I had known about Sally Ride thanks to the constant Facebook friendslist updates, but didn't find out about Margaret Mahy until very late last night.
I saw her first, nearly as soon as I woke up in the morning; Sally Ride was the late, unpleasant surprise.
My copy is packed away with most of my other books until sometime in early September, and now I wish I'd kept it in my Books-Not-To-Be-Packed-Because-I-Might-Need-Them bag instead.
Libraries!
I read The Changeover so young, I had no idea who'd written it or what most of it was about and discovered it again in middle or early high school with the image of the stamp and the smell of peppermint. It's on my shelf. The Tricksters is the one that haunted me; it reminded me of Diana Wynne Jones, the way identities kept shifting out from underneath the characters at every turn and something about the protagonist's family. I haven't read it in years. I couldn't reconstruct the plot if you paid me. I just hope I can find my copy.
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I saw her first, nearly as soon as I woke up in the morning; Sally Ride was the late, unpleasant surprise.
My copy is packed away with most of my other books until sometime in early September, and now I wish I'd kept it in my Books-Not-To-Be-Packed-Because-I-Might-Need-Them bag instead.
Libraries!
I read The Changeover so young, I had no idea who'd written it or what most of it was about and discovered it again in middle or early high school with the image of the stamp and the smell of peppermint. It's on my shelf. The Tricksters is the one that haunted me; it reminded me of Diana Wynne Jones, the way identities kept shifting out from underneath the characters at every turn and something about the protagonist's family. I haven't read it in years. I couldn't reconstruct the plot if you paid me. I just hope I can find my copy.