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Kids are naturally curious and have an innate desire to make sense of the world around them. In other words – they want to learn. Have you ever seen your child out digging in the ground, trying to pull earthworms out of the dirt? And then that same child proudly shows you all the segments and explains how the worm wiggles to move? She is simply trying to put the pieces together to make sense of what’s around her.

Schools, however, tend to take the joy out of learning. They take fascinating scientific concepts and turn them into a dull, boring, repetetive sets of worksheets. Kids want to discover and explore their world, but schools can make that difficult and can strip the joy from learning.

For these reasons, many families have opted to leavea the “traditional” educational route and have chosen to take their children out to see the world instead. Some families travel in RVs; others in planes, trains, or buses. Some families travel on bicycle. However they get around, roadschooling families take advantage of their children’s natural ability and desire to learn by using the world as their classroom. They visit historical and scientific sites that arouse that sense of curiosity in their children. Through it all, roadschooled children learn to love learning.

As families travel throughout the world visiting historical sites, children gain an understanding of what life was like on the fields of Gettysburg or in ancient Mayan cities. They visit museums and national parks and natural wonders. Roadschooling parents encourage their children to learn from everything surrounding them and the kids learn in a natural learning environment.

Is there any better way of learning than doing? When children see, smell, hear, and touch their lessons, they truly learn. For many families, that is the only way to learn!

Learn more about roadschooling your children. Stop by Nancy Sathre-Vogel’s site where you can find out all about homeschooling while traveling.

The second book in a new Western series by Clive Cussler, “one of the greatest adventure novelists of our time” (imdb), The Wrecker represents the continuation of Cussler’s entry into the classic American genre of Wild West fiction. Who knows, maybe it will turn into his most popular series yet.

A detective by the name of Isaac Bell represents the main character in The Wrecker. Bell is as athletic and fearless as James Bond and as intellectually brilliant as Sherlock Holmes.

As an independently wealthy heir to a Boston banking family, Isaac Bell pursues his detective investigations with a fury born out of an obsession and passion for justice rather than the need to make a living.

In The Wrecker, Isaac Bell gets hired to stop a saboteur targeting the Southern Pacific Railroad, threatening to financially “derail” the mega-corporation as they push to build a new and expensive cutoff track that will greatly decrease traveling time between the northern and southern portions of the American West Coast.

Unbeknownst to all until the very end of the book, The Wrecker is a regular member of the inner circles of Southern Pacific Railroad president Osgood Hennessy, even courting the railroad baron’s “unspeakably beautiful” daughter Lillian. He’s a formidable adversary, perhaps as brilliant as Isaac Bell himself.

The goal of the Wrecker is to gain control of the entire United States railroad system, at a time in history when railroad barons such as Harriman and Vanderbilt were the wealthiest men in America, beginning with the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Notorious as an avid automobile enthusiast, one reason why Clive Cussler may have picked the early 1900’s as the setting for his new series may well have been to give him an opportunity to write about car chases in classic automobiles from the turn of the last century.

The Wrecker features the 1907 Model 35 Thomas Flyer, winner of the 1908 New York to Paris race, as well as a Packard Grey Wolf, a Bugatti Type 41 Royale, and Isaac Bell’s own Locomobile.

Best-selling author Clive Cussler nurtures a personal passion for the sea, and has previously created three successful action novel series that all revolve in and around water. However, residing in Colorado, just about as far from the sea as you can get, Cussler also appears to love the mountains and the rugged terrain of the American West.

This “second” love of Clive Cussler shines through in his new Isaac Bell series in a way that will likely reinvigorate many old Wild West enthusiasts as well as give birth to a whole new generation of Western lovers. The book is a highly recommended read.

Britt Hellman resides in North Carolina with her husband and three sons, where she works as a professional copywriter. She writes book review as a hobby. Visit her site to order The Wrecker, or the latest Dirk Pitt adventure, Arctic Drift, Clive Cussler.

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The Great Barrier Reef is listed as a World Heritage area, which means that it must maintained untouched (for the most part) by man. The Reef is the home to many of the most diverse aquatic life in the worlds. Some of these sea animals include the Black Marlin, with such wonderful colors you will not believe your eyes. With the amazing colors, the coral in the Reef brings wonderful natural beauty to this already beautiful setting.

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