What do you do when your whole family is suddenly gone? How do you keep going, and how do you find any meaning in life? Even worse, how do you figure this out when you’re only 12 years old? This is the premise of Dear Edward, the best-selling book by Ann Napolitano. Young Eddie is…
At the start of this book, Matt Rose is in a Humvee in eastern Baghdad, not sure who he is or what he’s doing there. Five months later, Rose is back in Missoula, Montana, his hometown, discharged from the military with a traumatic brain injury and still trying to piece together memories of his past…
Becky and Nate get together for the 5th year in a row to talk about last night’s Academy Awards Ceremony. They discuss some of the biggest surprises and their favorite moments, plus recommend a few 2019 films you may have missed.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Freshman Boady Sanden’s life at St. Ignatius High is miserable and it only gets worse when, one day in the school cafeteria, he trips one of the school bullies and thwarts his scheme to dump…
I can’t remember a book in recent memory that has generated as much praise and uproar as American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Before the novel’s publication, it received rave reviews from the major book review publications, including Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist. Famous authors praised the work, including Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Ann…
