Spectrum Language Gr 5 New

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Description: Spectrum Language Gr 5 New

Genre: Social Issues - Friendship; Friendship; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Historical - United States - 20th Century; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century; Reading Group Guide; Fiction; General; Minnesota;

Review: What can one say about perfection?: [...] The url above lists ALL Maud Hart Lovelace's books (including ones for grown-ups, some of which she even wrote along with "Joe"!). But of course the Betsy-Tacy series are for grown-ups, too! :-) I agree with everything everyone's written! Utter joie! What I love about these books is how boys and girls, and then young men and young women, HUNG OUT together (how Julia-of-the-thousand-beaus advises her sister Betsy not to hold a boy's hand because that was being "spooney"!). There is a kiss or two exchanged in this series, but don't tell anyone! How Julia's beau would give Betsy and her friends a dime to get rid of them! Ha ha! The PAIN of love is so well recounted, jealously, lessons learned -- remember how in highschool a few of the girls (Betsy the ringleader) form a "sorority" and how this cuts them off from people and the pain they suffer in this discovery? Remember the goatgirl, the Syrian Village...how they could roam their whole world, safe and free? What one reviewer said about rereading them and finding new gems each time... Ah, yes! Every true gem, when you turn it, dazzles with new sparkles. God bless Maud Hart Lovelace! Look at the Wordsworth poem with which she chooses to set the very first book off ("Betsy Tacy"): There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparell'd in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream