Some months after the death of her parents, Polly is living in England with her two elderly aunts, Dorcas and Constantia. Polly desperatel...

We Alcotts is a nonfiction narrative written by Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe in the voice of Abba May Alcott, better known as Marmee from...

This week's reading was Chapter 13 ("Nicholas Flamel"), Chapter 14 ("Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback"), and Chapt...

Family Read-Alouds Our lunchtime read-alouds were all Christmas-themed in December and early January: The Twenty-Four Days Before Christma...

When the farmer down the road falls ill, Mary and her grandmother worry about the animals who live on his farm being left on their own. Th...

This past week I read chapters 9 through 12 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone : The Midnight Duel, Hallowe'en, Quidditch...

This month's prompt for the Blog All About It challenge is First. I've decided to do a little retrospective and look back at the fir...