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hutchison1

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:47 pm
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Please could you recommend fiction or non-fiction reading for English girls
aged 14 and 11 on a family holiday to Florida (Everglades etc, rather than
Disney), followed by a brief stop in New York city? I'm thinking
particularly of novels set in those areas, and natural history books about
Florida.

We're familiar with Carl Hiaasen (Florida), also Judy Blume's Fudge books
and Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series (NY).

My 14 year old says that books aimed at a slightly older age group would be
fine.

Thank you very much for your help.

Diana

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:37 pm
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Leonard Marcus wrote an excellent book called Storied City: A Children's
Book Guide to New York City with many good book recommendations. There's
an endless number of kids/YA books with New York settings. I like
Madeleine L'Engle: Camilla and The Young Unicorns come to mind. Paula
Danziger's Remember Me to Harold Square is fun, and they could also read
her London book, Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James. Don't miss From the
Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Lots of historical fiction
set in NY too, like All-of-a-Kind Family (one of my favorite books).

Laurie Amster-Burton

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:03 pm
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:47:35 GMT, "Hutchison Family"
<hutchison.RemoveThis@deletethisbit-bcs.org.uk> wrote:

 >Please could you recommend fiction or non-fiction reading for English girls
 >aged 14 and 11 on a family holiday to Florida (Everglades etc, rather than
 >Disney), followed by a brief stop in New York city? I'm thinking
 >particularly of novels set in those areas, and natural history books about
 >Florida.
 >
 >We're familiar with Carl Hiaasen (Florida), also Judy Blume's Fudge books
 >and Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series (NY).
 >
 >My 14 year old says that books aimed at a slightly older age group would be
 >fine.

For Florida, I suggest _Dogland_ by Will Shetterly.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:51 am
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<hutchison.RemoveThis@deletethisbit-bcs.org.uk> wrote:

 >Please could you recommend fiction or non-fiction reading for English girls
 >aged 14 and 11 on a family holiday to Florida (Everglades etc, rather than
 >Disney), followed by a brief stop in New York city? I'm thinking
 >particularly of novels set in those areas, and natural history books about
 >Florida.

For NYC it's hard to beat The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill or The
Cricket in Times Square by George Selden.

My favorite Florida book is only partly set there: Walter R. Brooks
_To and Again_ (also published as Freddy Goes to Florida). The
first of the magnificent Freddy books, my best childhood fictional
friend.

Of non-fiction on Florida, I always found The Defenders by Ann
McGovern to be very moving. Only the first third of it is set in
Florida, but it tells the story of Chief Osceola and his attempts
to resist the incursions of the white Americans and their ghastly
treatment of the Seminole tribe.

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