Bottom Line first: I don’t do this very often, but I want to make this point right up front. You do not have to be a homeschool student to enjoy and learn from this book! Your child will enjoy “playing” with this puzzle book all the way to Grandma’s house, or when he is bored and wants something besides just another book to read. You can also use it as your primary Science text for a few weeks if you homeschool, but don’t expect it to last a whole semester! It’s inexpensive and effective — perfect for your 7-11 year old reader to use independently.
The Case of The Missing Mountain is a mystery, a Science book, and a fun, interactive puzzle book at the same time. Since I needed to find out if it would actually work as an independent Science text in our homeschool, I asked my nine year old to try it out. Here is what he says. “I like this book because it is interactive, and it is not just all reading and writing.” That’s pretty high praise from a nine year old don’t you think?
The Case of the Missing Mountain is 80 pages of puzzles, clues and guided reading all of which helps the student delve deeply into the subject of volcanoes from a Creation Science perspective. Seriously, by the time I finished reading the book (I didn’t do any of the puzzles since I was saving them for my son…) I had learned a ton of information about volcanoes myself and I have a college degree. For instance, I did not know that the rock striation of the Grand Canyon and Mt. St. Helens canyons post volcano look very similar and this explains how the Grand Canyon was formed. And, I didn’t know that gas could “flow” called Pyroclastic flow which also contains rock. Plus, the process of learning all of this information was interesting and memorable.
I highly recommend this book.
Disclaimer: I received this book for free from New Leaf Publishing in exchange for an honest review on my blog. Here you have it.