Chapter Books
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Taran Wanderer
With Llonio, each day he visited the nets, the baskets, and the weir, sometimes returning empty-handed and sometimes laden with whatever strange assortment the wind or current brought. In the beginning he had…
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The Castle of Llyr
We’re continuing to enjoy Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain, and we finished the third book, The Castle of Llyr, this morning after a few marathon read-aloud sessions. This tale included the further adventures…
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The Black Cauldron (Aloud)
I reviewed this book a few years ago, and looking back, I find that I still appreciate the same things after reading it aloud to my daughters over the last week (on the…
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The Willoughbys
Their father, an impatient and irascible man, went to work at a bank each day, carrying a briefcase and an umbrella even if it was not raining. Their mother, who was indolent and…
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Anne of Green Gables
It’s taken us several weeks to read through Anne of Green Gables together, and I’m sure it will end up being one of our most memorable books. The girls loved Anne’s voluble personality…
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The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
I loved The Mysterious Benedict Society, but I haven’t read any of the other books in the series. It had its magic, and when it was over, I didn’t want to risk the…
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
I’m not sure how I missed this modern classic by Joan Aiken when I was growing up. It was published in 1962, but it never came on my radar until recently. Better late…
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Books in the atmosphere
I’ve been reading in undisciplined fashion this summer — which means that instead of being in my usual one-book-at-a-time mode, I’m in multi-read mode. Currently I’m alternating between Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird,…
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Breadcrumbs
I picked up Breadcrumbs because it looked attractive on the new books shelf at the library, and because I remembered reading Amy’s review awhile back. I read it because I needed something on…
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First pip
As of tonight, the first pip — sort of a dimple in the egg where the chick is beginning to push its way out — has appeared in one of the Cornell red-tailed…