Matilda by Roald Dahl; ill. by Quentin Blake Jonathan Cape, 1988 240 pages A couple of months into our marriage, my husband and I took a 2,000-mile road trip to attend a friend's wedding. As we planned our trip, my husband suggested taking some audiobooks along. I don't enjoy being read to, but I love … Continue reading Matilda
“I could do something really big”
The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002 113 pages It's a common scenario in juvenile literature: misunderstood, marginalized kid meets sympathetic, unconventional adult, and epiphanies/personal growth/life changes ensue. In The Year of Miss Agnes, the kid is 10-year-old Fred(erika), an Athabascan Indian living in a 1940s Alaskan bush village. The adult … Continue reading “I could do something really big”
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