![]() All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.īeing responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. Genre/category: Fiction, Small Town and Rural, Sports Visit him online at his blog:, on twitter or on Instagram Fredrik Backman (same author as “And Every Morning…”) In Backman’s own words: “It’s a love letter and a slow farewell between a man and his grandson, and between a dad and his boy.” Highly recommended for older teens, men, women, anyone touched by Alzheimer’s, and can be devoured in one sitting.įredrik Backman, blogger, columnist, and New York Times bestselling author, lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and two children. ![]() Amazon Rating (July): 4.5 starsĪn amazing, creative, beautifully written short story with a huge impact and filled with love and tenderness. This is a tiny gem with a message you’ll treasure for a lifetime. With all the same charm of his bestselling full-length novels, here Fredrik Backman once again reveals his unrivaled understanding of human nature and deep compassion for people in difficult circumstances. Genre/category: Literary Fiction, Family Life, Alzheimer’sįrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer ***This post contains Amazon affiliate links. As always, you can find all the books I’ve read and rated here on Goodreads.įollowing is a collection of the eleven books that I’ve enjoyed the most (in alphabetical order) at this point in the year. I include only 3, 4, and 5-star reviews on the blog. Maya gets to go to the dance, her brother Nurzhan as her chaperone and she has the best time of her life, all thanks to her favorite chaperone.In the height of the summer reading season, I’m excited to share eleven (I tried for ten!) of my favorite reads with you in case your TBR (to be read) list is depleted or you’re in a reading slump and need some inspiration! Maya's little brother get's their parents to sign the permission slip for the Spring Fling dance, only if Nurzhan is Maya's chaperone. Maya's mom gets injured at work, so Maya decides to do all her jobs for her because she feel's bad. A couple days later Maya is found by her dad in the arms of an "American boy" and she gets in trouble. After the meeting, Maya's father is very mad. Maya is mad at her brother, because now she has to miss gymnastics practice because she has to go and attend a meeting to translate for her father. Though she finds out that her little brother Nurzhan got into a fight at school with his bully (Ossie Nishizono) because of the way he pronounces things. Maya gets called down to the office for something, and she doesn't know what for. So "normal" things in America like going to a school dance, are things they wouldn't normally do in Kazakhstan. ![]() Her parents are really strict, and they don't know the customs of the American way of living. ![]() She doesn't think her parents are going to allow her to go. Maya has gymnastics that she loves to do, one of her American friends also does gymnastics with her. They had sponsored them to come to America. Her aunt moved to America before them, with a man she found through a magazine. Maya is an 8th grade girl from Kazakhstan who moved to America because things were getting rough.
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