One great story.
Five learning trails.
Read it together. Listen in the car. Then follow the trails that interest your family into geography, ecology, engineering, language, and research.
Free illustrated ebook · Complete audiobook · Family Reading & Discussion Guide · Homeschool learning trails and optional companions
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Take a look through the Family Reading & Discussion Guide here. Downloads stay behind the same free email gate used throughout the education resources.
Preview the Family Reading & Discussion Guide
Follow the trails that interest your family.
Each trail starts inside the story and leads into a real academic subject. Every trail has three levels so siblings of different ages can explore the same world at different depths. Check the ones you want.
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When you want to go deeper
Browse the full education collection for reading and pacing, vocabulary, academic learning trails, values and themes, discussion resources, and the optional faith companion. Preview first; download only what serves your family.
Browse Homeschool ResourcesWhen your family wants to go there
Biblical language, images, and ideas appear throughout the Wilderland. These optional resources connect scenes from the novel with Scripture. Your family decides where the conversation goes.
Reading aloud tonight? Let Melanie take a chapter.
Read along together, keep the story moving in the car, or hand the headphones to an independent reader. The complete audiobook is free to Mingle families.
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Some books get assigned. Others get talked about over breakfast, carried into the car, argued about on the couch, read aloud at bedtime, and remembered years later.
The Mingles in Wilderland was written to be the second kind.
If your child wants to keep reading instead of stopping for a worksheet, keep reading. If a ten-minute discussion turns into forty-five minutes around the kitchen table, forget the lesson plan. If one strange word sends somebody down a research trail for the afternoon, follow it.
Use everything. Use one thing. Or just read the book.
Bring one story to the whole family.
Start with the free illustrated ebook and complete audiobook. Add the learning trails whenever they make the story richer.