My First Ever Book Release Party!!

Well my favorite" roadschooling writing"author Lisa M. Cottrell-Bentley's publishing company has several new books that we are going to be hosting an online book release party on Homeschool Literature! I can't even tell you how excited I am to be a part of new authors writing stories with homeschoolers as the main/supporting  character. Along with Joy and Kerry, great friends and helpers on the site, we were given copies of the books to read. We are going to be doing some special reviews for the party so that everyone can see what we thought of the books, along with some giveaways. (both on the site itself and on our Facebook page)

here's the list of great things that we are doing for the party!

• First 50 visitors on the 16th receive a free ebook from Lisa M. Cottrell-Bentley
• Giveaways on both the site and our Facebook page on that day
• Live chat with author and homeschooling mom ,Lisa M. Cottrell-Bentley, on "helping the reluctant writer"
• Video interviews with the authors
• Audio excerpts from the books
• Interview/video with the illustrators
• Book activities and games
• Book reviews

Books about Homeschoolers

Well if you know me at all then you know that I am very passionate about HomeschoolLiterature.com. If you don't know me well.....get to know me, I am COOL! When I was first approached about the idea of helping set up this unique site, I was a little worried that there were not really any good books out there about homeschoolers. Fast forward almost a year later and I have read a lot of the books from the site and I really loved almost all of them.  A big bonus is that there are new stories coming out all the time. My four favorites so far are~ Surviving the Applewhites, Skellig, Schooled and Gunrunner Moon, because they all pulled me into the story (and the boys too, since I read them aloud to them). They also gave a fun and unique spin on different types of homeschoolers.  Some of the books on the site, have lesson plan ideas to use with them or spelling/vocabulary lists unique to each story. These were fun for me to create and do with the boys to give them a better grasp of the stories. While looking for books about homeschoolers, we also came across several books written by people who were homeschooled, just in case all of you were wondering if kids who are homeschooled can be successful. It is truly fascinating to me to see homeschoolers being creative and doing something on their own.

While in our family's homeschooling education has a lot to do with reading great literature books and doing lesson plans based on them. It is always a pleasure to have a book that the boys can related to because they have something in common with the characters from the story. So while yes we read the classics or listen to them on audio CD, we have also found some new homeschooling classics that we will enjoy reading for years to come. If you happen to stop by HomeschoolLiterature.com and see a book that I haven't found yet, please let me know so that all of us can read it;)