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Manjhi Moves a Mountain and The Water Princess - Two True Stories About People Who Decided to Change Their Worlds

This blog post contains affiliate links. As a Bookshop.org affiliate I earn a commission for sales through my links. Thanks for helping to support literaryhomeschool.com.     by Valerie Chase   This week's blog post reviews two books about real life heroes who decided to change their worlds - and did!   Georgie Badiel wasn't always a famous model. She used to be a little girl in Burkina Faso who dreamed of accessible clean water. Her story is told in The Water Princess by Susan Verde, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds .    Dashrath Manjhi lived in a small village in India. His impoverished village was separated from a more prosperous village by a mountain. Manjhi dreamed of connecting the two villages, and so he did, by chipping away at the mountain with a hammer and chisel over the course of 22 years. His story is told in Manjhi Moves A Mountain by Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Danny Popovici.    The Water Princess As a child in Burkina Faso, Georgie Badiel had to walk three
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Journey Around The World - While Staying At Home

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 Books - Your Ticket To Anywhere This blog post contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. I earn a commission for sales through my affiliate links. Thanks for helping to support Literary Homeschool!   by Valerie Chase   Traveling around the world sounds like fun, doesn't it? Let's grab our passports and go! Wait, don't head to the airport - travel is very difficult in the age of Covid-19.  I want to travel the world, but I also want to travel through time and meet interesting people who are no longer with us. I know how to time travel! It's not a secret discovery - it's called reading!   Elementary school aged kids, it's time to set off on our reading adventure around the world. Last week we traveled the U.S. with books, so this week we're learning about the rest of the world!   Canada Our journey starts with Canada.   Bobby Orr and the Hand-Me-Down Skates by Karla Kootstra  & Bobby Orr, illustrated by Jennifer Phelan Bobby Orr is one of the greatest hoc
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Literary Homeschool - Let's Travel Around The U.S. While Staying At Home!

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This blog post contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. I earn a commission on sales from my affiliate links. Thanks for helping to support Literary Homeschool! by Valerie Chase Traveling Around The U.S. - With Books! We're all living through an unprecedented time in history. Millions of kids in the United States are doing school at home in 2020. Homeschool registrations have surged, and kids who are still enrolled in public or private schools are attending online school at home.  It gets boring to stay at home, doesn't it? It may sound cheesy, but it's true: books can transport us to other places. Books have a power that tv shows and computer games do not. We enter other people's minds with books, and we can imagine ourselves having all sorts of exciting adventures.  I've put together a sample of books about travel around the U.S. They're not travel books, they are books about life in America throughout different time periods.  Enjoy these books as read alouds
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