A separate warning: one of my friends mentioned El knowing or narrating a few things in this book that seemed outside of her scope of knowledge. I didn’t notice those as I was reading—I was quite caught up in the story and may have missed them. You might stub your toe on them th...
There's something undeniably enchanting about the trope of best friends falling in love. It's the warmth of familiarity, the depth of knowing each...
Discover how their childhood dreams and experiences influenced their adult achievements. This book will help the next generation to chase their own dream . . . whatever it may be. March 2020 YA Choice: How Not to Lose It by Anna Williamson The go-to mental health guide for kids! Exam stre...
Summary:This autobiographical novel is based on the author’s experiences in Beijing in the 1960s and representative of a trend of the last two decades among both children’s and adult novelists to write about childhood memories. The story begins with the narrator becoming a middle-school student...
Watch an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's classic American short story “My Old Man”In Hemingway's tale “My Old Man,” the young narrator wrestles with contradictory impulses: to preserve his childhood illusions or to face unpleasant truths. The film was produced in 1970 by Encyclopædia ...
In 2011 Ferrante, already a well-regarded international author, surged to even greater celebrity with the publication ofL’amica geniale(My Brilliant Friend). It was the first of four novels that follow narrator Elena Greco and her childhood friend—and sometime rival—Lila Cerullo. The two int...
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Book Summary: While mourning the loss of her grandfather and spreading his ashes at his childhood home in Ireland, Anne Gallagher time travels into the past: 1921 Ireland on the verge of war. She soon connects with Dr. Thomas Smith and joins him in the struggle for Ireland’s independence....
Jones, David
In early August, acorns are already falling. I stop to breathe and think about how Eddie and I would bring the boys here when they were toddlers. They loved picking up acorns and putting them in their wagon. The day of Calvin’s fateful but life-saving MRI, we did this walk to distra...