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More Cybils
Right now I'm finishing up NO MORE CREAM PUFFS
Twelve-year-old Madison is a little different from other girls. She loves to play baseball and wants to join her town's baseball league for the summer. Problem is it's 1980 and not many are so accepting of a girl wanting to do 'boy's' sports.
But Madison doesn't let that get her down and tries out for the team. Even when her former best friend Sara doesn't understand and is more into girly things.
I really enjoyed this tale. I liked Madison's spunk and her courage to do something even when others discourage her. The facts of 1980 rang true. I still can't get over how 1980 is now considered historical. Wow, time does fly!
Another book I just finished is MEETING MISS 405 by Lois Peterson.
Tansy just wants things to go back the way they were. Why is her mother gone? And even worse, why does she have to go down the hall to Miss Stella's? Tansy resists having this wrinkly old woman be her babysitter. All the while she wonders when her mother will come home.
Don't let the cover fool you. This book covers a very serious premise--mental illness. I was surprised when I first started reading this book which handles the subject well. Tansy shows the confusion and anger of a child whose mother leaves to get 'help'. The author doesn't cover up the mental illness but has Tansy and her father talk about why her mother needs help and how it's not Tansy's fault.
**Once again, these reviews are only my opinion and don't reflect the views of the other Cybils panelists.
Twelve-year-old Madison is a little different from other girls. She loves to play baseball and wants to join her town's baseball league for the summer. Problem is it's 1980 and not many are so accepting of a girl wanting to do 'boy's' sports.
But Madison doesn't let that get her down and tries out for the team. Even when her former best friend Sara doesn't understand and is more into girly things.
I really enjoyed this tale. I liked Madison's spunk and her courage to do something even when others discourage her. The facts of 1980 rang true. I still can't get over how 1980 is now considered historical. Wow, time does fly!
Another book I just finished is MEETING MISS 405 by Lois Peterson.
Tansy just wants things to go back the way they were. Why is her mother gone? And even worse, why does she have to go down the hall to Miss Stella's? Tansy resists having this wrinkly old woman be her babysitter. All the while she wonders when her mother will come home.
Don't let the cover fool you. This book covers a very serious premise--mental illness. I was surprised when I first started reading this book which handles the subject well. Tansy shows the confusion and anger of a child whose mother leaves to get 'help'. The author doesn't cover up the mental illness but has Tansy and her father talk about why her mother needs help and how it's not Tansy's fault.
**Once again, these reviews are only my opinion and don't reflect the views of the other Cybils panelists.
Meeting Miss 405
I did think the symptoms of depression that Tansy's mom had were a bit narrow to what someone with depression might struggle with. And interesting that her mom was a clean freak. When I'm in depression I don't clean. It totally overwhelms me.
But what I love is the personality they showed of Tansy's mom from comments Tansy makes, and of her dad. It shows the love of the little family unit despite the imperfectness of their situation with the mom's depression.
And of course Stella, the babysitter, is great-she teaches Tansy a lot. And I like Tansy's thought processes, like with the 'trusted other' issue, and the super concentrated-ness.