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There was a year of elementary school that Maniac Magee fever struck and every kid was checking it out of the library. Looking up the summary on Wikipedia, there was a lot we missed in the context. We just thought it was cool because this kid legend skipped school and had a poem made up about him.
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Feb 23, 2024 04:27
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Now y'all have me thinking about all the similar hosed up childhood books I read and loved. Johnny Tremaine did click with me. Other memorable books - Incident at Hawk's Hill about a mute/nearly mute toddler lost in the wilderness and taken in by a badger. - When the Legends Die orphaned Native American boy forced into white schools and customs who becomes an anti-social bull rider. He gets injured a lot, eventually retires and regains his native background. -The Outsiders, of course. -Hatchet was great. Didn't like The River as much. Didn't know until much later of the other books and never read them. -The Face on the Milk Carton. Read one of the sequels as an adult and thought it was trash. I identified with Skinnybones, and having no athletic talent at all.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:27
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root beer posted:When my sister was in middle school, she was into terminally ill teen melodrama by Lurlene McDaniel; here’s a selection from dozens: Think that's the one I read. If it is, the sick teenage girl gets a heart transplant because a college football player dies of a sudden aneurysm kicking off before this huge crowd. Despite this being proto-Damar Hamlin, of course 100% of the focus is the transplant patient whose fate is left in the air at the end as the transplant is rejecting. It isn't even uplifting YA medical literature. I began reading grown-up books soon after, really not much of a jump to go from this type of book to Stephen King's Carrie.
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Feb 27, 2024 22:35
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