family Archives - Classical Education Books https://classic.powertactics.com/product-tag/family/ Conveniently Canadian Sun, 16 Oct 2022 07:00:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://classic.powertactics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/favicon-32x32.png family Archives - Classical Education Books https://classic.powertactics.com/product-tag/family/ 32 32 The Story of the Family https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-story-of-the-family/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-story-of-the-family/#respond Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:16:19 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=46316 "The disintegration of rational society started in the drift from the hearth and the family", wrote G. K. Chesterton in 1933. "The solution must be a drift back." In a world that has lost touch with normality, it takes a pioneer to rediscover the wonders of the normal. This masterful compilation of texts and quotes from [...]

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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-story-of-the-family/feed/ 0 The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-vanderbeekers-of-141st-street/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-vanderbeekers-of-141st-street/#respond Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:31:39 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=24146 The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. When their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they [...]

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The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden
The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue
The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found
The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish

 

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Books in Series:

Ramona the Brave
Ramona Forever
Ramona the Pest
Beezus and Ramona
Ramona and Her Father
Ramona’s World
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Ramona and Her Mother 

Additional Items:
Ramona 4-Book Collection Volume 1

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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/beezus-and-ramona/feed/ 0 The Relatives Came https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-relatives-came/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 01:00:19 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=11732 The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

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]]> In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.

When they finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long. They all knew they would be together next summer.

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]]> The Read-Aloud Family https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-read-aloud-family/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:05:53 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=11535 Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s challenges. As Sarah Mackenzie has found with her [...]

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]]> Founder of the immensely popular Read-Aloud Revival podcast, Sarah knows first-hand how reading can change a child’s life. In The Read-Aloud Family, she offers the inspiration and age-appropriate book lists you need to start a read-aloud movement in your own home. From a toddler’s wonder to a teenager’s resistance, Sarah details practical strategies to make reading aloud a meaningful family ritual. Reading aloud not only has the power to change a family—it has the power to change the world.

Related Products:

Read Aloud Bundle

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]]> Ox-Cart Man https://classic.powertactics.com/product/ox-cart-man/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/ox-cart-man/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:45:36 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=8199 Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods – the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daughter knitted, and the linen they wove. He packs [...]

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“Like a pastoral symphony translated into picture book format, the stunning combination of text and illustrations recreates the mood of 19-century rural New England.”—The Horn Book

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