Wright On Time Review
HHM Team Member Review…
Since we started homeschooling our children 6 years ago, I have been on the look out for books about homeschoolers. Now I am talking about an actual fiction story, as opposed to a non-fiction resource! Well, I am happy to report that I have discovered the Wright on Time series!
In this highly engaging series, written by homeschool mom Lisa M.Cottrell-Bentley, for homeschoolers, you will go on adventures with Nadia, Aidan, and their parents as they travel the 50 states in their family RV. Each novel explores a different state, beginning with Arizona.
Right from the beginning I learned something new! The family rents a cave to explore for the day. Who knew you could do such a thing? As they explore the cave, the kids each have different objectives they are hoping to fulfill. Nadia is into adding to her rocks/minerals collection and Aidan is dying to see some bats.
In the process of exploring they discover a mysterious “device” that none of the family members can identify. I wonder what it might be, and how they will discover it’s purpose? You (and I) will have to continue to read the series as this mystery unfolds beyond just Book 1 (as well as two and three!).
The Wright on Time series is a fun, family friendly read. Each book would make a great unit study for homeschoolers; from learning about each state, to doing the lapbook that was created for them, to learning more about the activities/experiences the family encounters along the way.
In Book 1 this would include the state of Arizona, rocks & minerals and bats. Book 2 takes you on a dinosaur dig in Utah where you can extend your learning by digging deeper into the world of dinosaurs. Book 3 takes you to Wyoming where the family explores the earth, water, and air energies. Then in Book 4, the most recently published book, you will travel to South Dakota where the family encounters a whole lot of motorcycles and learns how a newspaper is printed.
I recommend this book to all families, whether you homeschool or not. This is a great way to travel the United States, and learn so much along the way, without ever having to leave your home!
Heidi is a 34 year old, happily married wife to one self proclaimed computer geek. Through their 13 years of marriage they have added 3 children: Chloe (12), Jayden (8), and Ava (5), as well as 2 dogs: Muffin and Oscar, to the mix. When not totally engrossed in homeschooling, or taxi service for the children Heidi likes to read, blog at Starts At Eight, and chronicle their lives in photos, as well as working at new hand projects like gardening, knitting, and crochet. You can also catch her on Twitter, and Facebook!
Now, for the giveaway! Here is your chance to enter to win all four books! Each book is valued at $12.99 or the set for $51.96. This would make a GREAT addition for any home/library or school! Enter for your chance to win.
I would love to win this set. I LOVE Learning about the history of the states and would love to teach it to my kids. This is my first year homeschooling and can’t afford alot of new stuff. This would really help. I am a mom to 4 kids. Thank you.
This series sounds great for my boys! They are doing Kindergarten and First grade work, and LOVE books!
This would be a great gift for them for the holidays!
And I shared on FaceBook!
How fun! We are covering states right now with my 3rd grader! This would be perfect for him – Thank you for a wonderful giveaway!
My kindergartner and 1st grader would love learning about states.
My first & fifth grader would really enjoy these books (so would I)! RT as well. Thanks & good luck to everyone!
Would love to win this giveaway 🙂
These look amazing!
I shared this, not just to win, but so my friends who are book lovers will check this out for their kids!
My oldest son loves adventure stories… these wold be great as we move from being read to, to reading by his self!!! 🙂
Would loveto win this giveaway.
I would love to to win this giveaway. I am always looking for books and movies that encourage the homeschool lifestyle.
Would love to add these books to our library. We are always on the lookout for more great books, especially about homeschoolers.
I would love to get those books for my kids to read. We love sibling adventures and the added homeschool twist would be great!
Oh this would be great. My sons would love these. I love homeschool cause I get to learn things I didn’t remember or never learned. 🙂
I shared on FB
These books look great. I never really thought about the fact that you don’t find much literature written about homeschooled children. I would love to have these books to share with my kiddos as they get older. It sounds like they will be a great addition to any state study as well.
Shared this with my friends on Facebook.
My son would love to hear these books read – he is really into books and my daughter is just starting to get interested in hearing books read.
We would love these books! They look great!
We just started homes holing this year and I would love to add these wonderful books to my collection of novels.
I’ve heard of these, but never read them. Nice giveaway!
Im so excited to get these books and start a USA study with my 3! They will love it.
I shared on FB too cause I know I have friend’s who should be interested too.
This set looks wonderful! I know we would get years of use from it!
My son and I would love this set. I have a very hard time keeping him interested in our lessons and I really think this would be fun for both of us.
Love reading to the kids anything on history.
These books sound amazing! My girls would love this series. Our family is all about new adventures in traveling and learning together. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win this. We are moving out of the country soon and this would be a great way to keep learning about the states, even when we can’t visit any of them.
I also liked on FB and Tweeted. 🙂
This sounds great. I would love to win.
My crew at the Hill house would love these books and so would I! I want to be a winner!
That sounds like something we would love.
My kids would love this series hope APO address are eligible.
