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    R.I.P. Norma Fox Mazer

    A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving

    Fine Lines Quiz Spectacular: Partial Coverage

    Little Women: The Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

    Down A Dark Hall: Getting The Spirit In The Dark

    Nothing's Fair In Fifth Grade: Pleading The Fifth

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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    10/19/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Norma Fox Mazer
    Awwww, I love Silver. I wish I knew where my copy went, I would so read it again, right now, in her memory. I loved that cover of it. I wanted her sweater.
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    Image of Lolita Hazed Lolita Hazed
    10/19/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Norma Fox Mazer
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Silver was the SHIT!! I thought Patty was SO COOL!! #normafoxmazer
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    Image of mizzmarvel mizzmarvel
    10/19/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Norma Fox Mazer
    God, I loved her books so much; she wrote some of the best, most real teenage girls in YA. RIP, Ms. Mazer. #normafoxmazer
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    Image of I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby
    10/19/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Norma Fox Mazer
    Loved Silver. #normafoxmazer
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    Image of justcallmeangel justcallmeangel
    10/19/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Norma Fox Mazer
    I had to look them up to remember, but I read Taking Terri Mueller and Mrs. Fish, Ape and Me, The Dump Queen. Great stuff. #normafoxmazer
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    10/19/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Norma Fox Mazer
    Oh man. I loved Silver. #normafoxmazer
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    Image of hortense hortense
    10/19/09

    @la.donna.pietra: Me too. One of my favorites. #normafoxmazer
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    10/19/09

    @hortense: Wow; I just reread it this past weekend when I was at my parents' house and found it in my bookcase. It's so frank and honest -- such a great quality in a YA book. I love Silver's voice. #normafoxmazer
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    Image of cait98 cait98
    10/19/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Norma Fox Mazer
    I definitely had and read this book... but I can't remember what it was about. Any takers? #normafoxmazer
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    10/19/09

    @cait98: A girl from the wrong side of town moves into a ritzier school district and makes a bunch of new friends, one of whom is being molested by a relative. Probably the first book I read that involved a recognizable girl crush. #normafoxmazer
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    Image of whatwouldjanedo whatwouldjanedo
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
    When I was in fifth grade this was THE book to read. Almost every girl in the class did a book report on it at some point, including one who made a pop-up book with scenes from the novel. Now the only things I really remember about it were all of Molly's nosebleeds and how her mother attributed them to her being an "adolescent," and when Meg and Molly draw a chalk line across their room.
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    Image of sallyfloyd sallyfloyd
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
    Ben and Maria were my model for what I wanted my marriage and subsequent domestic life to be like. Ben was my template for a husband in 6th grade.

    The part when Meg comes over, weeping, and passes on that Molly asked that the baby not come until she's home from the hospital, then Ben passes on the message via shouting through Maria's belly and says, "Maria and I are determined to have an obedient kid" -- that, to me, was everything I wanted in a husband during a difficult situation.

    (And I'm happy to say I found him.)
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    Image of rocknrollunicorn rocknrollunicorn
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
    This has got to be my favorite YA book ever. And I usually tended to read horror novels. I bought a used library copy last summer and re-read it, and it's still just as good as the first time. I adored Ben and Maria. I think I wanted to be a hippy for the longest time because of them.

    I absolutely agree with your assessment of death in YA lit, Lizzie, but I would like to point out what my copy of the book has under the author's bio:
    "Though the book is not autobiographical, facing the death of her only sister when she was young made it possible for [Lois Lowry] to write about the subject with a good deal of understanding."

    When I read that last time (I don't believe my original copy of the novel had such an in-depth author bio), I was completely unsurprised. Compared to, say, a Lurlene McDaniel death novel, this book is amazing.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    08/01/09

    @rocknrollunicorn: Lurlene McDaniel writes anything other than death novels?!
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    Image of JennyTeflon JennyTeflon
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
    The image that sticks with me the most from A Summer to Die is an ill Molly lying on a sofa in the kitchen. I dream of having a sofa in my kitchen for just such a purpose. The painted eggs and the lawyer in the hippie's wedding photos have stuck in my mind as well.
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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
    oooh I just got back from Barnes and Noble and Shelf Discovery is very prominently displayed on their new paperbacks table, which made me unnecessarily over-excited.
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    Image of corruptsuperspy corruptsuperspy
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
    Is this the book in which the dying girl gets a nosebleed and her sister wakes up and there's blood all over the wall and the bed? Because I read that book a few times and that was a vivid passage.
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    Image of rocknrollunicorn rocknrollunicorn
    07/31/09

    @corruptsuperspy: Yes it is. And the image of this scene in my head has haunted me my entire life.
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    Image of RudyWaltz RudyWaltz
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
    Oh, man. I actually just re-read this not so long ago and was thrilled that it's as wonderful as I remember it being.

    Yes, the characters are much more mature than normal YA characters, but in a very true way. I love that although Meg feels an inadequacy when comparing herself with her sister, it's not in a way that makes her envious of being beautiful for the sake of being more visible....instead she's envious of the way being beautiful sort of makes life easier for a while.
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    Image of bangers bangers
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Summer To Die: The Nature Of Unleaving
    I read the title as "the Nature of Unleavening" and hoped it was a YA book on the intricacies of baking matzoh and the struggles of being a young Jewish girl studying for her Bat Mitzvah.
    I can dream...
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