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A Brave Writer's Life in Brief

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Turn Living Literature into Unit Studies

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Brave Writer’s Literature Singles are more than grammar guides—they are literary treasure boxes filled with ideas to expand a novel into an engaging unit study for the whole family.

Read a book, talk about its grammar, punctuation, spelling, and literary devices. Discuss the stories with comprehension questions and then throw a party to celebrate!

Want inspiration for unit study planning?

Check out the curated themed collections below to see how you can mix and match levels to meet the needs of your family. We share resources from our Poetry Teatime website (FREE!) and our Brave Learner Home membership community to give you some ideas.


Slide into Baseball

  • Spectacular Sports (Quill)
  • Painting the Game (Dart)
  • The Boy Who Saved Baseball (Arrow)
  • The Wednesday Wars (Boomerang)

Combine with

  • Poetry Prompt: Sports Poetry  
  • Brave Learner Home One Thing Unit Study: Sports

Step into History (Black History edition)

  • Elijah of Buxton or Freewater (Arrows)
  • Unbound (Boomerang) 
  • The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Slingshot)

Combine with

  • Brave Learner Home Master Classes:
    • Teaching Hard History
    • Learning Through Historical Fiction

Step into History (Spies edition) 

  • Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective (Dart)
  • The Bletchley Riddle (Arrow)
  • The Woman All Spies Fear (Boomerang)

Combine with

  • Espionage Themed Teatime
  • Brave Learner Home
    • One Thing Unit Studies: Secret Codes
    • Master Class: Bringing History to Life

Dive Under the Sea

  • Under the Sea: Sea Mammals (Quill)
  • Odder (Dart)
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Boomerang)

Combine with

  • Underwater Themed Teatime 
  • Brave Learner Home One Thing Unit Study: Ocean Exploration

Space Out

  • Space: Planets (Quill)
  • The Lion of Mars or A Rover’s Story (Arrows) 
  • Hidden Figures (Young Readers Edition) (Boomerang)

Combine with

  • Astronomy Themed Teatime
  • Brave Learner Home One Thing Unit Studies:
    • The Solar System
    • Telescopes 
    • The Moon
    • Mars

Inventions & Inventors

  • Maya and the Robot (Dart)
  • A Rover’s Story or The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (Arrows)
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition) (Boomerang)

Combine with

  • Science Themed Teatime
  • Brave Learner Home One Thing Unit Study: Inventions
  • Movie Wednesday: Back to the Future 

Planning Tool

We’ve also put together a spreadsheet tool that helps you see all of our literature singles at once. You can sort by historical era, literary device, author, and more!


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