Christian Fiction for Music Lovers

🎶  Because You're Mine (suspense)... This is a creepy standalone about an Irish singer whose husband was just killed. It's quite clear that she's in danger and it's a great mystery to unravel. It's also set in the Carolinas which always feels so summer-y to me!
🎶 Bespoke (Christmas, historical)... This one is very short, readable in one cozy afternoon, and follows the daughter of a famous secret symphony composer. Fans of classical music will appreciate this one.
🎶 Beyond Ivy Walls (historical)... Piano fans, this Beauty and the Beast retelling set in 1903 Iowa is for you!
🎶 A Carol for Christmas (Christmas)... This one is heavily focused on a young marriage and its struggles but the young wife is a guitar player and we see that quite a lot, too.
🎶 Long Way Gone (general fiction)... This Prodigal Son retelling is going to be a bit too gritty for dome of you but it follows a young musician who leaves home to make it big. This one is filled with talk of guitar and singing.
🎶 Love and a Little White Lie (romance)... Although I'm not a romance fan I really enjoyed this one. Our female protagonist is agnostic but accepts a clerical position at her aunt's church in an attempt to start over. Then she meets the church guitarist and her aunt's landscaper. Watching her decide who she belonged with was more fun than I expected.
🎶 The Roads We Follow (romance)... Again, not typically a romance fan... but very typically a Nicole Deese fan! I loved this story of a young woman her sisters road tripping with their famous singer mother while everyone has so much going on in the background!
🎶 Roots of Wood and Stone (historical, time slip)... This one is for jazz fans which I do believe is a rarity. Our heroine is uncovering her family history and we're slipping into that past but she happens to make jazz music on the side just for fun.
🎶 The Shunning (Amish)... This Amish fiction, the first in a trilogy, is not about music (it's about a young Amish woman finding out she's adopted snd searching for her birth mother) but talks a fair bit about guitar-playing.
🎶 Wedding Dress Christmas (Christmas)... A magical wedding dress, the owner of the wedding dress shop, and a hunky country music star all come together in this Christmas story I really enjoyed. This story would work fine as a standalone but will mean more if you've read The Wedding Dress (which I also love). 

Also, Jesus loves you ❤️ 

2026-2027 Curriculum Choices!

It's almost time to start a new school year and we are so excited! These are the things we'll be using this year.

*I make my own language arts courses after reading The Brave Learner and Wild + Free. Some (but not all) resources I like to utilize: a journal for each kid to write in on Mondays (typically about their weekends, interesting prompts when the weekend wasn't very write-able), spelling, TGTB Simply Spelling and online language arts, English Grammar Workbook, Evan Mor Writing books, Greek & Latin Roots, buddy reads, read-alouds, and independent reading, various writing projects of my choosing

*All four big kids participate in a local extracurricular activity as well. 

* Morning Basket goodies: Vocabulary cards // Soaring Through the Bible // 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication // Keep Thy Heart Bible study 

* My husband also does computer and shop classes with the kids and I do cooking lessons with them. 

8th grade: Math // Homemade language arts // Chemistry + my own expansions // Health + nutrition review // History // Homemade Geography // Spanish + Butterfly Spanish // Teach Homeschool Finance // Drawing 1 // Music Appreciation 2 // Guitar 

6th grade: Handwriting // Math // Homemade language arts // Chemistry + my own expansions // Health + nutrition review // History // Homemade Geography // Spanish + Butterfly Spanish // Drawing 1 // Music Appreciation 2 // Nature notebook // Creative Writing // Typing 2 // YouTube paint tutorials

5th grade: Handwriting // Math // Homemade language arts // Biology // Health + nutrition review // History // Homemade Geography // Spanish + Butterfly Spanish // Drawing 1 // Music Appreciation 2 // Creative Writing // Typing 2 // YouTube paint tutorials

3rd grade: Handwriting  // Math // Homemade language arts // Biology // Health + nutrition review // History // Homemade Geography // Spanish + Butterfly Spanish // Music Appreciation 1 // Creative Writing // Typing 1 // A Hive of Busy Bees 

It's inevitable that I find new material and read-aloud as the year goes on but this is the general idea! 

Bookish links- August 2026

August New releases I'm excited about: The Heiress and the Woodsman 

Summer reading recommendations for your kids 

Ideas for homeschooling through chronic illness 

I got some great recommendations for my son on this Reddit list of Christian fiction recommendations for men 

I've got a still-growing men's fiction list of my own, too! 

