BOM for Dec.

BOM: Book of the Month for Dec.

The Trouble With Boys. Peg Tyre. Crown, 2008. LC 1397.T97 2008.
From the dusk jacket:
"(boys) get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they're diagnosed with learning disorders four times as oftn. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level."

Negative Review

Descriptive Review

Positive Review

Magazine Sampler, Jul. 20

On our display of new magazines:

TIME July 20 AP 2 T37

• "The Renegade" by David Von Drehle and Jay Newton-Small examines Sarah Palin's exit from office.

Newsweek July 20 AP 2 N6772

• Daniel Klaidman discusses the possibility of Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. prosecuting members of the Bush administration for their role in torture.

The New Yorker July 20 AP 2 N6763

• fiction by William Styron
• John Colapinto profiles Al Franken's entree into the Senate.

New Scientist July 4-10 Q1N52

• "Emotion Detectors" by Hazel Muir reveals upcoming artificial intelligence technologies that can sense human emotion.