Tag: Juvenile Fic

by Barbara R. Vance

Poems. Another book I got because it came up in my recent subject search. This book is full of quirky, amusing, and sometimes good-life-lesson kind of poems. About things from a kid’s perspective- sometimes ironic, or whimsical, or just thoughtful. Not quite as wacky as Shel Silverstein would get, but I have to say the drawing style and the poems reminded me a lot of him. And I enjoyed most of them, to my surprise. I even read a bunch aloud to my twelve-year-old. Sometimes the rhythm was not quite smooth, they don’t all flow off the tongue easily. Some are quite long and detailed, others just a few short lines, a little observational quip. Disappointingly, the one that grabbed my attention because it happened to be in the jacket description, was a silly short thing about mice roller skating past the traps so fast to nab cheese. It didn’t do much for me. But most of the other poems were much better. There are poems about borrowing an older brother’s bike, enjoying snowfall with a school closure, suffering braces, being afraid of things (like the bathtub drain- the title poem was a good one!) or a scary neighbor’s dog. My favorite was one about sailing, I really love the image that last stanza puts in my mind.

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
192 pages, 2010

by Beverly Cleary

Another j-fiction book I have because my kid discarded it. Another author I knew when when I was younger, and this book I’d never heard of. It’s much shorter than the Ramona books. Maggie is a third-grader who resents having to learn cursive handwriting. She’s adamant that her printing is very legible and she can type faster on the computer, so why does she have to learn cursive? It’s hard. She doodles curves and squiggles on her paper instead of making proper letters, and outright refuses to practice properly. Before long the entire class is ahead of her, and now the other kids are starting to point and whisper “that’s the kid who won’t do cursive.” Now she feels like she can’t give in. But she starts to notice there’s certain things she can’t read without knowing cursive. And her pride starts to falter when the class progresses further, as she’s also got a reputation for being smart. The teacher sends her to deliver notes and she’s dying to know what they say (who can resist sneaking a peak?) She’s also very preceptive, and just happens to notice that her father’s cursive is a bit untidy and her mother’s writing leans the wrong way- which she is quick to criticize (ha). I thought the teacher’s method of convincing Maggie to practice and learn the handwriting was fairly clever and let the girl save face. It was a nice story, just very short and didn’t do a whole lot for me. I’m sure for the age group and any kids also reluctant to learn an archaic-seeming skill, would appreciate this one.

Rating: 2/5
68 pages, 1990

by John Peterson

When I was a kid I read some of the Littles books- at least the first three or four. Not far into the series though, because I don’t remember there being any other Little people families, and this mentions several. It was familiar enough to me that right away I recalled the names of the main characters- Tom and his sister Lucy, the ex-soldier Uncle Nick, the dashing pilot Cousin Dinky, etc. I have this book because when my kid was cleaning out their collection of things that they’d outgrown years ago, I kept some. A Littles book I hadn’t read.

It was plenty fun and a good read, even though I have a gap, not having read quite a few volumes that preceded this one, and having forgotten a lot of the earlier volumes too. The Littles are tiny people that live between the walls of people’s house, using things they find and collect- like a matchbox for the baby’s bed, a thimble for a bucket, etc. I always thought this was super clever and fascinating when I read the other books as a kid. This volume starts off immediately with an adventure- young Tom Little is on the roof with his Uncle Nick and Dinky. They’ve rigged up a discarded party balloon to be a hot-air balloon, but something goes wrong with their test flight- Tom and Uncle Nick end up flying away without Dinky, off-course. They go far beyond their normal range, but manage to crash land without getting injured- finding themselves on top of a hillside in a secluded area where to their surprise, there’s another family of “tinies”. These tinies wear old-fashioned clothes and speak oddly and have a different value system- men and women’s work strictly segregated, and girls in particular forbidden to do all sorts of things, expected to be demure and well-behaved. Tom befriends the daughter of the family, who is not at all demure- she’s smart and quite adventuresome (which gets her into trouble). Tom doesn’t want to upset the order of things, but also doesn’t like seeing her spirit squashed. Well, the other tiny family is welcoming and with some help they get their balloon repaired. The isolated tinies are surprised to hear news from the modern world, while they have a few things on their farm that astonish Tom and his uncle as well. When they get home, Tom and Lucy have their own little adventure exploring in the woods- there’s chipmunk encounters in dark tunnels! I loved the references to some children’s literature, and Lucy’s desire to make a secret garden and how she did that- but disappointed the story didn’t explore that any further, once she had planted some flowers it wasn’t mentioned again. Their family eventually connects with the isolated tiny farm family again, and there’s a happy ending for all.

