@daeus-lamb

Thank you for the detailed reply! I’ll definitely consider those points.

@olivia

I use a lot of different curricula, but I use Memoria Press for literature. I’ve heard good things about Sonlight, and all the reading seems a plus.

@when-i-see-the-kingdom

The Wordsnatcher was so clever! I also like the Triple Demons of Compromise.

Okay For Now is sadder than The Wednesday Wars, but is still hopeful. I highly recommend it.

@olivia

I heard of The Twenty-One Balloons from my homeschool curriculum too! I think I ended up reading it before I had to do it for school because I…[Read more]

@when-i-see-the-kingdom

Phantom Tollbooth is another one of my favorites–can’t believe I didn’t mention it! I love the Humbug so much.

And if you like The Wednesday Wars, there’s a sequel called Okay For Now that follows Doug and a new book I haven’t read yet called Just Like That about Meryl Lee.

@olivia

Glad to meet someone else who’s heard…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@when-I-see-the-kingdom</p>
Hi Emily!

I’m an INTP, 5w6, and I also like middle-grade, although I think most of writing is more YA. What are some of your favorite middle-grade books? I really like Gary D. Schmidt’s books, The Trumpet of the Swan, and The Twenty-One Balloons.

Hope to see you around!

-Sparrow

Mr. Lang, and he has a rather long list of people he’d like to see disreputed XD

Who would be most likely to move to a different country and assume a new identity?

Aloysius does that very thing.

Torsten, or Laiaka. But they’d do it for different reasons–Torsten, because he tries soo hard to live up to others’ expectations and Laiaka because she’s the mom friend who doesn’t want anyone to die XD

Who’s most likely to keep all their childhood toys?

Torsten, again!

Isaac. He’s a game nerd. He’d probably invent a new game though than make up rules for an existing game because the Rulebook Is King and House Rules Are Not Rules.

Who is most likely to play their music loud enough to annoy the neighbors?

Maybe Malar. He doesn’t much care about what people think as long as he’s happy.

Enitan, probably. He’s pretty reckless, much to the annoyance of his protective sister and reserved brother.

Who’s most likely to write poetry?

I’ll go with Torsten. He’s quiet and reflective and loves storytelling.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@daeus-lamb</p>
I thought AtCS was good, definitely better than I expected. It has a theme of dealing with personal darkness but needing the help of others to overcome it. And lots of owls, which is always a plus in my book.

I haven’t read The Scorpio Races yet but it’s one of the million books on my TBR.

Totally agree with you @taylorclogston. In my experience, the biggest enemies have come from within the church. It is quite disillusioning.

@epicaddie2

Also, The Giver Quartet is a good series and the first one, The Giver, seems very pro-life to me. The later books do get rather fantastical (not necessarily a bad thing, but the first one is more sci-fi).

@zee

I just bought the two other books in the Roman Britain trilogy and hope to read them soon!

I recommend Gary D. Schmidt’s books The Wednesday Wars, Okay For Now, Orbiting Jupiter, and Pay Attention Carter Jones (he has many more but those are the ones I’ve read so far). They all deal with different themes, but I think the overarching one in all of them is family and dealing with a broken family. They’re very entertaining, in my opinion,…[Read more]

Hi @candide !

I have not yet written this novel, but one of the stories of my heart is about young people hurt very seriously by the church, inspired by things I’ve witnessed and heard about in the past couple years. So I’m not sure if I have any real advice to give on the topic, but I’m really excited that someone is writing and thinking about…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Oh, that’s funny! I’ve also heard one, not necessarily a Latin joke, but about a centurion going into a bar, holding up two fingers, and saying, “Five drinks please”.

And then there’s all the jokes about how you know five different ways to say kill, death, or murder but you can’t converse about the weather.