• What’s New

    Hello everyone out there surfing the web,
    I know I've been away for a while, and I apologize profusely-with all my work, volunteer work, and late hours for even more play practice [this time the play is Inspecting Carol by Daniel Sullivan], I've been so occupied with other things that I barely update anymore!
    I'd love to hear from you at: twentythousandleagues
    .wordpress@gmail.com
    Thanks for reading!
    -Leigh
  • About the Author

    Leigh periodically saves the world under the pseudonym Super Sally while her mild-mannered alter-ego is in her 5th year of one type of schooling or another. She'd like to send a super-secret-superhero thank you to Nicki and her SuperBlog WORDforteens. A spotlight in the sky scrawls her achievements as one of three editors for her school's literary magazine Lumen, an avid reader and inquisitive superhero. She'd like to thank Ernie, Bert and Rubber Ducky as well as Helena's Magical Green Mug and Mary Poppins for being supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Prep

Prep 
by Curtis Sittenfeld
PRIVATE SCHOOL? It’s much too expensive for the Fiora family. Lee’s father works at a mattress store, and her mother stays at home in South Bend, Indiana. When she gets a scholarship to Ault Academy, an east-coast prep school, she actually cries-after all the applications, she never actually believed that she would ever [...]

Define “Normal”

Define “Normal”
by Julie Anne Peters
Summary:
“PEER” COUNSELING? Jazz Luther isn’t what you’d call Antonia’s peer. She was a punk, wore black lipstick, listened to screamo music, and probably did drugs, have tattos, and a rap sheet as tall as she was. Antonia, on the other hand, was a studious straight-A student math-club-loving teachers-pet asked to be her peer [...]

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Summary:
AMIR AND Hassan are almost brothers. Both having lost their mother at a very early age, they nursed from the same woman, and grew up together. Their fathers grew up together as well, and are still very close. The one difference between them? Hassan and his father Ali are Amir and [...]