Lexy has lots of ideas. She has ideas about shoes, acorns, spelling tests, and fixing a vacuum cleaner. She is clever, but she needs special instruction for reading and spelling. You see Lexy thinks differently. Like Lexy, nearly 20 percent of our population has dyslexia. Many of them are famous, including the ones listed at the back of this book. So if your child struggles with reading and spelling, please don't miss the introduction and Parent Notes....

Dying is hell, at least for Alvin, a terminally ill widower confined to his hospice bed with nothing to chew on but bitter memories. It's never too late to live, to laugh, to love.