Theme Thursday

I was very excited to see this meme that was started by Reading Between Pages that allows us to post about a different theme from the book that we are reading all week long.  Here is how it works:

• theme will be posted each Thursday
• Select a snippet with this weeks theme from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post

This week the theme is about school so here is the snippet that I found while reading The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy:
"We'll be all right, sweetheart," I say.  "It doesn't matter that much.  We can manage without the china dogs, and the silver eggcups were such a nuisance to clean.  At least they haven't taken our books..." 
pg. 28