Amanda Uhle

2 months ago | hbook.com | Amanda Uhle |Dave Eggers |Lisa Yoskowitz |Alexandra Hightower

WinnerThe First State of Being by Erin Entrada KellyIntermediate, Middle School    Greenwillow    272 pp. 3/24    9780063337312    $19.99e-book ed. 9780063337336    $9.99It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so he’s amassing a stash of groceries acquired through shoplifting. Then he meets an odd new kid.

Jul 17, 2024 | hbook.com | Amanda Uhle |Dave Eggers |Lisa Yoskowitz |Alexandra Hightower

Dave Eggers. Photo: Mark Davis. Dave Eggers believes that true friends exist. His unwavering faith is carried onto every page of The Eyes and the Impossible, the 2024 winner of the Newbery Medal. Its protagonist, Johannes, is a free dog, a fast dog — oh, what a fast dog — who keeps watch over a sprawling urban park where he lives among his beloved friends.

Jul 9, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Amanda Uhle

If Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) had not yet managed to capture your attention, last month’s presidential debate may have stoked new curiosity. The much-discussed stumbles of President Biden on the stage left many Americans wondering: What about that woman from Michigan? This summer, American confidence in the two major-party candidates is at a low.

Oct 11, 2023 | thebeliever.net | Amanda Uhle

Amanda Uhle Jeff Daniels began performing, somewhat reluctantly, as a sophomore in high school in the ’70s and has not stopped since. Over the past five decades, he’s appeared in fifty-seven films, fourteen television series, seven Broadway productions, and numerous off-Broadway shows.

Jun 27, 2023 | lmtonline.com | Adrienne Brodeur |Amanda Uhle

- - - Every family is an arsenal of secrets. Mine holds so many layered revelations that after years of research I'm still unwinding filaments of the truths my parents and grandparents told from their lies and concealments. I'm not certain that I'll ever know everything they could have told me. I do know with conviction that a few of those truths ought to remain hidden. Some of them I'm committed to forgetting as soon as possible.