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151. A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz

 

I bought this on pure impulse after hearing Cokie Roberts speak and visiting the bookstore that sponsored her talk. It was the best impulse buy I’ve made. Why, oh why, can’t textbooks read like Tony Horwitz? Lots of information, yes, but info interspersed with cool stories. Everything you always wanted to know about American explorers. Some I wish I hadn’t learned (DeSoto wasn’t a nice guy, for example.)

 

 152. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

 

First time read. I’ve read all about this book, of course, but I’ve never read the book itself. Like many people. Characters that make you think, I know him…Doesn’t he go to church with me? Excellent. A must read for everyone.

 

153. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

 

This book blew me away. Talk about a heartbreaker. Two boys lie to their parents, telling them they are going to ride their bikes up to a park when they fully intend to do something they’ve been forbidden to do. One boy doesn’t come home.

 

 154. Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes

 

A Newbery Honor Book, but also a picture book. A boy and his stepfather grow closer when they realize they are more alike than they thought.

 

155. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

 

Loved, loved, loved this book. Miss Pettigrew is middle-aged, a spinster, and having trouble finding a new position as a nanny. She has never really been successful in her profession. She’s dowdy and has no friends and no suitors. Her life is about as grim as life can get. Then she is inadvertently sent by her employment agency to the wrong house where she meets a nightclub singer. Her whole life is about to change.

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