While She Knits - Holiday Gift Edition
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Who else besides me is getting ready to buy the gift that keeps on giving? Books for the holidays!
What books are you giving as gifts? And what books for yourself are you sneaking onto to that Amazon order because, well, you have that free shipping anyway, right?
Who else besides me is getting ready to buy the gift that keeps on giving? Books for the holidays!
What books are you giving as gifts? And what books for yourself are you sneaking onto to that Amazon order because, well, you have that free shipping anyway, right?
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Date: 12/8/12 05:36 pm (UTC)Perfect suggestions, as usual :-)
BTW, thanks, mods, for un-spamming my earlier comment, with theMacDonald, Bruchac, etc. That was really strange!
deirdrej
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Date: 12/8/12 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/8/12 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/8/12 09:09 pm (UTC)For my son (4 years old): Let's Go for a Drive by Mo Willems; Interrupting Chicken; The Three Ninja Pigs; The Pigeon Wants a Puppy
For my niece (10mo; for her to grow into): Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall and Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems
For my 4h grade students: Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
For my 5th-6th grade students: The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen
For my high school students: either Variant by Robison Wells or The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
For my sister: all of R.J. Andersons Faery books
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Date: 12/8/12 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/9/12 01:44 am (UTC)I also enjoyed Chima's other series, but I have to start the Seven Realms series soon
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Date: 12/9/12 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/9/12 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/9/12 05:24 am (UTC)For the nine year old - Elizabeth Enright. Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away, and the four Melendy books. Depending on how well she reads, she may need a little help with them but they're wonderful. If she likes horses, has she read the Misty of Chincoteague books? Pippi Longstocking? The Oz books? The Little House books? I second Edward Eager and Mrs. Frisby and Officer Buckle and Frances. (I'm big into the older books, as you can tell).
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Date: 12/9/12 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/9/12 05:34 am (UTC)Do you remember the old Landmark Books series? Well-known adult authors wrote history and biography books for children; for example, C. S. Forester wrote about the Barbary pirates. And they're being reprinted.
http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/kids-catalog?section_key=21-56&limit=10&offset=70
I think your fifth grade boy might like those.
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Date: 12/9/12 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/9/12 07:16 am (UTC)It's a good book.
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Date: 12/10/12 05:55 am (UTC)also stumped
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oh, is that what the moderation policy is? that makes a lot of sense. Good to know.
/worst mod ever
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Date: 12/10/12 05:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/10/12 08:09 pm (UTC)But I know what you mean about letting go of a series you love. I love the Artemis Fowl series, I just began it a year ago, but it feels like we forever. I think I haven't bought the book on my nook because I don't want it to end....
Why most all good series come to an end?
Now I need a new series to follow as well. Any suggestions?
(BTW: I just started enjoying reading last summer, so I am defiantly behind on reading good books, and idk what to read next. I can thank The Queen's Thief Series though for my sudden interest in reading:) )
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Date: 12/10/12 08:18 pm (UTC)One great series you might enjoy is Melina Marchetta's Lumatere trilogy. The first two books, Finnikin of the Rock and Froi of the Exiles, are already out in the States, and the third book, Quintana of Charyn, will be released here in early April. They are similar to The Queen's Thief series in that they have intricate plots, humor, and fantastic characters with whose lives and adventures you can't help but be caught up in. I'll look at my reading lists and see if I can think of a few more for you to try out.
ETA: The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson and its sequel, The Crown of Embers. I'm not sure when the next book is coming out, but both of these novels were fantastic. If you enjoy Urban Fantasy, Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys is the first in a four book arc and I have read it four or five times since it came out earlier this fall. So freakin' good. The Hunger Games triliogy by Susan Collins is great, and if you want to try more dystopia like that, Veronica Roth's Divergent and Insurgent are a good place to start.
It's not part of a series, but if you want some seriously good fantasy, you can't beat The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. It's one of my comfort reads. Chime by Franny Billingsley also has a place on that list, as well as The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater.
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Date: 12/10/12 08:22 pm (UTC)ITA about anything written by Jim Murphy. I really don't care for non-fiction, but I had to read a couple of his books for a YA lit course and I quite enjoyed them.
ETA: There are three other books in that series: Brian's Winter, Brian's Return, and Brian's Hunt.
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Date: 12/10/12 08:35 pm (UTC)I helped my mom pick out a bunch of horsey books for Nova either last Christmas or birthday, and I'm not really sure if we went with Misty. We ought to have, since I loved that book as a child. I know we bought her some of the Black Stallion books and some from the Thoroughbred series (the latter against my better judgement, as I recently flipped through some of my copies and the series hasn't aged all that well.) My sister had a good number of the Little House books as a kid, so she may or may not have kept them and has let Nova read them, so I hesitate to buy that series for her.
Thank you all for the great suggestions -- I will make a note of them on the Amazon gift lists I have started for all of the kiddos and use them in the holidays to come. :-)
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Date: 12/10/12 08:46 pm (UTC)The False Prince is one of the books that has stuck out in my mind this year, probably from the main character's similarities to our Gen.
I liked, but didn't love Variant, but I adored The Girl of Fire and Thorns and its sequel, The Crown of Embers. I think I loved the second book even better than the first, which is the opposite of what usually happens with series/trilogies.
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Date: 12/11/12 03:00 am (UTC)~mwt
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Date: 12/11/12 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/11/12 11:00 pm (UTC)What about Arthur books? Magic Tree House Series? Judy Moody?Junie B. Jones?
Those are books I remember my little sister, and I use to read. But that was a long time ago....
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Date: 12/12/12 02:28 am (UTC)I don't love Variant either, but some of my students will. I too liked The Crown of Embers even more than the first. I'm so excited to read the conclusion next year.
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Date: 12/13/12 12:57 am (UTC)