Monthly Archives: September 2017

Drama

Posted on 30 September 2017 by Barbara Howe

Audience: middle school and up Apparently I’ve had it wrong all my adult life. I thought explicit sex involved, well, contact or at least display of private body parts. You know, actual sex. But I’ve just discovered that a simple … Continue reading →

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The Mad Scientists’ Club

Posted on 23 September 2017 by Barbara Howe

As a preteen, I loved Bertrand R Brinley’s The Mad Scientists’ Club. As an adult, I read these pre-MacGyver, Do-It-Yourself stories to my daughter, and still loved them. In these stories, a group of boys, including one wild dreamer, concoct … Continue reading →

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October Sky

Posted on 17 September 2017 by Barbara Howe

  On 5 October 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik, and a 14-year-old boy in a coal mining town in West Virginia began a long journey towards being a NASA engineer. Homer H Hickam Jr’s memoir October Sky, originally published under … Continue reading →

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Endurance

Posted on 9 September 2017 by Barbara Howe

Endurance was the name of a ship. The Endurance is the title of a book, American author Caroline Alexander’s spellbinding account of the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic aboard that ship. On 5 December 1914, the … Continue reading →

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Edward Eager

Posted on 1 September 2017 by Barbara Howe

The captivating children’s books by American author Edward Eager are among the classics in children’s literature. I remember being spellbound by them when I was first introduced as a young reader, and my then seven-year-old daughter enjoyed them when I … Continue reading →

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