Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai HarperCollins, 2011 272 pages The Vietnam War is kind of a nebulous area in my historical understanding. I know something about it--but only from an American perspective (how and why the U.S. got involved, our casualties, protests on the homefront). I know virtually nothing about the war … Continue reading Inside Out and Back Again
Material World
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann, and Paul Kennedy Sierra Club Books, 1995 256 pages When I was in college, I often treated myself to a Friday or Saturday night prowl around the campus library (yes, I know, I'm a nerd). Those were the most relaxing hours I had … Continue reading Material World
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery Houghton Mifflin, 2012 148 pages Children with autism are (often very obviously) outside the norm in our society, and girls with autism are doubly so. While the CDC estimates that about one percent of children overall have an … Continue reading Temple Grandin
Read Like a Girl 