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| Author: | Elizabeth Gray Vining |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction, historical, medieval |
| Year of publication: | 1942 |
Eleven year old boy walks the roads of medieval England searching for his father and his dog. Newbery award winner | |
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| Author: | Pearl S. Buck |
| Illustrator: | Hokusai and Hiroshige |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1947 |
Two Japanese boys survive a tidal wave. Living as we do near the coast, I was surprised that it took my ten year old more than a week to react to the recent devastating tsunamis. Last night, finally, she began to take the tsunamis very personally. "We live at the top of a high hill," she said. "So I'm not worried about what would happen if I were here and the tsunami hit. But, my school is much closer to sea level. What would we do if the tsunami hit when we were at school?" Run uphill, I told her. Run fast. What else should I have said? Today, I paid a visit to my daughter's school. I asked them whether they would be notified if a tsunami were detected. I asked what the procedures would be in case that sort of a warning is issued. I suggested that everyone at the school get together to discuss what the plan would be. | |
Tonight, I read The Big Wave all the way through in one sitting. It is only 80 pages long and it packs a punch. The lovely woodblock prints in the hardcover edition were selected by the author. Here are my favorite quotes in order. The Big Wave: every child over 10 living on a coast should read it. But although the words are simple,
the ideas are difficult to deal with.
-- Emily Berk | |
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| Author: | Anne McCaffrey |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction, dragons |
| Year of publication: | 1976 |
I was not sure whether to be shocked or amazed at the outrage my daughter expressed when she realized that Menolly was forbidden to sing just because she was not a male. Guess gender bias has not held my daughter back as of yet. On the other hand, she LOVES this book. | |
My daughter also loved Dragonsinger. | |
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| Author: | Astrid Ericsson Lindgren |
| Illustrator: | Louis S. Glanzman |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1950 |
My daughter was hooked the moment Pippi started explaining about how everyone in Egypt walks backwards all the time. | |
Can't believe that my daughter was 9 years old before I remembered to remind her to read Pippi Longstocking. And then, she saw the cover and almost refused. So, cover the cover with its broadly comic, ugly picture of Pippi and just start them reading. | |
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| Author: | Marguerite Henry |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | non-fiction: animals |
| Year of publication: | 1948 |
Newbery award-winning story of Sham, the father of the modern thoroughbred, and the slave boy who believed in him. | |
Gently written, but the facts of the tale are harrowing. The boy, his horse and his cat are regularly tossed out on the street by uncaring adults. I won't share the ending, but we found the boy's fate disturbing as well. | |
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| Author: | Richard Dawkins |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | Non-fiction: Science |
| Year of publication: | 1990 |
Richard Dawkins' take-no-prisoners-style riff on how evolution has made all of us. | |
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Grandpa strongly objects to the grammatically incorrect language used by the star and first-person narrator of this series of many volumes.
But our daughter delights in Junie’s adventures and loves reading the Junie B. books aloud, and she also enjoys observing to see adults’ reactions.
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