I was all about Frances Hodgson Burnett at that age. I wore out A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. Oh, and My Side of the Mountain, by Patricia Craighead George - but that's got a boy protagonist, so maybe not.
Like Fox, I was also all over LM Montgomery and Laura Ingalls Wilder, but there are some problematic bits in those. Still, I think kids should learn to read stuff from other time periods and recognize problematic customs when they see them -- but that's just my $.02.
Speaking of problematic, I was also reading the original Grimm's Fairy Tales at about that age.
And oh! The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi, is one I bought in a YA frenzy a few years ago. Plucky American girl solves mystery aboard merchant vessel in the early 1800s. Fun stuff. Looks like they're making a movie of it?
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Date: 1/27/10 01:28 am (UTC)Like Fox, I was also all over LM Montgomery and Laura Ingalls Wilder, but there are some problematic bits in those. Still, I think kids should learn to read stuff from other time periods and recognize problematic customs when they see them -- but that's just my $.02.
Speaking of problematic, I was also reading the original Grimm's Fairy Tales at about that age.
And oh! The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi, is one I bought in a YA frenzy a few years ago. Plucky American girl solves mystery aboard merchant vessel in the early 1800s. Fun stuff. Looks like they're making a movie of it?