We discovered the books of author Jodi Picoult in my house when one of them appeared on the school reading list for the summer. The teens and I were immediately hooked, and […]
They love to tell youStay inside the linesBut something’s betterOn the other side– John Mayer, No Such Thing For the eleventh grade summer reading this year, the kids were assigned the book […]
As the mother of a child on the autism spectrum, I knew House Rules would be a hard book for me and I was right. Along with being a compelling story and […]
It’s difficult enough being a parent with all of the usual worries we have about our kids. It seems that you can’t turn on the television without seeing something about picking up […]
In trying to keep an open avenue of communication with my own children, we have always tackled tough topics and I have had to answer some difficult questions from them. A topic […]
Jodi Picoult is an author that likes to tackle the hard questions in our society in her novels. From school shootings to individual rights to child molestation, she seems unafraid to tackle […]
After my son Kyle Ferriera van Leer declared his major in Egyptology at Yale in 2010, he mentioned the Book of Two Ways in passing. Without knowing a thing about it, I […]
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