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Panda
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07-15-2005

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
I love him too!!!!

Kc103
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07-13-2004

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 5:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
Vacanick, I like your tree. The little snowman looks like one that I have. :-)

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
wargod, i found some at claire's. it is a teeny place so...

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 7:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh you know what Beckie, lol, I may actually have seen them at Claires but not seen them, if you know what I mean. We were there on Monday looking for jewelry boxes (yes I suck, I bought my nieces jewelry boxes instead of making them, lol) but that's all we were looking for. While I glanced at other stuff, I was really just looking for the jewelry boxes.

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 9:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
advice requested---

I picked up an angel from the angel tree in our mall. Little girl wants Barbies and Mystery Books.

Is there a book or series out there that is really hot? She is eleven, but I am guessing from the barbie request she is a young eleven.

thanks in advance.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 10:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Junie B Jones series books, little paperbacks. You can get 4-5 book sets for under 20.00. They are really funny for that age and teach good lessons

Nanalinda
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08-06-2005

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 11:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nanalinda a private message Print Post    
Christy,my granddaughters enjoy the Nancy Drew mystery books & the A-Z mystery series. They are 8yrs old so may be a little too easy for an 11yr old but you could check them out.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 11:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I'd be careful with Junie B. They are great books and lots of fun, but they're a little younger (they start when Junie B goes to Kindergarten) and easier to read books. I still buy the occassional one for Kota (10, 5th grade) and my oldest niece (9 and 3rd grade) and they're really cute and funny. But, I probably wouldn't buy them for Kota except that because they are easier to read, they are perfect for her to practice reading outloud since she has issues with that. My niece has a learning disability and reads at a 1st grade level and Junie B is one she can read on her own.

I'm not saying they're not good books for the child you are buying for, they're great books and I enjoy them with the girls, but if this little girl is asking for books for Christmas she's probably a more advanced reader than Kota and my niece and they might be too easy for her.

Unfortunately, neither of my kidlets were ever into mystery books. Caleb loved the Goosebumps series(a little scary) and sci-fi and Harry Potter type books. I just picked up some High School Musical, Hannah Montana, and Camp Rock books and those are right up her alley. I'm drawing a blank unless you go for something older like Nancy Drew (or the Hardy Boys.)

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins, and the sequel Rose in Bloom, all are by Louisa May Alcott and IMHO you can't go wrong with her. They may be old fashioned but they are classics.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 7:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Nancy Drew!!!!!!!!!!!

Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 8:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
My niece who is 15 really likes anything by Kathryn Reiss; Dreadful Sorry, The Glasshouse People, Time Windows. She has written a lot of mystery and suspense books for teens.
Does she like the Twilight Books? Those are real hot right now too with the teenagers.

She might be too young for them, since I just noticed her age. How about Goosebumps? And you can really never go wrong with Nancy Drew.

ETA: My favortie set was The Boxcar Kids when I was a kid. Just looked too and apparently they also have a mystery collection too! Link to KidsRead

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 11:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Nancy Drew!!!!!!!!!!!

(Hell, if I still had my Nancy Drew books, I'd still be reading them! :-))

BTW, one of my all time favorite books when I was a little girl was "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn." It's long, but it's well written, and one of those books that you want to revisit as you get older (I reread it about 10 years ago). If any young girl is a good reader, it's a good book.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
War, aahhh it's been awhile, thx for reminding me that those books are for younger girls (and boys, Dylan really enjoyed them, he likes the funny :-))

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 11:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
and check out Judy Blume books, too.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 11:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Oh yeah--Judy Blume!!

Also Judy Moody--My 9 year old, who is about a year behind in reading, loves those!! (And the main character is a girl, which normally he does not like too much.)

And the other series he loves (unfortunately there's only like 2 books so far--the third releases on Jan 12ish) is Diary of a Wimpy Boy--but that may be too boyish.

He never got into Junie because by the time he could read those books, he was in 2nd and 3rd grade and those books are based in kindergarten and 1st grade...

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

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Magic Treehouse series (if that has not been mentioned yet....)

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

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Oohhh Nicholas loved the Magic Treehouse series. Good pick!

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
The Wayside School stories are quite humorous, too. The kids I read with like those.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Oh Ladytex, I loved those. Those and the boxcar children, and the Indian in the cupboard, awesome!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Judy Bloom is great. Never read the Wayside School stories.

Christmas spirit and all that, I know we should be kinder more than ever this time of year, but I really wanted to smack this young woman upside the head today.

Dakota still believes in Santa, she doesn't care what her friends say, she believes. Darren and I had talked about getting Caleb some guitar picks for stocking stuffers, but I ended up at the music store with Kota today and decided I'd just wrap them up for him. She'd catch on pretty quick if she was with me when I bought them then found them in his stocking!

We looked around the store, I picked up a couple sets of them along with a small pick case (cuz I'm tired of finding the damn things all over the house) then went to check out. Girl rings me up and asked, "Oh are these for a stocking stuffer?" Argh! No, I said, gift for my son and she went on doing what she was doing. Kota hasn't mentioned it yet, but why on earth do people have to talk about stuff like that around kids? I'm always pretty careful around kids about Santa and stocking stuffers cuz ya just never know which ones still believe!

Neko
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08-03-2001

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 9:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Neko a private message Print Post    
My mom has always been the one to stuff my stocking. Santa was never the one to do it.
Maybe it was the same with her.

I would have probably asked the same thing, to make conversation, and never realised anything was wrong with it.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 10:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Me too. Never even thought that "stocking stuffer" was exclusive to santa... (Whatever is small is put into the stocking. Sometimes it's from Santa and sometimes it's from me & dh...)

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 1:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
Many thanks to those with book ideas....loved the walk down memory lane with books we loved as children. And ideas that your children love.

Mame, there is another LMA book I read over and over....title escapes me.... a poor cousin come to visit...

When I was at the bookstore, I asked the salesperson for help. She suggested a couple of things and then used her computer for more thoughts. As she was doing this she mentioned Nancy Drew...but in a kind of negative way. She seemed to think that the series was hard to relate to for todays kids.

I know it was old fashioned when I read it..... any thoughts?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 2:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Ah, here Santa has always stuffed the stockings. He brings the one gift the kids want most and does the stockings.

Nancy Drew may be a bit dated, but probably no more than Scooby Doo (the older ones.) Dakota hasn't really gotten into them yet so it's been many years since I read them.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 2:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Forgot to mention our weekend holiday plans are to go to the metrolink station and watch the Polar Express train come in or go through town or something. I think it's actually stopping cuz sis is all about getting over to the station Sunday night.

Get the feeling I have no idea what I'm talking about, lol? I don't! Sis asked me today if we were going to go with them and I drew a blank because she was asking me like I knew what she was talking about. It is possible she mentioned it and I blanked on it, but nothing about it rung a bell. I think it's more likely she forgot to ask me about it and thought she did, lol.

That'll be Sunday night. Told my nieces they could come spend the night after that, we'll work on their Christmas gift project for their parents then. My littlest nephew and niece came over tonight while their parents finished up shopping. We didn't do any crafts though, cuz he was just too wound up and more interested in playing. Besides, I was busy enjoying babysitting the baby for a while, lol.