Please consider sharing our homeschool finance curriculum with any homeschool parents you know! The intro course, which we believe will make a huge difference for many young adults, is completely free! You can share it with non-homeschool families with teens, too 💙 

Art lovers, this site pairs art with scripture to help bring your reading to life visually! Pretty cool! 

One of the ladies in my bookclub sent us this no-spice romance book database reel for all you romance fans! 

The best Christian books for mums 

Books build what screens can not: Benefits of reading aloud to kids even after they can read 

This is fascinating- writing out the Bible by hand! 

3 gripping historical spy novels to keep you guessing 

These fast forwarded kind of paintings always make it look so quick and easy! 

Bookish art I love- Storybook // Meadow // Seaside // Soft Hour // Under the Apricot Tree // Summer in the Forest // Picnic 

We watched the new Little House on the Prairie as a family last month and all loved it! We're happy it's already been renewed for season 2! 

Emily Lex recommends this free class on Ephesians 

We use a different handwriting curriculum but how fun are these literature-themed handwriting books? 

This was a fun list of books by and about homeschoolers! 

I know I'm late to the party but we finally watched David as our family movie last night and it was so good! 

Non-book things I loved in July: 4th of July shenanigans // Sheet pan gnocchi (we used crumbled pumfu as the sausage... I paired it with mushrooms and steamed cashew cream kale. Everyone loved it, but two daughters asked for smaller veggies next time) // Vacation Bible School excitement // giggles and shrieks of delight from running through the sprinklers and playing at the water table in the yard // air conditioning// learning about the Story of Nicholas Winton rescuing over 660 children in the Holocaust and telling no one. When his wife found the scrapbook, this happened 💙

4 New Releases

Blades of Eternity #2: The Curse of the Black Saber* (Christian, middle grade, fantasy, fiction)... This second book was just as engaging as the first. I'm truly not a fantasy fan I'm the slightest but most of my children are so here I am! There is some really great imagery on this one but of course parents should be aware of standard fantasy battles (good vs evil) as with most fantasy. I like this series more for the upper middle grade-middle school group. This series is a new smash hit for my oldest and we'll eagerly await book 3. 

The Heart Who Needed a Friend* (Christian, fiction, picture book)... This was a cute little wintertime picture book focused on friendship from a Biblical perspective. I thought it was sweet and I know it'll be a fun read for a lot of families!

 

Worthy* (Christian, nonfiction, Bible study material)... This is a Bible study commentary on Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon. It's exactly what I want in a Bible study! I want to understand the Bible, not just hear about how this relates to your sister's husband's cousin. Right at the beginning of each section is a Bible Background Check to help me understand genre, key verses, author, audience, historical context, and cross-referencing. I have been loving this and will absolutely be saving it forever for my family and I to reference down the road.

Your Life Signature* (Christian, nonfiction)... What a book! This book made me think and reflect so much, which I always love. The author uses a lot of imagery and illustration to express his points so it was really jam-packed with gold that led me down some wonderful paths, my favorite being the story of Sir Nicholas Winton in the beginning or middle of the book. I have thought a lot about my purpose for years and this book only made me that much more excited to see what else God has planned for me and my one little life.

* I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Christian Books for 6th Graders

100 Days of Adventure (nonfiction) 
The Aedyn Chronicles (fiction, fantasy) 
Andi Unexpected (fiction, mystery) 
Arcade series (fiction) 

Beyond the Orphan Train series (historical fiction) 
The Chronicles of Narnia (fiction, fantasy) 
Dream Traveler's Quest series (fiction, fantasy) 
Emma's Secret (historical fiction) 
A Girl After God's Own Heart (nonfiction) 
Girls of Harbor View: Girl Power // Mystery Bus (fiction) 
Heaven for Kids (nonfiction) 
Indescribable Atlas Adventures (nonfiction) 
The Inkwell Chronicles (fiction, fantasy) 
Jones and Parker Case Files (fiction) 
The Key House (fiction) 
Marvel at the Moon (nonfiction) 
No Place Like Holmes (fiction, mystery) 
Princess in Camo series (fiction) 
The Promise and the Light (Biblical fiction) 
The Restorationists series (fiction, fantasy) 
Road Trip Rescue series (fiction) 
Rosa Takes a Chance (historical fiction) 
Sleuth Family Robinson (fiction, graphic novel) 
The Songs of a Warrior (Biblical fiction) 
The Sower's Secret (fiction) 
Sugar Creek Gang series (fiction) 

They Found Dragons series (fiction, fantasy, sci-fi) 

Viking Quest series (historical fiction)