About the Book: Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her “our little genius.” Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t […]
Ten Characters that I would Name My Pet After I name most of my pets after characters! I didn’t name all of my current pets, some of them came to me with names. The ones I did name are Opie (Sons of Anarchy) and Nemo (Finding Nemo). I also had a dog named Rocky […]
2016 Birdie Book Award Winner About the Book: “I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.” After the sudden collapse […]
When I was a little girl, my favorite story -well one of my favorites- was The Velveteen Rabbit. I had it in print of course, but it wasn’t the print version that I fell in love with. I adored the audio book, recorded by Meryl Streep with music by George Winston. Everything about the narration and […]
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