Green and Golden Universe

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

I was reading Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie in second grade I think? And then when I was 9 I was reading every book I could find at the library on the Holocaust. The one I remember best is this one:

The copy I read had an all white cover with the word Treblinka in black and underlined in red on it though.

And I didn't grow up very privileged. My father died a month after I turned seven, my mother boarded socks at a sock factory, and I went to rural southern Appalachian schools. I mean, come on, did NCLB and the teaching "reading" by guessing words do that much damage to the kids?

all his neighbours immediately distrust him because he’s russian and they haven’t gotten over the red scare and also no one new has moved in to the town in almost a decade

but then he participates in podunknowheresville’s annual lawnmower race with a monstrosity made from scrap metal and far too much duct tape and he wins second place in a neck-and-neck final round against sam americason, the most anti-russian man in the village

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.

ALT