"As career educators, we've watched the decline of higher-level literacy skills among kids, teens and young adults in real time. We've built Nifty Lit Club to build the skills young people need to read widely, with curiosity, across genres and centuries.

We've also designed these courses to deliver the kind of homeschool and extracurricular programs we look for as parents: high value programs that deliver meaningful content and build real skills, taught by people who know what they're doing; affordable, flexible, fun.

'People who know what they're doing' are the most important pieces of the puzzle, and the hardest to find. We design and facilitate every Nifty course ourselves."

- Nifty co-founders Darren and Suzanne Alexander.

➜ Read more about why we launched these courses and what we offer to your student:

We offer a series of month-long courses throughout the year.

2026 Mini Course Schedule

October 1-31: Spooky Gothic short stories from the 1800s - available for enrollment now.

November 1-30: Early Canadian Short Stories. Ages 12+. Enrollment begins: October 5.

November 20-December 20: Deep dive into one of the greatest novels ever written, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Enrollment begins: November 5.