Book review: Literature : North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Recommended: Middle School,High SchoolA good book to understand the industrial revolution and perspectives of mill owners and workers in a fictional industrializing city. Click here to Watch the video Click Here to Buy the Book The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England.Margaret Hale leaves her rural setting and moves to settles

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Book Review:Children’s Literature: Little Men~ Louisa May Alcott

Recommended:Moms,Middle School and High School Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1871.The Story begins at Jo Bhaer’s (Formerly Jo March from Little Women by Louisa )  Plumfield Estate School were we get introduced to Nat Blake who is waiting to get admitted into the school.The book

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Living Homeschool History(India):Book Review: India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha

Recommended Age:Upper Middle school,High School,Graduates Click Here to watch the Video Click Here to buy the Book Highly recommend this book for anyone interested in Indian politics and Indian democracy.This part of history is relatively less lengthier to read than others as it is less than 80 years.Time period is from 1947 to 2015.It enables us to understand the why’s

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Book Review:Classic Books – Animal Farm by George Orwell

Recommended Age:Middle School,High School. A political satire novel.The book is thought provoking and helps us to understand cult personality,dictatorship and tyranny. Click Here to buy the book Click Here to Watch the Review The story begins where the animals in a farm who rebel against their human master and take over the farm.They are led by two leaders,Snowball and Napoleon

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LIVING HOMESCHOOL HISTORY:Book Review:Freedom at Midnight – Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins

Recommended for: High schoolers This book talks from the view point of Last Viceroy Mountbatten.   We get to have a glimpse of how 1946-1948 looked like and to better understand personalities of 3 prominent men – Gandhi ji,Nehru ji and Viceroy Mountbatten.  We get a understand: The Circumstances by which the British were ready to let go of their very

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