Gone Away Lake.
Elizabeth Enright rocks hard.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2017 12:49:09 pm PST #24400 of 28260
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Jessica - Mar 05, 2017 1:01:27 pm PST #24401 of 28260
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Half Magic and the rest of that series are great. So is Pippi (though also, not entirely devoid of problematic racist bits).
SAM THE BAT OMG. The request was for a series (because she reads so friggin' fast), but YES. Why do I not own that already? I have FAILED as a Buffista parent, clearly.
We have a few of the Oz books (from my grandmother, when they were shutting down the store and trying to get rid of old stock), but I can't remember which ones.
We are mysteriously lacking in Beverly Cleary and Judy Bloom in this house - I think we have Mouse and the Motorcycle and maybe one or two of the Fudge books? All my old copies were read and reread and passed down to three siblings, and either they're up in Canada now, or just disintegrated into literary dust.
I'll look into Junie B Jones and Ivy/Bean too.
Calli - Mar 05, 2017 1:15:59 pm PST #24402 of 28260
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Maybe the Dragonbreath series? [link]
Amy - Mar 05, 2017 1:18:30 pm PST #24403 of 28260
Because books.
Alonng the Junie B. and Ivy & Bean lines, there's another sweet series with a heroine named Clementine -- can't remember the author's name, though. Sara loved them.
sj - Mar 05, 2017 2:18:52 pm PST #24404 of 28260
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It looks like I posted in Bitches instead of here, but it looks like most of what I said was covered. Except Roald Dahl.
Kate P. - Mar 05, 2017 3:33:39 pm PST #24405 of 28260
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Sara Pennypacker does the Clementine books, which are very good. I totally agree that a lot of the older books are going to be great for this age, though you do have to keep an eye out for bits that might be racist/sexist/etc. Would she like the Frank Einstein books by Jon Scieszka, or the Origami Yoda books by Tom Angleberger? Or the Family Fletcher books by Dana Alison Levy (which are kind of like the Ramona books but with four adopted brothers and two dads)?
Consuela - Mar 05, 2017 4:10:46 pm PST #24406 of 28260
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yes, Ursula Vernon--Danny Dragonbreath and Harriet the Hamster Princess.
Also Zita the Space Girl, which is hella fun.
Mogget - Mar 06, 2017 7:33:28 pm PST #24407 of 28260
The Stick Dog books by Tom Watson are entertaining.
The Humphrey series by Betty Birney, about a classroom hamster named Humphrey.
The Noisy Village books by Astrid Lindgren
The Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald
The Ellie McDoodle books by Ruth McNally Barshaw are a less-obnoxious example of the Wimpy Kid/Dork Diaries genre (my kid didn't like Dork Diaries till she was a few years older).
Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2017 6:38:30 am PST #24408 of 28260
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Barb!!!!
Between Here and Gone just showed up in my BookBub feed!
You're the second person I know to have a book show up there. The first was one I actually edited when Drollerie Press was up and running.
Gudanov - Mar 16, 2017 7:25:09 am PDT #24409 of 28260
Coding and Sleeping
I'm reading The Atlantis Gene right now (well, listening on my commute). It's basically the book version of a popcorn movie complete with Nazis.
I'm going to have to find another audiobook soon and I don't think I'll be going to the second book in that series. Probably go with Cloudbound since I listened to Updraft.