Category: nonfiction

• Three Confessions

  Confession #1: I have a lot of books. Confession #2: I have a lot of bookshelves (but I could always use more.) Confession #3: I keep my most treasured books behind closed doors. I first started hiding my books after my eldest child started to “wear out” his own books. Lift-the-flap books with no flaps…

  Carrie Dalby

  February 4, 2013

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, autism, banned books, books, children, family, homeschooling, Katherine Paterson, L’Engle, Laurie Halse Anderson, library, LIFE, literature, middle grade, motherhood, Nerdy Book Club, nonfiction, novels, parenting, pictures, READING, Terabithia, Terry Brooks

• So Much to Read, So Little Time

  Most of my down time lately has been spent reading. Studying is more like it. Up to my ears in non-fiction reading. Here’s a sampling of titles, all from the local library: Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens by Malina Saval *Graphic language at times—the first chapter has it…

  Carrie Dalby

  June 3, 2010

  autism, books, CORRODED, homeschooling, library, nonfiction, poems, READING, teens, vote