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Muggie Maggie, by Beverly Cleary
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Muggie Maggie, by Beverly Cleary

Maggie Schultz’s third grade classmates are excited about learning cursive, but Maggie decides that she doesn’t want to have any part of it.  The first day, her teacher compares cursive writing to a rollercoaster.  While the other students are practicing loops and curves, Maggie draws rollercoasters all over her paper.  At home, she studies her…

Little Blog on the Prairie, by Cathleen Davitt Bell
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Little Blog on the Prairie, by Cathleen Davitt Bell

Gen Welsh rolls her eyes and throws a fit when her mother announces that the family will spend their summer vacation at Camp Frontier.  Of course, Gen’s adverse reaction has no effect on her mother.  All too soon, Gen finds herself handing over her iPod, make-up, clothes, and all other modern accoutrements so that she…