Thoughts on Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
Maybe it’s pie-in-the-sky, in today’s reactionary climate, but I loved not only that the young women in this book largely supported each...
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Wendy McDonald
- Jan 1, 2018
looking back at moving forward, with heart
New Year’s Eve fireworks at my friends’ house in Nashua. My word for 2017 was forward. It was my theme for the year–the concept I wanted...
Wendy McDonald
- Dec 11, 2017
at the bottom of the canyon
My brother Daniel died at the end of May. He’d been sick for a few years, and when someone is sick and dying, you get into the habit of...
Wendy McDonald
- Aug 9, 2017
Beautiful Books: Pictures of Hollis Woods
From the back cover: Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby’s name is an artist is now a twelve-year-old...
Wendy McDonald
- Jul 26, 2017
Beautiful Books: One Came Home
From the back cover: When the sheriff rides into town with an unidentifiable body–wearing a blue-green ball gown–everyone assumes it’s...
Wendy McDonald
- Jul 12, 2017
Beautiful Books: Black Radishes
From the back cover: Gustave doesn’t want to move from the exciting city to the boring countryside, far from his cousin Jean-Paul and his...
Wendy McDonald
- Jun 28, 2017
Beautiful Books: Challenger Deep
From the back cover: Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the...
Wendy McDonald
- Jun 14, 2017
Beautiful Books: The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi From the inner flap: Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of...
Wendy McDonald
- May 31, 2017
Beautiful Books: Small as an Elephant
Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson From the back cover: Jack’s mom is gone. When eleven-year-old Jack Martel wakes up on...
Wendy McDonald
- May 17, 2017
Beautiful Books: Rishi and the Karmic Cat
From the back cover: Rishi and Karishma are living a routine life in the US with nothing more exciting to deal with than middle school...
Wendy McDonald
- May 3, 2017
Beautiful Books – The House on Mango Street
From the back cover: Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero,...
Wendy McDonald
- Apr 19, 2017
Beautiful Books: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
From the back cover: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an...
Wendy McDonald
- Apr 5, 2017
Beautiful Books: mockingbird
From the back cover: Ten-year-old Caitlin’s world has always been black and white. Anything else was confusing; but her brother, Devon,...
Wendy McDonald
- Mar 22, 2017
Beautiful Books: All American Boys
From the back cover: A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a...
Wendy McDonald
- Mar 15, 2017
Growing my Writing with Vine Leaves, by Theresa Milstein
Thanks for joining me this week for a guest post by Boston area writer Theresa Milstein. Her collection of poetry and prose vignettes is...
Wendy McDonald
- Mar 8, 2017
Beautiful Books: M or F?
M or F? by Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts From the back cover: When Frannie is desperate to get the attention of her crush, her...
Wendy McDonald
- Feb 22, 2017
Beautiful Books: Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian
His hometown becomes a “secondary migration” location for Somali refugees fleeing their war-ravaged homeland, refugees Tom hasn’t thought...
Wendy McDonald
- Feb 8, 2017
Beautiful Books: A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
Full disclosure: I attended a panel discussion with Padma Venkatraman at a writers’ conference, and later a workshop she offered on...
Wendy McDonald
- Jan 25, 2017
Beautiful Books: The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy
From the back Did you, like me, grow up reading about Ramona and Beezus Quimby, their neighbor Henry Huggins, and his dog Ribsy? Do you,...
Wendy McDonald
- Jan 11, 2017
Beautiful Books: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
I like to read while I’m on the treadmill and I started Everything, Everything while I was on the treadmill. But two pages in, I almost...
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