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Nine-year-old Bruno returns to his Berlin home from school, one afternoon to discover that his family is moving house from Berlin to a place called "Out With," because his father is "someone to watch" in the "fury's" regime. Bruno does not like living at Out-with. There's no one to play with, he has left his three best friends for life, he's stuck ( Read more... )

 Many of the books that I read this summer were award winners as I am completing a graduate course for professional development called, "Politics, Power and Prize." It has been an interesting course in which we read the criteria for various children's literature awards, some scholarly articles about them and a selection of winners.  Last week, our ( Read more... )