I'm shopping for girls ages 4 and 7 and boys ages 13 and 15. I swear this used to be easier.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Dec 10, 2012 3:49:00 pm PST #3846 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
le nubian - Dec 10, 2012 3:50:49 pm PST #3847 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Do the boys like to read? I love The Westin Game (which might work for the 13 year old)
aurelia - Dec 10, 2012 3:54:13 pm PST #3848 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
They're all readers and they're all smart kids. I'm more concerned with content than reading difficulty.
Jesse - Dec 10, 2012 4:01:24 pm PST #3849 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's making me terrified that Casper will pitch fits if she doesn't get one of her top choices from the AG catalog for Christmas.
One year, I wasn't allowed to ask for anything I only wanted because of commercials. Can you make some kind of rule like that? Although I guess it doesn't help if her friends have the AG stuff. I am still sad I was too old for that stuff, but there's no actual way I would have ever gotten any anyway! For reference, I had a "Cabbage Patch" doll my grandmother made me, not a brand one.
Poor Homer just had a seizure, and he's a little weirded out. Me too, man! Scary. (He's definitely had more I haven't seen, but this is just the second I've seen.)
Consuela - Dec 10, 2012 4:01:42 pm PST #3850 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Reading it alone, I found A Wrinkle in Time pretty scary in 4th grade.
aurelia - Dec 10, 2012 4:02:54 pm PST #3851 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
What is a step up from Junie B Jones? The Great Brain?
Sounds like I need to read some L'Engle myself. I may go with Alex Rider for the 13 yr old.
zuisa - Dec 10, 2012 4:03:10 pm PST #3852 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Content-wise, I don't think there'd be anything wrong with A Wrinkle in Time.
But this is coming from the girl who was reading Stephen King at 11.
Dana - Dec 10, 2012 4:11:35 pm PST #3853 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am still kind of freaked out by A Wrinkle in Time.
What about The Mixed-Up Files...?
Amy - Dec 10, 2012 4:11:38 pm PST #3854 of 30001
Because books.
Poor Homer. Hang in there, Jesse.
What is a step up from Junie B Jones?
The Clementine books by Sara Pennypacker, the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume's Fudge books.
DebetEsse - Dec 10, 2012 4:11:58 pm PST #3855 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Roald Dahl is good for the about-7 demographic.