UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Please excuse the mess that has been the book element for the past few weeks.  I am working on revamping the blog and making some changes.  Hope to be back real soon!

Forgotten Favorites: ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET.

ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET.
By: Judy Blume

Publisher: Dell Yearling
Release Date: 1970
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased (used book)
Element: Middle Grade

SYNOPSIS (from the back of the book): No one ever told Margaret Simon that eleven-going-on-twelve would be such a hard age.  When her family moves to New Jersey, she has to adjust to life in the suburbs, a different school, and a whole new group of friends.  Margaret know she needs someone to talk to about growing up -- and it's not long before she's found a solution...

RESPONSE: You know that collection of books, the ones you've always wanted to read?  Well, I have a lot of those.  Why?  Probably, because when I find books I love, I tend to read them more than once and hence eliminate the chance to read books I might also love.  My Forgotten Favorites themed posts are designed just for this collection of forgotten books. So, take a step back into the past with me for a look at these Children's Classics.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Want to Give as Gifts

This Top Ten Tuesday -- er, Top Five Tuesday in this case -- post is brought to you buy the letter "G" for gifts and Jenna (that's me) of the book element (that's this blog, in case you were wondering).  This feature is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Blog and you too can join in the fun every week by linking up your Top Ten lists every Tuesday. 

This week, we're revealing the books we'd like to give as gifts.  If you are a member of my family, please stop reading.

Forgotten Favorites: HARRIET THE SPY

HARRIET THE SPY
By: Louise Fitzhugh

Publisher: Dell Yearling (an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
Release Date: My copy was printed in 2002, the text was originally published in 1964
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased (used book)
Element: Middle Grade

SYNOPSIS (from the back of the book): Harriet M. Welsch is a spy.  She's staked out a spy route, and she writes down everything about everyone she sees, including her classmates and even her best friends.  ... Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands.  Before Harriet can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?

RESPONSE: You know that collection of books, the ones you've always wanted to read?  Well, I have a lot of those.  Why?  Probably, because when I find books I love, I tend to read them more than once and hence eliminate the chance to read books I might also love.  My Forgotten Favorites themed posts are designed just for this collection of forgotten books. So, take a step back into the past with me for a look at these Children's Classics.

Forgotten Favorites: THE PLANET OF JUNIOR BROWN

THE PLANET OF JUNIOR BROWN
By: Virginia Hamilton

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks (Simon & Schuster imprint)
Release Date: My copy was printed in 2006, the text was originally published in 1971
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased (used book)
Element: Middle Grade (supposedly)*

SYNOPSIS (from the back of the book): Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who's prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester.  Most of the time they have been in the school building -- in a secret cellar room behind a false wall, where Mr. Pool, the janitor, has made a model of the solar system.  They have been pressing their luck for months... and then they are caught.  As society -- in the form of a zealous assistant principal -- closes in on them, Junior's fantasies become more desperate, and Buddy draws on all his resources to ensure his friend's well-being.

RESPONSE: You know that collection of books, the ones you've always wanted to read?  Well, I have a lot of those.  Why?  Probably, because when I find books I love, I tend to read them more than once and hence eliminate the chance to read books I might also love.  My Forgotten Favorites themed posts are designed just for this collection of forgotten books. So, take a step back into the past with me for a look at these Children's Classics.