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After reading “P.S. I Love You“, I wanted to try something lighter by Cecilia Ahern and totally enjoyed this book!
“Where Rainbows End” is about two childhood friends, Rosie and Alex, who grow up in Ireland. The book starts out with these two naughty children who grow up into cheeky teens and then young adults [...]
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“Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” was in the reading list of the young girl from the international school I was coaching for English.
To prepare for our book discussions, I looked for the book in the library and totally enjoyed it
Margaret Simon is a 12 year old girl (sixth grade) whose [...]
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Joey Pigza is a “wired” young boy who suffers from attention-deficit-hyperactive-disorder (ADHD) but what’s interesting is that he’s actually the most normal person in his CRAZY family!
First, his parents are divorced but his erratic, reckless motorbike-riding father doesn’t seem to want to move on because he stalks his ex-wife and her new boyfriend frequently.
His mother [...]
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If you’re shopping for a nice, thoughtful present for a pre-teen or teenage girl, check out “Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty” because it’s a *great* book for teenage girls.
“Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty: Everything You Need to Look Pretty, Natural, Sexy and Awesome” is a handy reference of about 200 pages with:
glossy pictures of teenage girls [...]
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Written by the same author of “Madame Doubtfire” (Mrs. Doubtfire movie starring Robin Williams), the book begins with a noisy class of pre-teen boys in the UK on their usual day of traumatising their form teacher, Mr Cartright.
This day, the teacher is reviewing their project options for the Science Fair.
Naturally, the boys all want past [...]
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If you have a son and are trying to gain a better understanding of what the average young man thinks or worries about, you HAVE to read this book.
If you work with young people, whether as a teacher, a coach, a tutor or simply trying to understand young people, you HAVE to read this [...]
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“Da Chen was born in China in 1962. The grandson of a landlord, he found that he and his family were outcasts in Communist China. Da was an excellent student until a teacher told him that because of his family’s ‘crimes’, he could never be more than a poor farmer…
China’s Cultural Revolution took place from [...]
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I first read the condensed version of this book in the “Book in Review” section of Reader’s Digest. A couple of years later, I stumbled upon the hardcover copy and bought it. The book, unfortunately, stayed in my box a couple more years.
I found the book again while in the university and couldn’t get past [...]
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