Literature

A Review of A Sprinkle of Dust: A Mother’s Struggle with Loss and Healing by Mary Saad Assel (iUniverse, 2017)

Author: April 16, 2020

            A Sprinkle of Dust: A Mother’s Struggle with Loss and Healing is a powerful memoir about a close-knit Arab-American family’s attempt to sustain a young man battling cancer and to recover after his death. Author Mary Saad Assel, a…
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Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Literature, Memoir, Multicultural Literature, Nonfiction, Reviews

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Review of the Novel Matilda by Roald Dahl

Author: August 5, 2019

Matilda, a novel for children by Roald Dahl first published in 1988, focuses on a precocious young girl whose parents mostly ignore her.  Matilda attends an elementary school run by the abusive Headmistress Trunchbull, who hates children.  Writing with a…
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Book Reviews, Books, Children's Literature, Fiction, Gifted Children, Literature, Novels, Parenting

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Review of the Middle-Grade Novel Worth by Alexandria LaFaye (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2004)

Author: April 18, 2019

This historical novel set in the 1800s poses a challenging question:  how much is a child worth when differently abled or orphaned? Eleven-year-old Nathaniel “Nate” Peale helps his parents Gabriel and Mary Eva to farm their land in Nebraska.  He…
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Book Review, Books, Children's Literature, Coping with Deaths in a Family, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humanities, Literature, Novels, Parenting, Psychological Issues, Reviews, Sibling Rivalry

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