Angel ,'Chosen'
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."
I am reading (listening) Katabasis for my work book club and it is...a slog. I'm about a third of the way in and as far as I'm concerned both of these people can stay in Hell forever, I really don't care if they ever make it to the end of their quest.
(It doesn't help that the overriding metaphor here is "graduate school is Hell" and so me being also in the middle of a BtVS rewatch means I'm getting two "school is Hell" metaphors at once, only one of them is way way more fun. )
I finished Katabasis. It was a slog all the way through, but I'm curious if anyone else here read it, and, if so, am I the only one who thinks Alice is gay and deeply repressed about it? I give her and Peter....6 months, max.
ltc’s 4th grade teacher is brand new this year and has requested help in building her library. ltc’s tastes in book are very specific at this point. So, I’m open to suggestions of what I should look for to help her teacher out.
The books that immediately come to mind when I remember 4th grade are:
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
Owls In The Family
by Farley Mowat
Follow My Leader
by James B. Garfield
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
Some others that occur to me are:
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
A Wrinkle In Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I think that's the age that I started reading mysteries - Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc. Dunno what's popular now.
How about The Borrowers by Mary Norton and James and the Giant Peach, Dahl? Those are two I loved around that age.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
sj, I bet the school librarian would have some great suggestions! There's a huge amount of really great, diverse children's books being published these days, so it's hard to know even where to start. I would just recommend that she make sure to look for newer titles in addition to the classics.
Oh, totally.
Kate, we don’t have a school librarian. Our school library is run entirely by volunteers.
Thanks for the suggestions. I’m going to keep a look out for those titles while thrifting and volunteering at the library bookstore.