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zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce: to this day. I keep a healthy distance from bee hives - killers of precocious youths. more »
The Queen of No: I remember announcing to my entire class: "IT'S LIKE IN 'MY GIRL'!" God, I was obnoxious. But yeah, this book was so sad. I miss reading this kind of ... more »
lilbobbytables: Oh god. I remember this book. This, and Bridge to Terabithia, destroyed me as a child. This I read at home at least, with mama tables close by to moni... more »
ShowOrTell: The stages of grief! My sixth-grade Reading teacher drilled us on these, mainly because all the books we read were kid-tragedy (Terabithia, Sounder, ... more »
Luckwouldhaveit: I think of this book whenever I see a white crayon (the most useless crayon in the box, imho), because of the scene where Jamie's little sister says m... more »
slowpoke.r: Wow. I had completely and totally forgotten this entire book until reading this post. I guess I just blocked it out, or it was pushed down by Bridge t... more »
oudemia: I've basically never recovered from buying this from the Bookmobile. more »
save jinger: Between this and My Girl, bees were definitely the scariest animal of my childhood. more »
hatepaperdoll: I wouldn't even let myself think about this book for a long time because of the whole writhing on the ground dying thing. You know what Jamie probabl... more »

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A Taste Of Blackberries: Only The Goofs Die Young
Welcome to 'Fine Lines', the feature in which we give a wrinkled look at the books we loved as youth. This week, Lizzie Skurnick rereads Doris Buchanan Smith's A Taste of Blackberries', which gave readers everywhere a fear of hives. More »

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