These are Friday night’s headlines from ESPN.com:
* Vick co-defendant expected to make plea deal
* Nike suspends Vick’s contract; No. 7 jersey pulled
* Big Unit to undergo season-ending back surgery
* Ranger next to Tillman sure shooting was accident
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When Pele gets here soccer will take off in the US!
When the US women win the world cup, soccer will take off in the US!
When all the kids who grew up playing soccer come of age, soccer will take off in the US!
When the US hosts the world cup, soccer will take off in the […]

On Friday I bought a book called FIRST LIGHT by Rebecca Stead. I opened it that evening and finished it Sunday morning. The story is told from two points of view: a 12-year-old New Yorker named Peter, and a 14-year-old girl named Thea, who lives in Greenland (actually, under Greenland) in a place called Gracehope […]

Very nice news on the book front. Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer is a Junior Library Guild Selection! This makes me very happy. Junior Library Guild is a small but venerable company that serves small public libraries and school libraries across the country. Essentially, JLG helps librarians by acting as a screening service, picking out new […]