Sunday, July 8, 2012

The McAdoo Family Saga

Book One: Why My Dad Hates Ice Cream

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In this novel, lawyer Archie McAdoo and son Ned wrestle with a controversial case involving a gay client who claims he was fired for being HIV-positive. As ever in the law, truth and justice are a lot more complicated and elusive than they seem on the surface.
Buy the book in print or download it.
Teaching Kit
Adopt Why My Dad Hates Ice Cream as a middle school or high school course or unit of a course.  You are welcome to use the copyrighted Teacher’s Packet and related copyrighted materials posted here, provided you require your students to buy the book.

Book Two: Ned McAdoo and the Molly Maguires
In this novel, Archie and Ned McAdoo take the case of an animal-rights activist accused of planting a bomb in the Philadelphia Zoo to free its elephants. The paths of 19th and 21st century terrorism cross in this novel’s plot, which is as fresh as this morning’s headlines.
Ned McAdoo Teaching Kit
Adopt Ned McAdoo and the Molly Maguires as a Middle School or High School course or unit of a course on terrorism.  You are welcome to use the copyrighted Teacher’s Packet and related copyrighted materials posted here, provided you require your students to buy the book.

Book Three: Maggie in the Underworld
The first four chapters are available at:

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