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Kim Stagliano, author of “All I Can Handle: I’m No Mother Theresa” will sign copies of her book July 23 at the Learned Owl bookstore, 204 N. Main St. in Hudson. For details, call 330-653-2252. In All I Can Handle: I’m No Mother Teresa, mother, wife and down-to-earth human beingKim Stagliano tells the inspiring, heartwarming, and utterly hysterical story of [...]
Jerk, California, by Jonathan Friesen. 2009 Schneider Family Book Award. When Sam, who has Tourette’s Syndrome, graduates from high school, he also closes a painful chapter in his life, although he doesn’t realize it at first. Same grew up, hating himself for his condition, hated by his stepfather and taunted in school. Sam is most [...]
Waiting for Normal, by Leslie Connor. 2009 Schneider Family Book Award. There were many things to like about the book. The first is the heroine, 12-year-old Addie, a sweet, insecure girl who is living with her mother, hoping for a normal life despite the mother’s personality. It’s bittersweet in thiscoming-of-age tale when Addie realizes she [...]
Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson. 2009 ALSC Noteable Children’s Book Award. Another great work of historical fiction, this one taking place right before and during the Revolutionary War. Isabel, after her former mistress dies, looks forward to being freed. However, through some shady dealing, Isabel and her younger sister Ruth are sold to cruel owners. [...]
These books were among those chosen in 2009 for the Notable Books for a Global Society, sponsored by the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association. The list is presented at the annual Virginia Hamilton Conference. T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte. Tiergartenstrasse 4, or T4, was the edict [...]