It was sweet and fun. And of course now I’d like to read other Little books, plus The Borrowers too, which I never got into.

Rating: 3/5
105 pages, 1999

Baby-Sitters Little Sister

by Ann M. Martin

When I was a teen I read a lot of the Baby-Sitter Club books, as many as were available at the time. I knew there was a graphic novel version of the series, and a television show- I didn’t know there was this graphic novel j-fiction series spinoff as well- about Karen. She’s the six-year-old stepsister of Kristy (the president of the baby-sitters club). This graphic novel is very cute and lively, with bright animated illustrations by Katy Farina. And this one is about Karen’s passion for roller-skating.

Karen loves roller-skating, especially trying new stunts and tricks. She’s bold and daring, always testing limits. Eager to try out a new trick she saw online, jumping over an obstacle. She succeeds, but falls when turning after her landing, and breaks her wrist (because she forgot to put on her wrist guards). The family all commiserates, she’s rushed to the hospital (I thought it kind of funny the dad carried her everywhere, even though her wrist was broken, nothing wrong with her legs) and gets a cast. Disappointed that she can’t use her skates for two months, but still has to go to school! The family keeps her company on the couch and helps her with things for a while, then the novelty wears off and she’s told to do things for herself now. Which makes her a bit cross, she was enjoying that extra attention (ha).

She meets a boy from her school who has a cast on his leg and is impressed with all the signatures he got on it. Determined to get a better collection of cast signatures, she pesters all her friends and family to sign her cast, then tries to find someone famous to sign it (does the ice-cream truck man count?) She gets paw-prints from dogs and cats, and braves visiting next door with her friend, to ask the old lady that lives there (they think she’s a witch). Each time she asks someone to sign, she tells what happened, making the story increasingly bigger and more dramatic, until everybody is rolling their eyes at her exaggerations. In the end, she learns to tell her story straight, and is nice to the other kid at school with the broken ankle, instead of bragging and showing off like she’s inclined to. I liked this story, even though it ended up being about dealing with an injury and the frustration of not being able to skate for a while!

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
126 pages, 2020

Emma Every Day

by C.L. Reid

Cute little early-reader book from a series about an eight-year-old girl who is partly deaf- she can hear certain things with the aid of her cochlear implant. Throughout the book certain words and names are shown in ASL finger-spelling. Emma’s best friend likes roller-skating and Emma wants to skate, too. She has all the things she needs- new skates, a helmet, and all the protective gear. But she’s nervous about falling, afraid of getting hurt. She goes out with her friend to skate on the driveway. Izzy makes it look so easy. Emma feels very unsteady. She tries, but falls down- three times in a row. She isn’t hurt and doesn’t want to give up, but still feels very anxious. Izzy encourages her, skates alongside her with a steadying hand, and finally thinks to play music which helps Emma relax. Emma can hear the beat, and focusing on the music takes her mind off her fears. Soon she’s able to put one foot in front of the other without falling. At the end of the book she’s happily skating alongside her friend.

Great little story about trying again in spite of initial failure, and overcoming your fears. I like (of course) that wearing safety gear is emphasized- it keeps you from actually getting hurt! and how normal it is to fall, multiple times, when learning. And how great it is to skate to music. It’s true, if you think too much about what your feet are doing, you’re far more likely to fall. Not thinking about what you’re doing, but where you want to go, works better (at least, in my limited experience). Eye the goal.

