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Book review: At the Back of the North Wind
Monday, March 13th, 2006Book review: Tree By Leaf
Saturday, August 20th, 2005 | Tweet |
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| Author: | Cynthia Voigt |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1988 |
A gloomy book about the effects of war and weather on real bodies and minds. And about how a child can come to feel responsible for the acts of man and nature. | |
My ten year old found it compelling, but depressing. Without an understanding of the hideous weapons used during World War I, the descriptions of the injuries were difficult to understand. (Not that I'd have wanted them to be graphic.) A child might take the moral of this scary fairy tale to be "Be very careful what you wish. Very careful." And, yes, I approve of that message as it's presented in Into the Woods. "Be careful the wish you make. Wishes come true. Not free." And I do think it's good for all people to think through the full ramifications of their actions and their wishes. And through the main character, the book does help us to think about how to formulate effective, clear, less dangerous wishes. But do we want our children to worry that their possibly less-than-perfect wishes will come true? | |
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Book review: Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Saturday, January 15th, 2005 | Tweet |
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| Author: | Louise Erdrich |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | For grown-ups |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | For grown-ups |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2001 |
Woman is mistaken for a priest, and ends up adopting his identity and ministering to an Indian reservation in the early twentieth century. It's interesting to learn the background of some of the characters we met in Love Medicine. | |
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Book review: Little Women
Sunday, May 30th, 2004 | Tweet |
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| Author: | Lousia May Alcott |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, historical |
| Year of publication: | 1864 |
Four sisters grow up poor, but mostly, with dignity, during the Civil War. | |
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Book review: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Saturday, September 28th, 2002 | Tweet |
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| Author: | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1970 |
Magical realism | |
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Book review: Tale of Two Cities
Wednesday, April 5th, 2000 | Tweet |
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| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, historical |
| Year of publication: | 1859 |
My daughter has become a Dickens fan; but this is a good one to start with. | |
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