Thoughts of reading...

[vicki595]

You can blame lifelongfling and meeshyickle for this *sticks tongue out at both of them*

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Re: Read and reread

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

*nods* Blackbird Pond is a YA-level historical, written in the 1950s IIRC. The main character is a well-off English girl who was raised by her grandfather on Barbados (think Elizabeth Swann, but about a hundred years earlier and on a different island). So when she goes to live with her aunt in colonial Connecticut after he dies, day-to-day Puritan life is as foreign to her as to a modern reader -- and she's just as likely to get into trouble. (Hence the "witch" part.)

Mrs. Frisby was the popular book (along with Bunnicula) when I was in 4th-5th grade (age ~ 9-10). Think Flowers for Algernon for kids, but from the mice's pov. *g*

Trixie Belden is more or less the American equivalent of the Famous Five -- mysteries/adventures featuring a group of teenage friends in upstate New York. The series started in the early 1960s, I think, and it's still around, but it's always played second fiddle to Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys in popularity. I always liked it better, though, because they were actually kids, who had to deal with kid things. Nancy Drew had a job and a boyfriend and all that grownup stuff, and I just didn't relate to her at all.