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Feature Review

The Mystery of History

by Linda Lacour Hobar

Bright Ideas Press

This is one of my 100 Top Picks!

[Note: this review is updated and expanded from the review in 100 Top Picks.]

Volumes I, II, and III of a projected four-volume series are a great history resource for homeschoolers. They are designed so that even inexperienced parents can break free from traditional textbooks. They combine read aloud information with age appropriate activities to create a multi-sensory curriculum for history and geography with a very strong biblical base. They are designed to be used with children in grades K through 8 for the first two volumes, although the reading level is about sixth grade. Volume III stretches into high school level.

Titles for the four volumes are:

Volume I: Creation to the Resurrection
Volume II: The Early Church and the Middle Ages (A.D. 30-1460)
Volume III: The Renaissance, Reformation, and the Growth of Nations (1455-1707)
Volume IV:not yet titled (1708-the present)

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