I read a "Junie B. Jones" by Barbara Parks yesterday "Shipwrecked". Never read a whole one before and I see why she is so popular with my primary teachers. This one had a journal in it so I'll have to check out another one to see if the format is the same. I know it's lame that I haven't read one before. "Junie" corrects her own spelling in her journal, which I think is so cute. And her vocabulary is splendid for a six-year old! Wow wow Wowie!
Now I am on to "Masterpiece" by Elsie Broach also cute. Beetles and boy, James( I have a James) who are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art duplicating a Durer drawing, with pen and ink. Very much feels like Blue Balliett's book set in Chicago. Poor James has divorced parents with a step father and baby brother too.
So let's see so far of the books I've read so far we have children of divorce (2) motherless child (1) orphaned child (1) sibling loss (1). Some of the titles I am reading are from the Black Eyes Susan Nominees grades 4-6 for this year.
Here's the link
The theme of orphan is very common. We probably don't realize how common. We all relate to someone who is going it alone. Where is the conflict if the protagonist doesn't have to struggle against something? Nineteenth Century popular lit is full of orphans including one of my favorites, "English Orphans" by Mary Jane Holmes the Danielle Steele of her day.
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