Archive for the ‘Dickensian’ Category
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2003 |
Huckleberry Finn in the 1960s and with all girls and the Goddess. I would have liked to have felt more Joy but my friends tell me that the 14 year old narrator is still in shock from all that she's learned. Anyway, the bees and the Sisters June, May, & August make this book well worth reading.
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Saturday, May 13th, 2006
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Posted in Conceptual: 8 and up, Culture, Dickensian, Fairy tales, Female protagonist, Fiction, Gifted, Reading level: age 8 and up, Science Fiction | Comments Closed
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
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| Author: | Charlotte Bronte |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, historical |
| Year of publication: | 1847 |
A difficult book; much, much sadder than I had remembered from when I'd read it to myself a very long time ago. It's about temptation and the definition of bigamy. |
My daughter was really shocked by the way
children (Jane Eyre and her classmates) were treated in the beginning of the book. She was horrified by the
sacrifices that Jane felt required to make in order to resist temptation and preserve her good name.
I'm pretty sure that, although the book is fiction, the conditions it describes are ones that affected many women at the
time depicted in the novel.
See also The Cider House Rules.
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Posted in Conceptual: age 12 and up, Culture, Dickensian, Female protagonist, Fiction, Homeschool, Reading level: age 12 and up | Comments Closed
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
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| Author: | Lauren Belfer |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, historical |
| Year of publication: | 1999 |
Kind of a Handmaid's Tale (without the explicit sex) that takes place in Buffalo, NY at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Posted in Conceptual: highly sophisticated, Culture, Dealing with bullies, Dickensian, Female protagonist, Fiction, History, Reading level: Sophisticated reader | Comments Closed
Saturday, March 25th, 2006
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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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Posted in Animals, Conceptual: 8 and up, Culture, Dickensian, Fiction, Reading level: age 8 and up | Comments Closed
Sunday, May 30th, 2004
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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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Posted in Biography, Child-raising, Conceptual: age 12 and up, Culture, Death is a central theme, Dickensian, Female protagonist, Fiction, History, Parenting gifted children, Reading level: age 12 and up | Comments Closed
Wednesday, April 5th, 2000
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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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Posted in Conceptual: age 12 and up, Culture, Dealing with bullies, Death is a central theme, Dickensian, Fiction, History, Reading level: age 12 and up | Comments Closed
