Who wouldn’t want to Shimmershine?

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Camille Yarbrough's The Shimmershine Queens Putnam-Penguin 1989 When I've had one of those soulfully-exhausting days (or weeks), one of the things that I like to do is browse in the children's library. I have my favourite branches, but often this is a hasty act of desperation which involves stopping at

Who wouldn’t want to Shimmershine?2014-03-09T19:40:20-04:00

Mary E. Lyons’ The Poison Place (1997)

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Mary E. Lyons’ The Poison Place (1997) Aladdin, 1999 I've now read more than half of the book recommended in Shireen Dodson's Books for Girls to Grow On and have good reason to read on (as useful as I find the list itself, it's her discussions that have influenced my choices). Nonetheless, this

Mary E. Lyons’ The Poison Place (1997)2014-03-09T19:33:59-04:00

Don’t forget to read your vegetables!

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Joan Bauer's Squashed Putnam - Penguin, 1992 Ellie Morgan, sixteen years old, is our main character in Squashed: "A funny fast-paced book about an ordinary girl with an extraordinary ambition." That's what the New York Times Book Review says about the novel. And here's a taste of Ellie, as created by

Don’t forget to read your vegetables!2014-03-09T19:14:51-04:00

Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Running out of Time (1995)

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Image Links to Challenge Site Margaret Peterson Haddix's Running out of Time (1995) Aladdin - Simon&Schuster, 1997 The Hunger Games meets "Little House on the Prairie" The Giver meets "The Truman Show" Yup, if I'd met Jessie Keyser in the pages of Running Out of Time when I

Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Running out of Time (1995)2014-03-09T19:07:16-04:00

The oh-so-spooky House of Dies Drear

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Virginia Hamilton's House of Dies Drear Illus. Eros Keith Macmillan, 1968 Hard to imagine a house with a more troubled past, historically speaking. For years I have confused Virginia Hamilton's award-winning novel with John Bellair's The House with the Clock in its Walls (which is also, by the way, a

The oh-so-spooky House of Dies Drear2021-01-12T15:12:51-05:00
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