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Gentle, rigorous literature and writing for the homeschool years — built by a teacher, on a ranch. Choose where your reader is, and begin.

Free First Week

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Enter your email and I'll send you a real first week of Summer Foundations — yours to keep, with just the novel and an unhurried afternoon.

A first taste of literary study, through Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Six unhurried weeks.

A season of close attention — six weeks among the poets, then Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

Shakespeare's most enchanting comedy — wit, wonder, and the woods, read the slow and beautiful way.

Shakespeare's darkest tragedy — ambition, conscience, and consequence, read slowly and well.

Brontë's wild Gothic masterpiece — the moors, the passions, and the long shadow they cast.

A new year of living stories for the middle-school reader — narration carried gently into real writing.

Consider the Lilies — a printable journal for keeping the lines worth remembering.