Thanks all!

Looking for the holy grail of algebra books I guess. We have tried Saxon (not enough time on the new topic) and are now in Jacobs (not enough time on review). I suppose I could reorganize either of the books to suit our needs, but don't really want to spend the time doing that if something exists already. The one thing from Saxon we like was that it gave the lesson number for the review problems so we could easily flip back to it. Any ideas?

Just finished The War that Saved My Life and The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and we are almost done with Wonder. All huge hits. Just started A Christmas Carol.

I think I am going to combine Walch Power Basics Government with Crash Course videos. Easy, breezy, done!

One of my kids used Saxon Algebra 1/2, the other is currently using Math Mammoth 7. I really wanted to use AOPS but we all looked at it and said "Gah, too many words!".

Yes! The boys and I love it. This is the first scripted show we have watched in ages.

My boy is 12. Really hoping to get to Tuscon--looking for cheap flights this week. :) We have the National Selection next weekend that got postponed from Hurricane Matthew.

My 8th grader is doing Runkle's World Physical Geography as an earth science class this year. Not too time consuming, and includes material he probably won't study again in high school. A workbook option I have heard mentioned a few times is Science By The Grade. I just ordered the 7th grade one for my 12 year old. HTH!

My 7th grader this year is using Oak Meadow Earth Science, my 7th grader last year used RSO Biology 2. Totally different kinds of students, happy with both choices so far.

Changes in blue, didn't stray too far from our original plans.

I read both with my almost 12 year old DS. I MAY have been the one who recommended it :)

Scrabble, Backgammon, Blokus

The Wednesday Wars and Okay for Now, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and Bomb were recent hits here.

I will be using LL8 and Cover Story for 8th grade LA. We will skip some of the writing assignments in LL8.

Graph paper composition books!!

We are doing Lightning Lit 8 but subbing Animal Farm for The Hobbit since he already read that. We always have 1 or 2 additional read alouds going also, not sure what that list will be.

We are reading The Boys in the Boat (young reader edition) to go along with our Olympic fever. 11 year old and I are also reading Okay for Now, and 13 year old is reading newest Rick Riordan about Apollo. OP: We really liked Long Walk to Water.

So, I think we are going to do World Geography next. We just finished up SOTW 3 and 4 this year so he doesn't want to get right back into modern history. We actually started the early American history already and it is going well. If we do just keep going with American, I will use the second 2 Hakim concise books with the 2nd US History Detective. So... 9th: world geography 10th: World History 11th: American History/Government 12th ?? HTH!!

We skipped that one (Bookshark 5).

We are just getting started with the first one, combined with the concise History of US books. Looks good so far!

We loved the 2 Masterminds books!

The London Eye Mystery might work. My picky DS loved it. Or some of the Stuart Gibbs books, those have all been hits here.

I have OM7 (except math) to use for my younger boy in the fall, and I think it looks great. I like the variety of assignments in the history book and the lit selections seem like they will hold his interest. I am hoping to stick with OM through high school with this kid, as he is an athlete, and we needed to streamline and simplify his schooling. I think this will cover all the bases in an engaging way without too much extra fluff. Having said that, if we do stick with OM, I may sub out lit for 8, since I was not crazy about the chosen books.

Yes. I am using this now after several writing curricula failed miserably. Also look at The Paragraph Book (I think there are 4 of them) by the same publisher.