Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
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.
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.
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.)
E. Nesbit! The Enchanted Castle! Five Children and It!
My Side of the Mountain --I was always sad when the kid was found and taken back to people. Was I supposed to be happy that he was going to live with a family again?
Speaking of children's books, there's one I read when I was around 9 or 10, and I can't remember the author or title.
It's about a relative of Eleanor D'Aquitaine, a grand-niece or suchlike. She gets sent to Queen Eleanor's court by her less fortunate parents. I remember the girl had green eyes, and her sister said they made her look like a witch. (This stuck, because I have green eyes and . . . hmmmm, maybe sis had a point.) Anyway, it helped ignite my interest in Eleanor. I don't suppose anyone recognizes this book, do they?