All you need is a little beating and robbery

Mrs. Brown, my wife, teaches language arts for the 7th and 8th grades as well as reading comprehension. She’s big on reading. She wants to provide every opportunity for kids to not only get good at it, but also learn to love it. And so her walls are lined with bookshelves full of awesome books

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30 books you should read before you die

An avid reader friend of mine began reading through the books in a list called “100 books you must read before you die.” She got to Jack Kerouac’s On The Road and went to Facebook and posted the following: “I don’t get the appeal. It’s about a group of boys/men who are irresponsible, drunks, whoring

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Good Stuff! Two fun family and party games

There’s nothing quite like the laughter and fun a good family or party game creates. And we discovered two games this summer that have brought hours of pleasure. The first is Just One. It’s for 3 to 7 players and takes about 20 minutes to finish. Now, I was skeptical of this game at first

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