Welcome to Litsy!

This novel is a gentle, deep coming of age story about a young man finding his place within his community and newly privvy to some of the secrets of the adult world. My son and I enjoyed reading this together. (Another title from the Build Your Library Level 5 booklist.)

"As long as we were together I had in some ways never really left where I started because we carried that place between us like a familiar blanket."

Growing up in a military family and now with the semi-nomadic family I've created, this echoes my experience of "home." The second paragraph reminds me of the way I feel (less now than when I was a younger mom) when I go somewhere without my children.

"Without somebody to be somebody to, it was as though I wasn't somebody myself."

Different situation but kind of sums up why in this stay-at-home time I keep coming back to social media even when the interactions are confusing and/or unpleasant.

Read this to the kiddos as part of our curriculum - a cool story about a young boy who cannot see well - but has other ways of "seeing" that set him apart. Still mulling about the ending but we agreed it was a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read.

Reading this with my kiddos. #homeschooling #byl5 #buildyourlibrary