around the same time I gobbled up Half Magic I also read and loved The Saturdays.
Ooh and A String in the Harp.
I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.
Xander ,'Help'
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."
Laga - Aug 27, 2008 7:20:40 pm PDT #7085 of 28394
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Scrappy - Aug 27, 2008 7:39:13 pm PDT #7086 of 28394
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web. And I also loved the Eagar books.
meara - Aug 27, 2008 10:51:59 pm PDT #7087 of 28394
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!
Ginger - Aug 28, 2008 4:03:48 am PDT #7088 of 28394
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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.
sumi - Aug 28, 2008 4:19:24 am PDT #7089 of 28394
Art Crawl!!!
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 ?
Fay - Aug 28, 2008 4:35:11 am PDT #7090 of 28394
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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.
flea - Aug 28, 2008 4:45:24 am PDT #7091 of 28394
information libertarian
Definitely Pippi!
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 5:11:23 am PDT #7092 of 28394
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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.
Deena - Aug 28, 2008 6:39:27 am PDT #7093 of 28394
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I do not know A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, but I will find it. I adored Pippi as a child. I can definitely see Kara liking her.
Kathy A - Aug 28, 2008 6:47:14 am PDT #7094 of 28394
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
What a fun conversation!! I wish I had Buffistas around to recommend books for me when I was Kara's age; I had to go with what I discovered out of the library myself.
Like Sophia, I was a pioneer book girl (although I don't remember reading Carrie Woodlawn, strangely enough!). Two others in that genre I can rec are Island of the Blue Dolphins and My Side of the Mountain, both about young people who live by themselves in the wild and who must cope with isolation and survival.
I do have to say that my mother recently told me that she just realized that I probably should not have been reading Erica Jong and The Clan of the Cave Bear Series in 5th and 6th grade.
Heh. I was reading Roots in fifth grade and Rosemary Rogers' bodice rippers in sixth, and I'm not damaged! (Much.)