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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Book Review: Eddie and Gardenia by Carolyn Haywood (1951)
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Eddie loves his goat, Gardenia, but when she chews the roof off of Father's new car, there's no way she can keep living with the f...
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Book Review: McBroom Tells the Truth by Sid Fleischman (1966)
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In the tradition of American tall tales comes the story of Josh McBroom, his wife, Melissa, and their family of eleven red-headed children...
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Book Review: Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (1957)
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Portia is excited to spend the summer with her cousin, Julian, but she never expects that they will discover an abandoned lakeside commu...
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Reading Through History: A Lemon and a Star by E.C. Spykman (1955)
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A few weeks ago, after reading Miracles on Maple Hill, I realized that while I enjoy children's novels from the 1950s, I have read ve...
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Book Review: Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry (1979)
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Anastasia Krupnik keeps an ever-changing list of things she likes and hates. Sometimes she hates her grandmother for losing her memory and...
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Book Review: The Big Six by Arthur Ransome (1940)
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In the eight books of the Swallows and Amazons series published prior to The Big Six , Arthur Ransome’s wonderful characters have imagined...
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Reading Through History: The All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (1951)
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Mama has five girls: Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie, and because there are no boys, they call themselves an “all-of-a-kind famil...
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