![]() Her little brother Jamie is allowed to attend the local school. Her mother is too humliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. The book focuses on a young girl named Ada who has never left her one room apartment. This is a Newberry Honor book as well as the winner of the Schneider Family Book Award. I also am fascinated at the time period of World War 2 and the children of the war who were evacuated from London to the countryside. Last year, I read her book, Jefferson’s Sons and was impressed. I love historical fiction, especially for young adults (I’m young at heart, right?). I checked out The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley a few weeks ago to read for myself. I once heard a friend say about her homeschool that if she taught her children to read, she opened the world to them. It is my hope to promote a culture of literacy and a love of reading in our home. I read to them, we listen to audio books, they read on their own. What I am able to do is curate books, take my children to the library, max out our cards, and allow for blocks of time in the day to settle in and read. ![]() ![]() Books can expose them to things in a way that I am just not able to do. ![]() ![]() Books can take my children where I cannot… to another time and another place. ![]()
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