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Schooled

I am reading a new book! It is actually quite "light" compared to what I usually read. It caught my attention today in Barnes and Noble when I was there for a teacher's day with my friend, Kate. The book is about a young teacher full of grand ideas. She begins to teach at a very elite private school. Soon, she is tutoring on the side for $250 an hour!! ... and learning to like some of the good things in life. It is quite amusing as she battles what she know is right with her new found money. I haven't finished, but it is good!

   Of course, I am in the middle of the 12th Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evanovich. This is great too! I LOVE my kindle because I can carry lots of books with me at all times!

The link below takes you to a regular link for the book, since most of my friends don't have kindles. (LOL of course, you can buy it for your Kindle too.)

Amazing Adoption Book

I don't know how I was lucky enough to stumble across this book tonight at Barnes and Noble! This is a new book that was just published in June 2008. It is paperback. It was $14.95 at B & N and is less at Amazon. (See link below) This is one of the few parenting books that I find to be extremely readable. The author has her doctorate in education, a master's in clinical psychology, runs support groups, and has an adopted child. Adoption if a process. People often believe that once a child is adopted, that is it. They have no lingering issues or questions because they are "so young." This book details parenting ideas from their the first hours you are together to the teen years. Believe me... there are some teen issues that I haven't even though of yet! The author talks about what types of questions children ask and at what ages. I am going to write about this on my 4 plus 4 yahoo group. Who else wants to get a copy? We can all read it as a group. It is a MUST read. (No, I haven't read it cover to cover yet. But I have read a few chapters and many other sections. I need a buddy to read this with!)

Silent Tears

Ok... you know I love my Kindle. But I must say there is a book that I cannot wait to read. It will be available in a Kindle format, but not soon enough. The books is a very moving account of a volunteer who spent years helping in an orphanage.

Book Review: Silent Tears (on orphanage life)

Imagine for a moment… You volunteer in an orphanage and find yourself surrounded by conditions that you never before knew existed… Cleft lip babies die from lack of nutrition because no one has the time to painstakingly feed them. Children who’ve just been abandoned lie sobbing for their lost mothers yet are ignored so that they adjust more quickly to their new environment. Babies fear bath time where in freezing temperatures they are rinsed under cold water and then left bare in cribs until they can be dressed, assembly-line style. Toys and other forms of stimulation are absent because they create sharing problems in large groups of deprived children. You routinely see bottles, still half-full, snatched away from infants who are still desperately hungry. Babies regularly disappear…and you know, all too often, that their deaths could easily have been prevented with adequate care. While you’d like to step in when the orphanage workers get too aggressive with children, you know that speaking out may mean foreigners are disallowed…and make it so that the children suffer even more when your back is turned. You reach out to a few children, taking them home with you for short respites from the orphanage, but realize that with every trip back they feel the pain of abandonment yet again. What would you do? .... read the rest of this review HERE. Kay Bratt's Web Site (author)   Kay Bratt's Original Blog