We Would NOT Like to Live in 1870

Old Yeller was definitely written for boys. It was published in 1956, when girls pretended to be mommies and boys dreamed of being cowboys. So what did the very modern Reading Divas think of the book? The Divas gave it 5 stars *****-- the highest rating they've given any book so far! And everyone nearly cried at the ending.

For the June meeting, the Reading Divas met at Taltree Arboretum in Valparaiso. They enjoyed the new Railway Garden, a walk through prairie and woods to get the setting of the book, a picnic lunch complete with insistent mosquitoes and book talk.

























We'll read about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for July.


For the August meeting:
What do you read before visiting the World of Fairies Festival? Why, a book about fairies of course! Don't forget to vote!

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cathrynne Valente

The story of September, a girl who flies from her dreary and sad life in Nebraska to Fairyland on the Green Wind. In Fairyland, she meets every sort of wonderful mythical beast (including a wyvern that's half library), eats the most wonderful and strange things, and has the most wonderful and extraordinary adventures and quests.

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Wings by Aprilynne Pike

Fifteen-year-old Laurel has led a sheltered, home-schooled life in a very small town, so when her parents decide to move and enroll her in high school, she has trouble getting used to her new life. A life, as it turns out, that’s not at all like those of other kids. One clear sign is a winglike blossom that blooms on her back. Oh, and her new best friend, the scientifically minded David, reveals under a microscope that her cells are more plant than animal. But it takes an encounter at her old home with the handsome but decidedly different Tamani to convince her that she is a faerie.