The Summer of Owen Todd is a story about two best friends, eleven-year-old Owen and Sean. They’ve lived on Cape Cod all their lives, and now that they’re a little older, they’ll finally be free to spend some time on their own. But Sean’s mother has a different idea–she hires a babysitter to look after […]
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The 2017 Upstanders Book Award Winner is “Some Kind of Courage” by Dan Gemeinhart
The Education Department at Antioch University Los Angeles has announced its 2017 Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award winner; Some Kind of Courage, by Dan Gemeinhart. Some Kind of Courage is an historical western adventure that tells the story about a twelve-year-old who has lost his father in an accident, and his mother and his little […]