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
32 pages, 2022

by Ruth Sawyer

Ten-year-old Lucinda lives in New York City, late 1800’s (or early 1900’s, I wasn’t sure). When her parents go abroad for a year, they leave her in the care of two women (teacher and seamstress) who share quarters in a boarding house. Lucinda is glad she doesn’t have to stay with her Aunt, who is quite strict and proper. Her guardians give her quite a bit of leeway, and she spends her time outside of school hours exploring the city on roller skates. She makes friends with all sorts of people from different walks of life- a cab driver, policeman, fruit vendor, an impoverished musician and his family, the daughter of an actress, a rag man who comes across her and a friend picnicking in a vacant lot, etc. All people whom her family would frown upon as not being fit company to associate with, but Lucinda is friendly to all. While not above a bit of mischief and occasional bad behavior, she does her best to be kind and thoughtful to others. She helps the fruit-stand boy fend off some bullies, brings a doctor to tend a poor family’s ill child, and creates a wonderful Christmas experience for a younger girl who never had one. She also puts on a performance of The Tempest, with the help of some friends, using puppets- after an uncle introduces her to Shakespeare. Love of books and new words is a constant, with references and quotes to many that are among my own favorites- The Water Babies, Alice in Wonderland, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind . . . While Lucinda is full of enthusiasm for new experiences and joy of life, her story is not without sorrow- there are two deaths in the narrative- one of strange and unsettling circumstances- which must have been rather shocking when this novel was first published (such things weren’t present in children’s books at the time). And there’s hints that Lucinda herself used to have flares of bad temper, that her family viewed her as a “difficult” child whose trials on them must be endured. One of my favorite parts in the story is when she spends a day outside skating with a bunch of other kids and dogs that join her in a throng, comes home breathless and rosy-cheeked from the exertion and says to her guardian: “I’m just too happy to live . . . . Isn’t it elegant not to have tantrums anymore? I guess half of it is because you don’t expect them, and the other half is roller skates. They use up a lot of energy and iron out a lot of feelings.”

This book should be better known! It was awarded a Newberry Medal, but I’d never heard of it before. Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
186 pages, 1936

retold from the Daniel Defoe original

by Deanna McFadden

Okay, so I knew what I was getting into with this one, and I read it anyway. I was in my husband’s office and saw this on his shelf. Remembered that I had tried reading the original years ago, and didn’t get far. The beginning with all the details on the main character’s family background, his father’s occupation and who knows what else, really bogged me down. I had put it aside as another classic that stylistically I just cannot read. Now I thought: what the heck, it seems like a story I ought to know the basics of, so this version will give me that. It’s a very much abridged and rewritten version, aimed at elementary school kids. Personally, I found it rather dull (hence two stars) as the writing was so straightforward, but I guess that’s what you get.

Warning for SPOILERS here, as I’m going to summarize for myself all the major plot points. Lots of which took me by surprise: I thought the story was all about this young man who gets shipwrecked on an island and lives there alone for years before finally encountering a companion and getting rescued (the scene where he finds a footprint in the sand is in my head from ages ago, no idea where I first came across that). But there’s so much more before all that.

It starts with young Robinson fretting at home, because his parents want him to study and become a lawyer and he just longs for adventure- to go to sea! He finally breaks their hearts by leaving against all their warnings, and on his first voyage is immediately met with storms. That’s frightening, but it doesn’t shake his desire to travel and see the world. The next ship he embarks on goes to Africa where most of the crew succumbs to illness and fever. On a later ship, they get accosted by pirates, he’s taken prisoner, and forced to work as a slave in a foreign land until with two other slaves, he escapes when they’re supposed to be out fishing for their master (they just keep going). They get picked up by an English ship which takes them to Brazil, where Robinson (from selling the fishing boat and earning some wages) buys his own plantation and runs it for two years, with good success. But the old urge for adventure creeps up again and he can’t help finally going on board another ship. This is eight years after his initial voyage.

A good third into the book, Crusoe encounters the storm in the Carribean that strands him on the famous (to us) island. All his shipmates drown. Luckily the ship itself survives in part, driven on the reef, and after the initial shock of finding himself the only survivor, he spends a good two weeks going daily out to the wreckage and bringing back ashore all the supplies he can manage. Then works making himself a tent, and later a better shelter against a cave- though I don’t know why he had to fortify it so well, as he never mentions dangerous animals on the island? and never at this point saw another human being. He’s got just enough food from the broken ship to last him until he figures out how to grow a few crops, and locates fruit to eat, goats to hunt, etc. Teaches himself to make baskets, catches a parrot to keep as a pet, even has a dog that also survived the shipwreck.

