'Serenity'
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."
Oooh, oooh, oooh... I'm such a doofus-- one of my favorite books EVER (I'm on about my fifth copy and I reread it at least twice a year), The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare.
Loved this one.
"Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William Mckinley and Me, Elizabeth"
This was also a particular favorite, along with The Mixed-up Files... There's also Harriet the Spy.
That's a shame about Spidey. I've only read the first trade of USM
Ultimate Spider-Man is pretty good, though it wibble-wobbles with canon a little.
I'm glad to get the Skulduggery Pleasant rec again because I've been meaning to read that myself.
They KICK ALL ASS.
around the same time I gobbled up Half Magic I also read and loved The Saturdays.
Ooh and A String in the Harp.
Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web. And I also loved the Eagar books.
Oh, "The Saturdays", about the Melendy kids?? There were a few others in that series, I think...I liked those.
Bunnicula and The Celery Stalks at midnight
SO perfect for her, no? Vampire BUNNY!
Elizabeth Enright. The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, A Spiderweb for Two
I just checked and they're finally back in print as of this year. Oh frabjous day. I can now buy them for children everywhere.
I usually end up rereading them every year. I think I'm closer to the Melendys than my own family.
Also, there are her other wonderful books, Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away Lake
I usually end up rereading them every year.
Would Joan Aiken's Alternative England books be too advanced?
I loved those, the Prydain Cycle, Caddie Woodlanw, The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
What about A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver ?
What about Pippi Longstocking? It's so long since I read them that I can't at all remember what age they're pitched at, but I'd think Kara would approve of Pippi's lifestyle choices.
Definitely Pippi!
Elizabeth Enright was my absolutest favorite author as a kid. My secondary school had an omnibus volume of The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, and Then There Were Five. I must have checke that out once a month, because it was one of the few books that would last more than two days at my reading speed.
Oh, blessed, foolish teachers who put me in the back corner of the classroom that one year, because I didn't cause trouble. Next to the classroom bookcase at that! It was a heavenly year.