Posts Tagged ‘ parents ’

The Trench is Dug Within Our Hearts: Home Front by Kristin Hannah

26th January 2012 | 6 Comments

There are thousands of stories about men going off to war. There are just as many about women staying at home trying to hold down the fort while the men are at war. Home Front is not one of those stories. Jolene joined the military at 18. She had nothing. Her parents were dead, not [...]

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Review: Sing You Home

23rd January 2011 | 3 Comments

Zoe and Max want nothing more than to have a baby. Or at least Zoe does. After several miscarriages and a stillbirth, Max has had enough, but Zoe doesn’t want to give up on her dream. These irreconcilable differences result in their divorce. After the couple splits, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, [...]

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Maggie Stiefvater on Parents in YA Books

20th May 2010 | 0 Comments

People (and by people, I mostly mean adults) often complain about characterization of parents in YA books. Maggie Stiefvater wrote a great blog post about why she chooses to write about “bad parents.” This post is well worth reading, and interesting to me in particular, as I’m planning to start reading some nonfiction books about [...]

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