This Week in Books

I like to make these lists now and then, snapshots of what everyone in the family was reading at a given point in time. Lately I've been trying to take note of what the kids are reading and jot the titles down in my notebook. I don't catch everything, of course; a good deal of their reading happens in bed at night when I'm not around to make notes.

Here are books I've spotted in kids' hands in the past week:

Jane (age 14):

* A Man for All Seasons (the play) — this one at my request, so we can...