About ten years after being alone on the island, he’s stunned to find a human footprint. Terrified, because he assumes it’s from someone who would harm him- “natives” or maybe pirates? He hides, but then doesn’t see another sign of humans for another two years. Finally now we get to the point where Crusoe meets the man he names Friday, when a group of men land on the island with two prisoners along. Crusoe startles them and frees the prisoners, and one becomes his companion- he apparently doesn’t want to leave. The time it takes for the other man to learn to speak English- at first they just communicate with gestures- is really glossed over. The two men work together, eventually building a seaworthy craft and are ready to leave the island for good. Then they encounter another ship coming to shore- this one the crew had mutinied. When Crusoe realizes what happened, he helps the captain take control again, talks most of the crew back to sense, and they sail off together. They leave behind on the island, those two men who had started the mutiny- all set up well for survival what with the shelters, supplies, tamed goats and growing crops that Crusoe had in place. I suppose they deserved the punishment, but after all Crusoe had suffered on the island (he ate well, the worst thing was solitude) it seems cruel he left others to that fate. It was twenty-eight years he had spent on the island.

From what I briefly looked up, the story of Robinson Crusoe was based roughly on the account of a man Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island for four years. I have to wonder how much of the original Defoe story this rewritten one left out, there are parts in particular that I really wanted more explanation of, and lots of details are sorely lacking. But I think all the other details in the original would swamp me, based on the few pages I did get through in my previous reading attempts, and other reviews I’ve seen online. So I’m glad I read this to have a solid picture of the narrative in my head- if I ever do approach Defoe’s novel again, maybe it will be easier going.

Borrowed from a family member.

Rating: 2/5
151 pages, 2006

by Nan Hayden Agle

Nice little book about a dog who personally thinks he’s the best dog ever, but is constantly annoyed that his family members call him by different names. The father calls him by his registered name, Tarr (of Belway Smith), but the mother calls him Sweetie, and the boy he’s so attached to, calls him Cerberus. This boy likes to read, and talks with all kinds of fancy words about high adventures (reminding me a tad of Anne from Green Gables!) Tarr gets very jealous when a neighbor’s new dog gets admired by the family and petted when he comes by. Tarr attacks this other dog to drive it off his property, and is soundly scolded by the family. He’s so hurt by this that he runs away. Gets into all kinds of scrapes, of course. Grabbed by dognappers who try to sell him to a man that supplies animals to laboratories, then to a guy who has a pack of hounds, then finally they succeed with a private gentleman who’s looking for a new bird dog. Tarr by this point is tired of getting hauled around by suspicious-acting people, and starts to feel like he should just settle in with this new family, instead of pining for his old one. Even though they call him Blackie.

But then the gentleman takes him out hunting, and finds out pretty quick he’s not a trained dog as was told, on the contrary, he’s actually very gun-shy. Tarr takes off running at the first practice shot, and never looks back. He heads for home (just like a classic Lassie story) but doesn’t make it all the way, gets caught and put in the animal shelter. Where he gloomily watches other dogs come and go. One day it looks like another family with little kids will adopt Tarr, but then surprise! his own original family shows up at the last minute. They’d seen his picture in the paper, featured as Dog of the Week (just like in Scruffy by Jack Stoneley, which I really must read again and write about here someday). Tarr is relieved to finally go home. He bristles at that neighbor dog again without getting scolded now, his family all call him by the proper name, and he gets to laze on the carpet while his boy reads books, without anyone nagging them. Such a nice ending!

Good, brief story on feeling unappreciated, going through difficulties, the hardships a stray dog can experience, and how much he appreciates home when he finally finds it again. Amusingly enough, all the stuff about the dog comparing himself to other dogs (of different breeds) and feeling upset about his name, made me think of this picture book What Color Is Caesar? by Maxine Kumin which I liked so much it’s still on our downstairs hall shelf. I saved a lot of kid chapter and picture books down there when my children both decided they were too old for those anymore. So many I just couldn’t let go of . . . .

