The Incident Report
6 best books like The Incident Report (Martha Baillie): Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Waiting for Eden, Totally Joe, Arabian Nights and Days, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home--and who narrates the novel. But...
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 0689839588 |
I work with middle schoolers, and every now and then I dabble a bit in adolescent literature. I have to say, I'm frequently disturbed by what I find in the genre. There are a lot of mass marketed young adult books filled with pain and angst. There are a lot of books about drug use, alcohol, abuse, pregnancy,...
| Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
| ISBN | 0385469012 |
I decided a month or so ago to read some books by Arab authors. I was hoping to find the longing and the loneliness, the need for love and for useful work that we all share as human beings. I hoped that I would find in Arab authors kindred souls to help me bridge the sense of separation that I felt with my Muslim...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
| Author | Stephen Leacock |
| ISBN | 1406814334 |
Now with regard to Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock's 1912 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, I have always (and from square one so to speak) been of the distinct and unfortunate impression that for many of us who have had to meticulously and with enforced thoroughness peruse Sunshine Sketches of...
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker) writer comes a powerful and moving account of how refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school learn English and become Americans.
The Newcomers follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers throughout the...
