AboutWith or Without You by Domenica Ruta
Trashy North Shore girls unite! Domenica Ruta’s gritty and dark-witted memoir of growing up in Danvers, MA with a charismatic and destructive drug addicted mother takes you on a wild ride. This a story that either takes you into a different world or is a story that you know very well, and you are proud [...]
Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy By John Wood
Facts About Education Around the World (Dosomething.org) One in five adults in the developing world — almost 862 million people — cannot read or write. Most illiterate persons are female. In more than 20 developing nations, illiteracy rates amongst women exceed 70%. As much as 115 million children of primary school age are not enrolled [...]
Staff Pick: Bessie Coleman by P. Hart, M. Cosgrove
Who is Bessie Coleman? If you don’t know, you definitely need to check out this biography. She was the first black woman pilot. She earned her pilot’s licence a whole year before that other famous flier: Amelia Earhart! So, if you’d like to read a biography about overcoming adversity and flying high, Bessie Coleman’s is [...]
Book Review: Following Atticus by Tom Ryan
Don’t miss this one.— In Following Atticus, Tom Ryan is leading a good enough life in a city he loves, Newburyport, Massachusetts. He is owner and staff of the “Undertoad, a whistle blowing, truth telling newspaper. Then Maxwell Garrison Gillis opens up Tom’s life and Atticus Maxwell Finch carries it upward. Both change his [...]
Book Review : “More Than Human”
The first time I opened the book “More Than Human” by renowned photographer Tim Flash and author Lewis Blackwell, I got hooked right away. The first picture I came across was of bats, and my reaction was “I never saw bats looking that beautiful”. They looked like they were in a photography studio posing for [...]
