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This is the July 27, 2021, edition of the 8 to 3 newsletter about school, kids and parenting. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox every Monday.
Hi, and welcome to the 8 to 3 newsletter.
I’m Laura Newberry, a reporter on the education team, and I’m filling in for Sonja Sharp.
The physical changes that accompany early adolescence are awkward at best and excruciating at worst. It’s a phase of life that many of us recall with a shudder the breakouts, the growth spurts, the hair in new places.
But COVID-19 has added another layer of stress to the travails of puberty. A good proportion of kids in California haven’t seen most of their classmates in more than a year enough time for a tween or teen to become almost unrecognizable to those not in their immediate circle. There are also the physical changes that have come with a less active lifestyle during the pandemic, and turning more often to food as a source of comfort.
Cambridge Literary Festival director Cathy Moore.
- Credit: Martin Bond
A special book festival designed for children will be entertaining youngsters online this Easter.
Cambridge Literary Festival has got the Easter holidays covered, with a range of entertaining and educational events for all the family.
Festival director Cathy Moore said: “For the first time we are running our children’s events as a stand-alone Children’s Festival over the whole of the Easter holidays. The response we have from children is always fantastic and a great addition to our main festival. I hope that by offering access for the entire holiday and being online means children can meet their favourite authors and be introduced to new ones from wherever they are, whenever they want to.”
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Biography/Memoir
The biography lover on your list will be very happy to unwrap
âFamily in Six Tonesâ by Lan Cao and Harlan Margeret Van Cao. Itâs a book about a woman who came to the U.S. from Vietnam as a young girl, settled in and became an American success but then struggled to raise an American daughter. Itâs a book about family, legacy, love, and your giftee will adore it. Wrap it up with another story of time and place:
âMiracle Country: A Memoirâ by Kendra Atleework, set in Eastern Sierra Nevada, Minnesota and back.
Is there a giftee on your list whoâs obsessed with celebrity? Then why not wrap up