If you’re a bibliophile, you’ll want to know about these great books. You will not be able to put down The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Told in three voices (2 black maids and 1 white woman in the South during the 60’s), the story is about emotional emancipation in the midst of real physical enslavement. […]
Pretty Amazing
Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me is being touted as a YA (young adult) novel, and I’m not sure why. I think it would be appropriate for precocious fourth and fifth graders, too. In fact, Monica Edinger at Educating Alice read it to her fourth grade class (an early edition of it, because it just […]