New and previous winners of the Teen Sib Leadership Award are invited to this leadership training event. For details about applying for a Teen Sib Leadership Award click here.
Teen Sib Leadership Day takes place at Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve.
New and previous winners of the Teen Sib Leadership Award are invited to this leadership training event. For details about applying for a Teen Sib Leadership Award click here.
Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He’s been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear.
Max is different from other children. Some people say he has Asperger’s, but most just say he’s “on the spectrum.” None of this matters to Budo, who loves Max unconditionally and is charged with protecting him from the class bully, from awkward situations in the cafeteria, and even in the bathroom stalls. But he can’t protect Max from Mrs. Patterson, a teacher in the Learning Center who believes that she alone is qualified to care for this young boy.
When Mrs. Patterson does the unthinkable, it is up to Budo and a team of imaginary friends to save Max―and Budo must ultimately decide which is more important: Max’s happiness or his own existence.
Matthew Dicks’ Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend is a triumph of courage and imagination that touches on the truths of life, love, and friendship as it races to a heartwarming . . . and heartbreaking conclusion.
Join us for an interesting discussion and fun conversation!
My dying wish is for you to finish my bucket list. I refuse to die without knowing this list will be completed. And I refuse to die without knowing my family will be okay . . .
Jodie Boyd is a shy and anxious twenty-something, completely unsure what to do with her life. Her older sister, Bree, is an adventurous, hugely successful Instagram influencer with more than a million followers. She’s the most alive person Jodie knows—up until Bree’s unfathomable, untimely death from Leukemia. The Boyds are devastated, not to mention overwhelmed with medical debt. But Bree thought of everything—and soon, Jodie is shocked by a new post on her sister’s Instagram feed.
The first of many Bree recorded in secret, the post foretells a jaw-dropping challenge for Jodie: to complete Bree’s very public bucket list. From “Fly over Antarctica,” to “Perform a walk-on cameo in a Broadway musical,” if Jodie does it—and keeps all Bree’s followers—a corporate sponsor will pay off the staggering medical debt. If she gains followers, the Boyds won’t be the only ones to benefit. It’s crazy. It’s terrifying. It’s impossible, immoral even, to refuse. So, despite the whole world watching, Jodie plunges in, never imagining that in death, her sister will teach her how to live, and that the last item on the list—”Fall in love”—may just prove to be the easiest.
Book Club for adult Sibs – IN PERSON – Thursday, June 29!
Join other adults who have siblings with disabilities for this IN PERSON session of our book club.
Here’s a chance to connect with other adult sibs while getting into a book on your reading list or a new read. We’ll be having dinner at Fratellos in Appleton. Weather permitting, we’ll sit outside and enjoy the Fox River.
No need to read a book to attend. We’ll be talking about our favorite books and probably everything else under the summer night sky along the Fox River.
PLEASE LET KRISTIN KNOW IF YOU ARE ATTENDING
so we can make the appropriate reservations at the restaurant.
Join other adults who have siblings with disabilities for this new book club designed just for you.
Here’s a chance to connect with other adult sibs while getting into a book on your reading list or a new read.
Any Sib may join from anywhere in Wisconsin. Books will be chosen by participants and meetings are expected to be held once per month via Zoom.
Don’t always have time to read? Join us anyway and read when you can (or use it as extra encouragement to make time to read.) Be open to a world of posSIBility!