A sequel to Sachs' depressing classic 'The Bears' House' turns out to be necessary, but not exactly enjoyable. Poor Fran Ellen. The happy ending to 'The Bears' House' was that social services gets called and her siblings get taken to separate homes. The sequel begins with the family reunited and...
The titular Bears' House is a doll house built for Fran Ellen's teacher when she was a girl. It is lovingly described and Fran Ellen wants little more than to be able to finish assignments ahead of her classmates so that she may play with it. Her teacher is retiring though, and her teacher is going ...
Perhaps the quintessential summer camp story, if a little mired in period (John Garfield!). I never went to camp, but I'm fairly certain that if I had, I'd have been a lot like Laura.
I came to this as an adult and found it charming. A little dated, but still fun.
I loved Camp books! In fact, I wrote one myself in 7th grade, a hodge-podge of every summer camp book I had ever read. I wish I still had it, I bet it was HILARIOUS.
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.
I agree with those who said this book was uneven. It also seems to me that it lacked a coherent direction or tone. Some of the stories seemed too simple for older kids and some were too frightening for younger ones so I was confused about what age group this was aimed at. Thematically it wandere...
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