Seventy-three years ago, on September 1, German tanks rolled across the border of Poland and the conflict that soon became known as World War II officially began. The literature is vast, even for children. The weight is vast, too, with a level of destruction and death that we find hard to imagine. War stories aren’t [...]
Okay for Now, by Gary Schmidt. Clarion, 2011, 368 page. Age/interest level: 12-up Gary Schmidt’s Newbery-honor-winning The Wednesday Wars featured 13-year-old Holling Hoodhood, a child of the mid-1960s and the only Presbyterian in a private school filled with Catholics and Jews. Holling sits out Wednesday afternoons, when all the other kids are at catechism or [...]
“There ain’t no room for the hopeless sinner, Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own soul. Have pity on those whose choices grow thinner, There ain’t no hiding place from the Kingdom’s throne.” —Curtis Mayfield, People Get Ready When I was in sixth grade, my English teacher was one of the kindest [...]
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