A Taste of Blackberries is a story about two best friends. Jamie is a jokester and is not afraid of anything. The story is narrated by Jamie's best friend, who is never named. But one day Jamie is messing around a hole that bees live in. He stirs them up and gets stung. When he falls down, his best ...
Cute sweet, fun and enjoyable.
I realized soon after starting this that I had in fact read it as a kid -- however, the only bit I remembered clearly is the (not important to the plot) scene near the start where Carol is cold her first night in England and uses the antique warming pan, not realizing one is supposed to remove it fr...
There is nothing I could say that could convey how much this book (and film) belongs to my childhood. Dickon (of The History Boys fame no less!) is mesmerising, whereas May is everything little girls are but should not be. Also one of the few films to be true to the book in almost all aspects (how y...
It was okay–I liked the realistic description of interactions between happen-to-be-related children, but I’m not keen on ghost stories in general. They just…don’t do much for me. Bar The Graveyard Book, but that’s different. [Nov. 2008]
Not one of my favourites by the talented Ms. McKillip. It was a quick read. I'm not a big fan of ghost stories.
Baseball player Matt names all his sons after baseball stars. His daughter he names Florence in hopes that she will become a nurse, but she turns out to be the one who inherits his athletic talent.
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