I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.

Buffy ,'Potential'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Amy - May 24, 2011 7:14:42 am PDT #14878 of 28288
Because books.

Mine was Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp, about a girl who loses her parents and goes with her very young aunt to her grandmother's house, and the ghost of a child who haunts her there. I still have my copy -- that old Scholastic slightly bigger paperback size (I bought at school at the book fair). The cover's long gone, but the pages are all intact. I'm going to read it with Sara soon.


meara - May 24, 2011 7:17:27 am PDT #14879 of 28288

I remember that book! There were twins, and another brother a little older, and they had a treasure map on an island?

Yes! I think one was a cousin. And there was some story about how a great-grandparent had gone off to war (the Civil War!) and left a note/treasure map for his kids, and the great-grandmom washed it, so no one ever found the treasures....

What's interesting is there was a sequel, which I didn't know about until maybe college or later. My dad could've just given me that! :)


Kathy A - May 24, 2011 7:18:41 am PDT #14880 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I always liked the Richard Peck books. There were two books that involved ghosts; the second one had a girl who was a medium seeing the dead from the Titanic, IIRC. I'll have to look that one up for its title--it was really excellent!


Hil R. - May 24, 2011 7:22:51 am PDT #14881 of 28288
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Sideways Stories from Wayside School. The Great Brain. Matilda. Anastasia Krupnik. Nate the Great. No Flying in the House. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. I guess she's still a little young for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.


Amy - May 24, 2011 7:27:36 am PDT #14882 of 28288
Because books.

Oh, that's Ghosts I Have Been, I think, Kathy! I loved that. Richard Peck and John Neufeld were huge staples for me.


hippocampus - May 24, 2011 7:34:06 am PDT #14883 of 28288
not your mom's socks.

I'm bookmarking all of these because they're awesome.


erikaj - May 24, 2011 7:40:35 am PDT #14884 of 28288
Always Anti-fascist!

Harriet the Spy Where the Sidewalk Ends Nancy Drew(although I might have been a little older for those...)


Consuela - May 24, 2011 7:58:59 am PDT #14885 of 28288
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Is she too young for Edward Eager, Sox? Because I really enjoyed them, and I think if she likes Narnia, she'll like those, too.


Kathy A - May 24, 2011 8:08:23 am PDT #14886 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Ghosts I Have Been

Yes! Such a good book. It was spun off from The Ghost Belonged to Me, which is also excellent.


Connie Neil - May 24, 2011 8:20:20 am PDT #14887 of 28288
brillig

Elizabeth Enright! Gone-Away Lake! The Melanies! The Four Story Mistake!

Though I'm not sure of the proper age group on those.