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Oh I love it! What a funny teaser :)

Here's my Tuesday Teaser

Yay! Thanks for posting this list! I loved The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake so I'm so excited to see it on the list. And I have Safe From the Sea in my review pile so now I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you Barbara! Interesting book club discussion is on the menu!

That is CUTE! And it totally sounds like something I'd love reading to my kids! Thanks!

Oh, and thanks for visiting Proud Book Nerd! :-)

I loved this one!! The monkey is hilarious! :D I bet it gets kinda a boring going "No, it's a book." for ten times in a row... Poor monkey.

I wonder if there ARE children who know how to read a webpage before they've turned their first book page?

oh wow what a teaser that is! this book sounds like it could be from just about any suburban neighborhood from around the world. we've all had moments when we've looked at someone else's child, whether a neighbor, a person in the grocery store or a restaurant and thought 'that child just needs some discipline;' - perhaps not a slap, i don't know yet the circumstances behind the slap but oh gosh i'd love to win this book and share it with my book club and blog friends and readers! thank you for sharing such a fantastic read with us!

I want to read this one but agree sounds like a great debate discussion for a book club. Another blogger wrote a review on it today.

Who in this world hasn't wanted to discipline someone else's child? My grandmother used to tell me how her whole neighborhood would discipline each others children or at the very least tell her parents if she was misbehaving. Teachers today are afraid to hug a student for dear of being accused of something.
I could go on but agree this sure would make for a great book club discussion.

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'I was born on the second day of Jewish New Year. When I discovered that Yaffa, the third daughter of our Syrian neighbors, was born during Hanukkah, I assumed that children were born on holy days - as a special gift from God. When I realized that my sister, who is older than me by one year and eight months, was born in January and I could find no holy day in her vicinity, I became very worried and afraid that she was damaged.'
from Every House Needs A Balcony by Rina Frank

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Just a couple of days after the 50th anniversary of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' here I am writing about the indelible impact it made on me after I first read the book when I was in high school. Of course, it’s relevant today. The book is about growing up, coming to terms with the world around you, and in the process, putting a couple of lessons in your pockets. To me, the book is an expression of my faith in all the good things in life – love, compassion, understanding, and above, all, belief in yourself, in spite of the odds against you. That takes courage–real courage to go against the current. That’s the kind of courage Atticus Finch showed and that’s precisely the reason why he’s become one of the most popular characters in all of literature. I did see the movie and thought it did justice to the book. Gregory Peck, as Finch, was one of his most memorable roles of his career. I recently re-read the book for my English class and wanted to get various perspectives of it. Shmoop’s take on it was great!