I would absolutely love to win this set and begin reading it with my kiddos! We love to go RVing and I can’t wait to start this reading adventure!
I shared this on Facebook also! :o)
We’re always looking for great homeschool fiction!
I have never heard of these- but they sound great! Thanks for the chance to win!
shared on facebook!
tweeted it, too. Thanks!
I’d love to add this set of books to our State history/geography lessons. So cool!
I would love to win this set !! What a fabulous combination, we are studying states and I am always trying to look for ways to incoorporate reading/history together and it be alot of fun! I love that the author is also a homeschool mom! Thats so impressive! Being our first year homeschooling I am always looking for thrifty things to bring in the home, being a new homeschool family and sacrificing the second income can make it difficult to purchase items like this that we would enjoy having! Thank you for offering these giveaways! We all appreciate the chance to win something
I have been eyeing these books for a while now!
I tweeted about it! @TheseTempTents
I shared on Facebook- Aadel Bussinger
I believe all 3 of my kiddos would love this series, and it would be such a blessing to win!!! I will share with my facebook friends.
I’ve been wanting to purchase these books for awhile. They look great!
I just tweeted about this contest at @interest-led
I just shared about the contest on Facebook.
I actually have all 4 books and we love them! I keep wishing I could afford to buy lots, as I’d love to give them to friends and donate a set to our local library!
What a fun new resource. Thanks for bringing it to our attention and for offering to GIVE it away!
I’ve been hearing about these books for about a year now (though I didn’t know there were four out now)…and was wanting to see about getting them…not only because we will be homeschooling our little boy, but because we plan to be living full-time in our RV in a few years. Would love a chance to win!!
My 9yo daughter and I would love to read these aloud! They sound amazing!
I shared about the contest on FB, too.
Seana
We are a brand new homeschooling family about to start in January with my 3rd grader! This book series sounds so engaging and interesting and will hopefully help foster her love for reading even more!
How wonderful! We would love to add these books to our library 🙂
I’d love to win these books for my avid readers and story listeners!
I would love to win these!
My kids would love to win the set. They like the adventure. We checked the first one out of the library, and it would be nice to have them all at home.
OMG!!! I love these! I have seen them in giveways before so I want to try again to win! We travel a lot because of our jobs (one reason we love homeschooling – our kids go too!), so we love this since it really relates to our kids lives in a sense!
Thanks for the chance!
I shared on fB!
These look great! I would love to win!
These books look great! I would love to win them and share them with my boys.
I just shared this on my Facebook Wall.
I just tweeted about the giveaway. https://twitter.com/#!/HollyPixley/status/146805393023180801
This sounds like such a cool series. We would love to read it.
These sound awesome! Love it!
Shared on Facebook!
Tweeted!
The author of this book used to attend a homeschool group we belong to in Tucson, AZ. She’s a really smart, fun woman and I would love to read her books. With a newly adopted son, our finances are pretty tight so we won’t be purchasing these at this time. But it would be great to win them, read them, and then share them with others in our homeschool group.
Wow!
I would love to win these books!!
We homeschool, and we RV, and we read 🙂
Please enter my name, and thanks for telling us about these books – I’ll be buying them if we don’t win them!
I would love to win. These books look like so much fun and I bet my girls would love them.
My children are voracious readers and love learning about different places! This set of books would be very welcome in our home library!
I would love to win these books for my daughter!
I would love to win the set!
I would love to win this… We learn best by reading aloud in our family… We enjoy adding books to our homeschool collection!! Would really love these!! kevinkaylaarrowood123 at yahoo dot com
My boys, who are 10& 8 believe they may be the only homeschool kids in the world!!! LOL. How fascinating it would be for the learn from these amazing books about homeschool kids. I would be blessed to win this gift.. Thanks for the opportunity.
I shared on FB… kevinkaylaarrowood123 at yahoo dot com
I also shared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TheArrowoodZoo/status/147859895939637248
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Someone in my social group mentioned these books recently but u haven’t had time to search for them! My 9 year old is bored with his social studies do I was thinking about starting a study of the 50 states…this would spark an interest maybe!
My daughter and I would have so much fun reading these books during our homeschool day!!!
I would love to get these for my 7 year old son! He loves science and exploring so these would be fantastic for him! We will also be homeschooling him starting in January, so I am sure he would be thrilled to read about other homeschooling children 🙂
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Shared on facebook… TWICE!!
Can’t wait to see who the lucky winner is!!!!
These sound like a great series. Fun with education tucked inside. 😀
I have a first grade daughter who is still grasping the concept of the different states that make up the United States. We are going to visit Arizona and Utah next year, so what an amazing start these books would be to get her familiar with those different states! I love how the books covers different topics (for example she loves bats so the arizona book would be very interesting for her!) II am just thinking about the fun lapbooks we can do based on these books!
These sound like great books!
My bookworm boys would LOVE these books!
My boys would love reading about the adventures of this homeschooling family. It would be awesome to learn new things about all the states and do little unit studies :0).
I have been looking for books like these for a long time!