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Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars is about my memories of growing up, being raised by an eccentric and uniquely idealistic single mother. It is about how I was sometimes homeless and lived in shelters and in one apartment after another. It
Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars : A Memoir
by Lauralee SummerFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-05-27
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster
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Author Biography
Lauralee Summer received a B.A. in children's studies from Harvard University in 1998
Table of Contents
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Mother | p. 9 |
| What Does Your Mother Do? | p. 26 |
| The Trouble with Reading | p. 36 |
| Please Stay off the Grass | p. 43 |
| The Kids | p. 52 |
| Discipline | p. 63 |
| There and Back Again | p. 73 |
| 1509 Franklin | p. 90 |
| Schoolteacher | p. 99 |
| Naming | p. 103 |
| Costume Making | p. 108 |
| View from a Bus Window | p. 115 |
| He Is Blue and I Gray, Fragmented | p. 120 |
| The Quarterdeck Inn | p. 130 |
| Seashore Drive | p. 138 |
| Refuge | p. 143 |
| Quincy High School | p. 156 |
| Mr. Mac | p. 161 |
| "as my dream wrestled with itself and me" | p. 181 |
| Cutting | p. 200 |
| Homeless to Harvard | p. 208 |
| Moving In | p. 217 |
| Blueberry Honey | p. 234 |
| Parents' Weekend | p. 240 |
| Sleeping Outside | p. 244 |
| The Universe and Everything | p. 253 |
| Discipline, Part II | p. 259 |
| "Love Is Bodies, Blood and Sweat" | p. 266 |
| Meeting Him | p. 296 |
| (How to) Make a Room of Your Own | p. 324 |
| Graduation | p. 338 |
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