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Remember when I asked you for summer reading list suggestions? I finished the list a long time ago, of course, but it’s finally on our website. (That link will open a PDF.)
The middle school section at the beginning is the part you helped with. (And those yellow highlighted books, by the way? Are links to [...]

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Here’s a chance for you, my friends and readers, to tell my kids what to read: what book do you remember most fondly from your 6th-8th grade years? Get your suggestion to me by Thursday night and I’ll probably put it on my school’s middle school summer reading list! (I still want to [...]

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YA novels: the perfect choice for everyone on your list! (Um, maybe not the babies. You’re on your own there.) Here’s my handy list of suggestions — you just have to promise to buy them from your local independent bookstore.
For the grown-up who wants something packaged as Actual Literature:

Marcelo in [...]

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Happy New Year! We get a new President in a few weeks, I’m now officially 30, and I just got home from celebrating my nth New Year’s in a row with dear friends in snowy New Hampshire. All else is immaterial.
Except books, of course! The new year is traditionally a time for [...]

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