Comments on: New solo? Need suggestions! http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:57:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: kara http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-156 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:57:39 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-156 So many cool suggestions! I will keep these all in mind. :) Thanks everyone!

]]> By: L. Oliver http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-155 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:41:51 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-155 How about the Tom Swift series or Oliver Optic?

]]> By: Cathy Shafer http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-140 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:38:31 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-140 Maybe The Wonderful Electric Elephant by Frances Trego Montgomery…IF you can find a copy. It was published in 1903 so it should be in the public domain. However, it is also fairly difficult to find a copy of it. I read it from my great-Aunt Zink’s library when I was a child.

Also, perhaps some of the Bobbsey Twins series…or the various Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins (like the Scotch Twins, The Belgian Twins, etc.)?

Then there’s a whole series of Boy Scout/Pony Riders/young military type stories that you can find over at http://www.gutenberg.org that you might want to consider .

Cathy

]]> By: hugh http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-59 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:38:59 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-59 shane is THE great cowboy book. about a good-hearted family (mom, dad, son) of homesteadders on the frontier. one day, a lone cowboy comes thru looking for work, starts helping out on the farm. turns out he’s a sharp-shooter on the run from his past.

son is awed. bad guys turn up. father & shane become great friends. mother & shane start to fall in love. bad guys get really bad. shane beats them.

and then leaves because he and the mother are in love, and he doesn’t want to break up the wonderful good-hearted family.

And actually, it was one of the first audiobooks I ever heard.

Just did a search: Shane isn’t by zane grey, but rather: Jack Schaefer. Ooops! (1949)

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-46 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:44:58 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-46 I adore the Swiss Family! I looked for a good public-domain translation a few months ago and couldn’t find one I liked, but I will keep looking!

Edit: Ooooo this one feels right. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/sfrbn10.txt How did I miss it before? Someone else just finished reading Swiss Family for librivox, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do it too :)

]]> By: beck http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-45 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:26:00 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-45 Swiss Family Robinson?

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-42 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:45:06 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-42 Ooooo, Kathy, that looks great!

And Gina, The Jungle Books are a good idea too.  Keep the suggestions coming — what I don’t read next, I’ll put into my mental queue for next time :)

]]> By: Kathy http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-41 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:32:45 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-41 Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner?

http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/37/frameset.html for some information.

The kids and I loved this book. (We “studied” it in my own 9th grade class, and then I read it to C & J when they were old enough.)

]]> By: Gina http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-40 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:58:05 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-40 Maybe the first and second Jungle books, or Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott. Little Women would be good as well, though that’s girly. Those are my suggestions. *smiles*

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-39 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:47:19 +0000 http://kayray.org/2006/09/12/new-solo-need-suggestions/#comment-39 Thanks, Hugh! The Young Pitcher is a “boy” book for sure! What is this “Shane” of which you speak?

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