doors are wide open and God is doing everything he can to make us all into saints.” —from Chapter Eight. We know a great book when our children show us one! Full of famous and not so famous woman saints, from every station of life, each with their own remarkable story….
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Austen is arguably the finest female novelist who ever lived and Pride and Prejudice is arguably the finest, and is certainly the most popular, of her novels. A classic of world literature, its profound Christian morality is all too often missed or willfully overlooked by today’s (post)modern critics. Yet Austen saw the follies and foibles of…
Choosing Beauty: A 30-Day Spiritual Makeover for Women
By Gina Loehr Gina Loehr does it again, I really enjoyed her insight into the lives of women saints in her book Real Women, Real Saints and learned much from their virtues….now Gina takes us on a real and practical retreat towards inner beauty…the kind that reflects the joy of our Faith. Mascara will help…
Handbook of Prayers: Student Edition
Edited by James Socias We have been searching for several years for a complete and handy prayer book for our older children. This book fit the bill, the wonderful devotional material contained in this brand new, pocket sized, student version of the well known Handbook of Prayers from the Midwest Theological Forum is perfect for…
The Prove-it Series
By Amy Welborn Finally! Finally! Finally! These books are excellent, but also fun, funny, and simply marvelous! So many apologetics books are simply too dense for those of us who are not experts. This series defends basic truths in a way that everyone can understand. These books are full of charming cartoons and quips such…
Red Falcons of Tremoine
by Hendry Peart Set in 12th century Medieval England, in the days of knights, Chivalry, Richard the Lionhearted, the Crusades, and treachery. Told through the eyes of the orphan boy Leo, a seemingly nobody. Entrusted and raised by the kindly Abbot who has protected the boy since he was a baby, Leo has learned the ways of life in a…
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by Avi “Asta’s son” is all he’s ever been called. The lack of name is appropriate, because he and his mother are but poor peasants in fourteenth-century medieval England. When his mother dies this thirteen-year-old boy, who thought he had little to lose, soon finds himself with even less—no home, family, or possessions. He…
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare The setting is the Colony of Connecticut in 1687 amid the political and religious conflicts of that day. When sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler unexpectedly arrives at her aunt and uncle’s doorstep, she is unprepared for the new world which awaits her. Raised by her grandfather in Barbados, she doesn’t understand the conflict…
Taggerung – A Review
Taggerung is the 14th novel in the famous Redwall series written by Brian Jacques. Jacques outdoes himself in the stunning tale of a young otter who was kidnapped as a babe by a vermin clan to be their legendary warrior, the Taggerung. One day Tagg deserts the clan because of their cruelty and teams up…