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Where to start? Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel, These is My Words, The Diary of Sara Agnes Prine by Nancy E. Turner, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, or Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. These are a few of my favorites. Some are children's fiction but all have really good messages and lots of discussion.
try "the wednesday letters" It was fabulous
I was thinking anything by Shannon Hale.Goose Girl is good. Austenland is a good option--Jane Austen-ish. I also recently read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. It's a fun, quick read. I also like Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns and hey, it takes place in Georgia! On my list of to-reads is Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, a totally different genre altogether, I've heard good things about it. I'm curious what you end up choosing, I'll read it too if I haven't already. Sorry I rambled!
It will make you cry...it is depressing...but I am that kind of girl, I guess. It changed my life after I read it. The message of forgiveness is astounding...
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.
Sweet Mary;
I haven't finished my copy all the way yet...but "Three Cups of Tea" came highly recommended to me from a friend who works in the retail book business. {There is a Young Reader's Edition also if you find your private reading time is short :)}
It is a true story of one man's journey to change the world...one child at a time.
Let me write here the forward from the book jacket:
"With the first cup of tea you are a stranger.
With the second....a friend.
With the third cup of tea, you are family."
In l993, Greg Mortenson tried to climb K2. On the way down, he became lost in the mountains of Pakistan and stumbled into a poor village. There, the village chief and his people offered Greg even more than three cups of tea: They nursed him back to health. Moved by their kidness, he promised to return and build a school for their children. This is the story of that promise's extraordinary result. Despite death threats, a kidnapping, and more, Mortenson has built over sixty schools--especially for girls--in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has dedicated his life to promoting peace through education, one child at a time.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Three Cups of Tea.... by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Mary, there's a really great website called goodreads.com. You can get friends on it, see what they're reading or read, and what they rated it. I go here to get all my reading suggestions. I would have to agree with a lot of these suggestions from your friends...The Hiding Place is amazing, The Host by Stephenie Meyer is a good one, The Historian is a little creepy but good, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Anyway, I want to know what you pick.
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