And Rose Under Fire is just as devastating, but also well worth it. I haven't read her others yet, but I plan to.
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
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 - Mar 02, 2017 3:51:02 pm PST #24382 of 28260
Because books.
Consuela - Mar 02, 2017 8:15:52 pm PST #24383 of 28260
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
You know she has a new book coming out?
Amy - Mar 03, 2017 8:34:31 am PST #24384 of 28260
Because books.
I did not! I do know I'm behind on her last ... two, I think? So much to read, so little yadda yadda ...
I just read the blurb for the new book -- yay!
And I'm also missing one of her other books, aside from the earlier series, this one, Black Dove, White Raven: [link]
Consuela - Mar 03, 2017 9:00:30 am PST #24385 of 28260
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I liked BDWR but it wasn't anywhere near as good as CNV.
Strix - Mar 03, 2017 9:34:19 am PST #24386 of 28260
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read her fantasy trilogy after CNV and RUF. Not as compelling by a long shot, no.
CNV was one of those rare books that I wanted to read again the second I finished it.
hippocampus - Mar 03, 2017 1:01:55 pm PST #24387 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
zuisa, completely concur.
Gris - Mar 04, 2017 7:19:34 am PST #24388 of 28260
Hey. New board.
The audiobook is REALLY good, too. Amazing readers/actors.
Jessica - Mar 05, 2017 6:22:21 am PST #24389 of 28260
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So, my evil genius of a daughter is reading at a 2nd grade level in Kindergarten, and her teacher has run out of books for her to read in the school library (the elementary schools here are split up in a weird way, so her school is PreK-K, and next year she'll go to the 1-2 school, and so on). In class, she's completely bored with the reading material available and basically refuses to practice her written responses to anything they read for class.
Her teacher has asked us to brainstorm an age-appropriate book series she can read on her own, for class, so that she'll have something more engaging to use for reader response lessons. The problem is that this teacher's definition of "age-appropriate" is waaaay more conservative than mine. The rule in our house is, if you can read it, you can read it. (There are some books we keep out of sight because I don't want my 6 or 9 year-old reading, say, Lost Girls, but for the most part nothing is off limits.)
The teacher suggested the Little House books. We thought the Cricket in Times Square series might be good. Both of those have problematic racist bits, though, so I'm wondering if anyone knows of a more modern series at about that reading level that wouldn't raise any red flags with a kindergarten teacher? We also thought of the Ramona Quimby books, but again, so very old!
askye - Mar 05, 2017 6:25:27 am PST #24390 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
What about Junie B. Jones? My nephew loves them , there is generally a good message in there and my nephew was a reluctant reader and Junie B. Jones was one of the books he was willing to try on his own.
sj - Mar 05, 2017 6:29:34 am PST #24391 of 28260
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Junie B Jones or Magic Treehouse?
We also thought of the Ramona Quimby books, but again, so very old!
I loved all these books at her age, along with Cleary's other books.