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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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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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Review of No Talking by Andrew Clements

Author: December 21, 2017

In the well written middle-grade novel No Talking, author Andrew Clements portrays a competition between the fifth-grade boys and the fifth-grade girls at Laketon Elementary School to determine which group can talk the least for 48 hours spread over three…
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