From a friend....Good luck, everyone. I think you will enjoy Sharon's work.
Sharon Ledwith: I came. I saw. I wrote.: Let’s get the Holiday Season started with a Goodre...: As the holiday season encroaches, I thought I’d set up a Goodreads giveaway for anyone who hasn’t had a chance to read the first book in my ...
Friday, November 15, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Easy Christmas Shopping.....don't let them tell you that they are not readers.
BUY A BOOK FOR EVERYONE.... "I'm not really a reader." Oh, yeah. Well, at our house, everyone gets a book as part of their Christmas joy. When our daughter married, her husband was not a reader. When our son married, his wife was a'somewhat' reader. For the first few years our son-in-law received sports books. I don't know if he ever looked at them. For the first few years our daughter-in-law received cook books which I know she looked at. Then she became easier to buy for. Now she is one of the easy ones; she reads a lot and receives not just cookbooks anymore. Can't wait to give her this year's find. Our son-in-law will now receive and read gardening, sports, and some history books. I think we've made progress. Love my in-law children.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Anna Casey's Place in the World....She deserves a special place.
Anna Casey's Place in the World by Adrian Fogelin is a soft and gentle story about a subject that is often times not a soft and gently subject---foster care and the reasons for the need for it. This book is not harsh, does not point fingers. It simply tells a lovely story that is sometimes funny, sometimes sad.
The two main characters, unrelated, have been placed in the foster care of a first time foster mother. A recipe for disaster? No, here it becomes a recipe for caring and sharing and helping each other and the new foster mother through the steps of parenting.
Ed is ten, a frightened little boy who tries without much success to hide his feelings through faked toughness and indifference. Anna Casey is an adventurous, inquisitive twelve-year-old who desperately wants a place to belong. Anna has lived with many different family members, until at last, she has run out of relatives. Ed has lived with his very irresponsible mother and whoever the current boyfriend might be. Ms. Dupree, a third character, is a new 'parent' whose heart is in the right place but who has very little idea how to be a 'mother' or even a friend to these two, but she tries. She runs a business from her home--matching lonely hearts. Her's, perhaps, is one of the loneliest.
Through adventures and misadventures the two youngsters are thrown together and become unlikely allies. They meet and befriend a homeless veteran and an eccentric neighbor who has a pet spider, all types of specimens, and a penchant for picking up neighborhood trash. She is also very likable, someone you might want in your neighborhood. They also meet the neighborhood kids, among them Jemmie and Cass, the main characters from Fogelin's wonderful Crossing Jordan, for Eb and Anna are lucky enough to have landed in their neighborhood. The two girls, along with the boys from the neighborhood, help Eb and Anna start to feel somewhat 'at home'.
Then, of course, change comes along. It is all around as wishes seem to be coming true for all, but will they be for the best? We hope so, we can mentally write it that way for ourselves, but I guess we will have to read the next book from this neighborhood and see if we can find the answer. I don't know!
I have purchased this book for one of my ten-year-old granddaughters for Christmas, along with Crossing Jordan, for the other 10-year-old granddaughter. I hope they like Eb and Anna and Cass and Jemmie as much as I do.
From Peachtree Publishing, available at book stores and on line through
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=anna+casey%27s+place+in+the+world&sprefix=anna+casey%2Cstripbooks%2C227
The two main characters, unrelated, have been placed in the foster care of a first time foster mother. A recipe for disaster? No, here it becomes a recipe for caring and sharing and helping each other and the new foster mother through the steps of parenting.
Ed is ten, a frightened little boy who tries without much success to hide his feelings through faked toughness and indifference. Anna Casey is an adventurous, inquisitive twelve-year-old who desperately wants a place to belong. Anna has lived with many different family members, until at last, she has run out of relatives. Ed has lived with his very irresponsible mother and whoever the current boyfriend might be. Ms. Dupree, a third character, is a new 'parent' whose heart is in the right place but who has very little idea how to be a 'mother' or even a friend to these two, but she tries. She runs a business from her home--matching lonely hearts. Her's, perhaps, is one of the loneliest.
Through adventures and misadventures the two youngsters are thrown together and become unlikely allies. They meet and befriend a homeless veteran and an eccentric neighbor who has a pet spider, all types of specimens, and a penchant for picking up neighborhood trash. She is also very likable, someone you might want in your neighborhood. They also meet the neighborhood kids, among them Jemmie and Cass, the main characters from Fogelin's wonderful Crossing Jordan, for Eb and Anna are lucky enough to have landed in their neighborhood. The two girls, along with the boys from the neighborhood, help Eb and Anna start to feel somewhat 'at home'.
Then, of course, change comes along. It is all around as wishes seem to be coming true for all, but will they be for the best? We hope so, we can mentally write it that way for ourselves, but I guess we will have to read the next book from this neighborhood and see if we can find the answer. I don't know!
I have purchased this book for one of my ten-year-old granddaughters for Christmas, along with Crossing Jordan, for the other 10-year-old granddaughter. I hope they like Eb and Anna and Cass and Jemmie as much as I do.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=anna+casey%27s+place+in+the+world&sprefix=anna+casey%2Cstripbooks%2C227
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