Sonlight's lesson plans, study guides and teacher helps saved our homeschool. After our first year of patchworking together a curriculum, my husband said, 'If this is what homeschooling will require of you, we won't be continuing!' Then a friend introduced us to Sonlight while we were on furlough from the mission field and we fell in love with it. No more patchwork – Sonlight saved my sanity! Three high school graduates later (with three more to go), we're STILL loving Sonlight. In the family's twelfth year of Sonlight study, Deborah (13, Core G) enjoys a good read in the strawberry patch.

Sara L of Grandview, MO writes: "We just completed our very first year of homeschooling! I'm so grateful we found Sonlight. It brings me to tears of gratitude when I think about all the special moments we had learning together. Even our 5-year-old who was not required to participate in school this year wanted to jump in and learn along with us." When she asked her children to choose a book for a photo to commemorate their first year of Sonlight, they voted unanimously for Homer Price. Micah (8) and Selah (7) used Sonlight B this year while their younger siblings joyfully listened in and tagged along.

"One of the greatest gifts Sonlight has given us is the books that light up our day," writes Mandi V of Lynchburg, VA. "Our backyard was transformed into the forest in Kildee House, our house was an Alaskan schoolroom during The Year of Miss Agnes, and so on. We don't have to travel far to enjoy the living books Sonlight provides. By the end of our first year, I knew homeschooling was the best decision we'd made, and that we'd be a Sonlight family for a very long time." In this picture, Jeremiah (8), Jadon (6), and Ezekiel (3) think how their Animal Poetry can come alive.