Encouraging Summer Reading

July 29, 2010

Keeping kids reading during the summer is important. We want to encourage our kids to read and to enjoy it, but we need to strike a fine balance between making it optional and making it mandatory. The following tips come to us via ADDitude Magazine. While these tips are aimed… (Keep reading)

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I Am the Messenger (Markus Zusak)

July 27, 2010

Nineteen-year-old Ed Kennedy, a cabdriver in Australia, almost accidentally stops a bank robbery and nabs the would-be thief, thus achieving his Warholian fifteen minutes of fame. This would seem to be the high point in a life of mediocrity, but then a series of playing cards begin arriving in Ed’s… (Keep reading)

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School Supplies on the Cheap

July 26, 2010

Summer is in full swing, so you know what that means…yup, it’s time to stock up on school supplies. I don’t have anything against those big-box office supply stores, except that they can be pretty expensive. If I’m going to spend a lot of money there, it should be for… (Keep reading)

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