As the author of numerous best-sellers, including “Handle With Care” and “My Sister’s Keeper,” Jodi Picoult has a way of connecting with her readers. It’s not that Picoult’s works will ever be considered classics. What makes this author stand out is her stories and the characters who bring them to life.
And Picoult continues that tradition in her latest book, “House Rules,” a story of family and the rules that bind them.
Eighteen-year-old Jacob Hunt is brilliant. He’s smarter than most people. And he has an incredible memory for fact and figures.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to announce Monday that his agency is ramping up enforcement of civil rights laws in schools and colleges, a move that seeks to draw a contrast with the policies of his Republican predecessors.
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In an attempt to tackle the social exclusion of adults with autism in England, they are all set to get the same access to jobs, education and good health care as everybody else following a pledge from Government in its first autism strategy for England.
The state has been accused of ignoring adults with the condition, as just 15% are in employment and half live at home.
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