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Secks Cauldron
Aug 26, 2006

I thought they closed that place down!

wesleywillis posted:

Yeah, fudge was a dick though. His dad should have beaten his rear end a few times. But rubbing mashed potatoes in his face or hair or whatever was pretty sweet.
Eat it or wear it!

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Secks Cauldron
Aug 26, 2006

I thought they closed that place down!

root beer posted:

There was another book, called Homecoming, about a few kids whose single mother left them, and they eventually catch up to her to learn she is schizophrenic and in a catatonic state. Looking back, I wonder if our teacher was going through something because, drat, what a weird theme we were dealing with in that class.
We had to read an excerpt from Dicey's Song, one of the sequels to Homecoming, and I liked it so much I tracked the book down and read the rest of it. There's a whole series of books following the kids and some of their friends and family and the author won some awards for it. The couple I read were very beautifully written and I think I'll read the rest of them.

Secks Cauldron
Aug 26, 2006

I thought they closed that place down!
One more for the lost in the wilderness genre: Lost Girls, Adrift! and Alone!. A group of teenage girls go on what was supposed to be a one week vacation sailing in the Bahamas. A storm comes up, their boat gets wrecked, and they wash up on a deserted island. I don't remember much about the survival skills within but there was a section where they learn how to shell a conch and cook the meat. It probably wasn't very popular because there were only two books in the series, and reviews say the second one ends abruptly. I wonder if I can track down the second book. I'm still wondering what happened to those characters.

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