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To: GretchenM
The Boxcar Children
Charlotte's Web
A Cricket in Times Square
The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Bunnicula
Howliday Inn

The last three all contain the same characters...the cat is convinced that the pet bunny is a vampire sucking the juices out of vegetables...heheh. Very harmless and funny.

I am trying to think of some more. It has been a long time since my children were in that age group, and my grandson is reading higher level books now. I will send you a note if I think of any additional.

85 posted on 04/08/2005 4:26:35 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple; GretchenM

Bunnicula is a good book! Also if you want to try historical fiction "The Cabin Faces West" and "Across Five Aprils" are good. The cabin book is about a little girl who lives in America and meets George Washington the President and what life was like in that time period. Across Five Aprils is about a family in Virginia that is torn apart by the civil war with brother fighting brother. But it is seen through the eyes of a 10 yr. old.


90 posted on 04/08/2005 4:31:05 PM PDT by EmilyGeiger
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To: Miss Marple

She LOVES cats! I am sure she would love these books. Is he vampire-vegetable angle in all three books, or just one? If one, which title?


111 posted on 04/08/2005 4:53:12 PM PDT by GretchenM (Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion to one another. Zech.7:9)
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To: Miss Marple; GretchenM

Charlotte's Web is a great choice, by E.B. White. By the same author, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan.

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Matilda by the same author.

For classics, The Wind in the Willows.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (may be slightly too old for now.)

A Cricket in Times Square has sequels. One is Chester Cricket Comes Home.

Julie of the Wolves and Julie's Wolf Pack by Jean Craighead George.

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164 posted on 04/08/2005 5:54:11 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (During our life's journeys we see the Lord at work if our eyes and our hearts are open. - GW Bush)
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