by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
More info coming but get it and read it!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Get ready for May
Chickens in the Headlights...A Novel by Matthew Buckley
What are a mother and father to do with SEVEN rambunctious boys under the age of eleven? For the Buckleys, the days are filled with running, yelling, food, wrestling, and burping. Every night culminates in an epic bedtime battle. When the school year ends, however, Mom and Dad decide to harness some of their boys' apparently inexhaustible energy and buy some goats and chickens for them to take care of. While they are initially thrilled with the "responsibility," the boys soon learn that it's far tougher than it appears.
Hope you like and can get a good laugh. This is a great book to read to your kids. Contact April if you want to start the book then we could just pass it along. The library has only have one copy of the book. April has two books and if we start right now we should have time for everyone to have a chance to read.
What are a mother and father to do with SEVEN rambunctious boys under the age of eleven? For the Buckleys, the days are filled with running, yelling, food, wrestling, and burping. Every night culminates in an epic bedtime battle. When the school year ends, however, Mom and Dad decide to harness some of their boys' apparently inexhaustible energy and buy some goats and chickens for them to take care of. While they are initially thrilled with the "responsibility," the boys soon learn that it's far tougher than it appears.
Hope you like and can get a good laugh. This is a great book to read to your kids. Contact April if you want to start the book then we could just pass it along. The library has only have one copy of the book. April has two books and if we start right now we should have time for everyone to have a chance to read.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Our April book will be at Janae Ambrose's home and is Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.
De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay's 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia's conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah's trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Girl with a Pearl Earring
We're reading Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier for March's book club at Wendy's.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Stargirl - Thursday, Feb. 11
Come discuss Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli at my house - 5461 Fox Run Way, Meridian, in the Paramount subdivision. If you haven't read it, here's the synopsis.
Carpool - and I'm making creme brulee french toast. You won't want to miss it.
Carpool - and I'm making creme brulee french toast. You won't want to miss it.
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