Pendred Noyce

Pendred Noyce, M.D., won the Beloit Fiction Prize for her short story, “Father Donovan.” She is the author of Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure in Words and Numbers, which she describes as “fantasy for thinking kids,” and she is currently editing a book on formative assessment for the Harvard Education Press.

Book Reviews by Pendred Noyce

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“This book is recommended to anyone involved in health care—from student to practitioner to teacher or administrator—to remind us all of the traditions that nurture and feed us.

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“Among the conventions the author has dissolved include a clear timeline, narrative flow, a single version of events, and revelation of character through action. Some of Ms.

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Fifteen-year-old Emma barely remembers the night ten years ago when her mother woke her, made her promise to look after her younger siblings Michael and Emma, and then packed her into a car and dis

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A woman therapist is called by neighbors to coax a wild girl down from a tree.

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It’s 1906, and tenement-dwelling 16-year-old Prudence is a brainy loner, grieving over her brother’s death from infection and her father’s disappearance in the Spanish-American war.

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Imagine a village where no birds scatter to the pines as people pass, where no dogs wait panting by the door, no chickens peck for grain in the garden, no fish sparkle in the river.

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Dogtag Summer brings to life a piece of American history so recent and so raw that most kids won’t get to study it history class, and it does so in a way that is both emotionally wrenching