Yes!
My memory is very strange but at least I got the initials right.
Just tryin' a little spicy talk.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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."
sumi - Feb 22, 2008 6:19:28 am PST #5128 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Connie Neil - Feb 22, 2008 6:22:45 am PST #5129 of 28344
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The thing about the past that confuses me is that it seems from boooks and such that there was no gradual change from being a child to being an adult. Just Boom! You are a lady!
Part of that was because a child's job was learning how to be a grownup. Every child was doing some sort of work as soon as they could physically manage it. Yeah, there was running around and playing, but that happened after the chickens were fed, the grain was ground, and if you didn't need to do some other chore. Even as late as the '60s, when I was a kid, it was not uncommon for school to let the farm kids skip a few days when it was time to get the hay in or harvest some other crop.
meara - Feb 22, 2008 6:37:33 am PST #5130 of 28344
I had Caddie Woodlawn! Love!
Ginger - Feb 22, 2008 8:10:10 am PST #5131 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Do you mean pioneers in the West, Aimee, or would that include early New England books such as The Witch of Blackbird Pond?
Aims - Feb 22, 2008 8:10:58 am PST #5132 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Any pioneers, really. I'll add that one to the list.
Ginger - Feb 22, 2008 8:25:16 am PST #5133 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Elizabeth George Speare also wrote Calico Captive, which was loosely based on a real Indian captivity story.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 22, 2008 8:28:25 am PST #5134 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I read a lot of books by Lois Lenski [link]
the ones in particular that I remember are Mary Jemison, Indian Captive and Strawberry Girl, but I think there are a bunch of pioneer/farm ones in there.
Kathy A - Feb 22, 2008 8:42:11 am PST #5135 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm trying to remember if I read any other pioneer-type books, and nothing is coming to mind. If you're looking for surviving-in-harsh-isolation stuff, there's Island of the Blue Dolphins and My Side of the Mountain.
The thing about the past that confuses me is that it seems from boooks and such that there was no gradual change from being a child to being an adult. Just Boom! You are a lady!
One thing I love about Little Town on the Prairie is that it does a good job of showing how teen fads were rampant even in isolated frontier towns in the 19th century. Autograph books, name cards, "fringe" bangs, hoopskirts--it was all about keeping up with fashion and not being out of style, even if your town hadn't seen a copy of the latest ladies magazine from New York City in several months.
Dana - Feb 22, 2008 8:43:35 am PST #5136 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My Antonia? I'm not sure it's in the age range you're looking for, though. Or what the age range for that book would be.
Ginger - Feb 22, 2008 9:03:04 am PST #5137 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are Bess Streeter Aldrich's books about Nebraska pioneers. I loved them in high school. A Lantern in Her Hand is classified as young adult, but I'm not sure about the others.