Monthly Archives: February 2015

HOME SCHOOL BOOK REVIEW Book: Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War Author: Sam R. Watkins Cover illustrator: David Zachary Cohen Publisher: Touchstone, reprinted in 2003 ISBN-13: 978-0743255417 ISBN-10: 0743255410 Related website: http://www.simonsays.com (publisher) Language level: 3 (1=nothing … Continue reading →

HOME SCHOOL BOOK REVIEW Book: They Heard Him Gladly: A Critical Study of Benjamin Franklin’s Preaching Author: Ottis L. Castleberry Publisher: Old Paths Book Club, 1963 ASIN: B001IPKJLQ Hardcover ASIN: B0007EXM40 Paperback Language level: 1 (1=nothing objectionable; 2=common euphemisms and/or … Continue reading →

HOME SCHOOL BOOK REVIEW Book: The Youngest General: A Story of Lafayette Author: Fruma Gottschalk Illustrator: Rafaello Busoni Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 1949 ASIN: B0007DZ82U Language level: 1 (1=nothing objectionable; 2=common euphemisms and/or childish slang terms; 3=some cursing or profanity; … Continue reading →

HOME SCHOOL BOOK REVIEW Book: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters 1929 – 1932 Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh Publisher: Mariner Books, reissued in 1993 ISBN-13: 978-0151421763 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0151421765 Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0156421836 Paperback ISBN-10: 0156421836 Paperback Language … Continue reading →

HOME SCHOOL BOOK REVIEW Book: John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois Author: James Pickett Jones Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, reprinted in 2001 ISBN-13: 978-0813007298 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0813007291 Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0809323890 Paperback ISBN-10: 0809323893 Paperback Related website: http://www.siu.edu/~siupress (publisher) … Continue reading →