By Henry Amador-Batten “You’re going to have to come with us sir” was a phrase I had grown accustomed to hearing each and every time I was boarding a flight. This was the late 1980’s and I travelled a lot on business. While mostly from Miami to New York, work often took me to […]
By: Amber Leventry Dana Alison Levy’s second young adult novel and follow-up to The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher did not disappoint. The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island is what Levy calls a “love letter to summer, a book about brothers and ice cream trucks and growing up and seals and family”. It is certainly […]
By Jillian Lauren Two days ago we were at the water table in the Chicago Children’s Museum. I left the room for exactly five seconds to tell Scott something. When I got back, there was a knot of confusion and yelling around Tariku. I ran toward him and found an incensed grown man screaming at […]
By Jillian Lauren I’m back, friends! I got home from my wonderful (if exhausting) book tour during Tariku’s last week of school and crashed full force into the daily minutia of life. The every day-ness of waking stupid early, making breakfast, facing piles of laundry and cleaning dog throw-up was both an enormous relief and […]
