An Unconventional Dad Raising an Eccentric Son + Daring Girls + Longing and Belonging

[amazon asin=0307884848&template=thumbleft&chan=default]John Elder Robison, author of Raising Cubby.

Topic: A father and son’s adventure with Asperger’s, trains, tractors, and high explosives.

Issues:How an unapologetically eccentric dad raised his equally eccentric son. A tender, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny story of a father and son who grow up together.

[amazon asin=0062208969&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Andrea Buchanan, author of The Double Daring Book for Girls.

Topic: A guide to everything a girl needs to know

Issue: Camping to schoolyard games, great women in history, shooting pool; how to throw and catch; making sand castles, the Greek alphabet, how to spin a hula hoop, and much more

[amazon asin=0520258444&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Allison Pugh, author of Longing and Belonging.

Topic: Parents, children, and consumer culture

Issues: How parents decrease their own power in the home by putting their children’s needs first; how to handle kids’ consumer desires in a down economy; what really drives consumer desires.