Rating: 3/5
95 pages, 1969

by Kenneth Oppel

Sequel to Silverwing. This story dove into darker material, which I wasn’t really expecting. It also got more mystical, with almost magical things happening (or at least, they really stretched my suspension of belief). But I was so hooked by the story and interested in the characters, I just went with it. So- trying not to give away too much of the storyline but maybe there will be spoilers. Shade the bat has found his colony and reached the hibernation site. It’s no longer a safe haven, though. Owls attack, they have to flee south, they find a human building that pulls them in with enticing bat sounds. Inside is a fantastic artificial forest. Most of the bats think they’ve finally reached a paradise promised by the ancient legends. But Shade is suspicious and alarmed that they can’t exit the building again. He’s determined to find out more- and to his great dismay, he makes some horrific discoveries. The bats’ assumptions about human kindness is all wrong- quite the opposite- they are putting bats (and owls) to their own use, in warfare (even more awful is that this is based on some actual history). By dint of some clever thinking, bravery, help from a friend and a new owl ally, Shade escapes and makes his way to a city that hosts a huge roost of bats under a bridge. They are expecting the beginning of a new war with the owls, mustering forces.

Shade knows they have a much bigger threat to face- because his old enemy the jungle bat has a plan to wake the evil bat god and bring eternal darkness on everyone. It seems hopeless but Shade has to try and stop him (even if the evil god won’t really appear, the carnivorous bats’ machinations will kill a hundred innocent creatures). This ends up with the bats facing more and more horrors- trust me, it gets very bloody and disturbing- this was shelved in juvenile fiction but I would say it should be for YA and up, unless your kid likes reading fairly graphic stuff- like cannibalism, hearts getting ripped out, fighting in piles of dead bodies, and so on. The author isn’t shy about letting some of the characters get killed, either (though more than once someone presumed dead turns out to be alive after all, surprise!) In the end though, it seems they have reached the outcome predicted long ago by the northern bats’ goddess Nocturna- a peace truce made with both the owls and rats, as together they face down the greater enemy.

A lot of other reviews have compared this book to Watership Down. While I saw the similarities, I was reminded more strongly of Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH or Tailchaser’s Song (especially the underworld parts). One thing I forgot to note in my post about the first book- because the bats are color-blind, the author doesn’t use any words for colors in the entire book. I thought this was very well done. I didn’t even notice the first time around (until it was pointed out to me in the author’s note at the end). The descriptions of how the bats use sound to perceive their world, stretching their senses beyond normal abilities even, was also very well done and intriguing to see the world described from such a different viewpoint. At the same time, the bat characters have such ordinary hopes and plans- just to be safe, to find family members again, to impress a girl- it’s very relatable in those ways too. Good story!

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
312 pages, 2000

by Kenneth Oppel

Shade is one of the smallest in his bat colony- a runt. He’s always feeling ignored and pushed around by the other young bats. Wanting to satisfy his curiosity and do something no one else would dare to, Shade stays up through the dawn to catch a glimpse of the sun- which is strictly forbidden. He’s roundly chastised for that and still smarting under the punishment when a new challenge arises- travelling on his first migration. Shade gets separated from the others in a storm and blown off course. Finding his way and reuniting with the colony becomes a nightmare of obstacles as Shade has to cross large bodies of water, figure out navigation by the stars (using memories his mother had shared with him), avoid the dangerous owls (that have a centuries-long grudge against bats) and more. He finds an unlikely companion from another bat species- she’s been ousted by her colony, for wearing a silver band bestowed by humans. Her colony sees this as a curse and a threat. Which confuses Shade, because in his colony, the few bats that got banded were viewed as special, wearing a symbol of peace to come and bats being allowed into daylight in the future (and humans were supposed to help this legend come true). This is part of the book that I found really intriguing, that the different bat groups had their own ideas about what the bands meant- they had to attach meaning to it somehow (kind of like the elephants did in The White Bone). Later in the story Shade and his companion encounter some large predatory bats from the jungle- and they have an entirely different take on things, with a different belief system. Shade is awed by the larger bats’ physical prowess and hopes to enlist their help but something sinister is going on . . . and things get worse when they find themselves in a city and end up underground confronting rats. I won’t relate more, but let’s just say it all ends well, even though there’s tension up to almost the very last page.

This story just blasted along. I liked the characters and found their struggles interesting, even though some things were a bit far-fetched (the owls possess fire, for example). Yes the bats talk to each other and some mystical things happened in the story, but it didn’t feel too out there like some books, just part of a good story. I’m glad I finally read this one, and wish I’d picked it up years sooner!

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
216 pages, 1997

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