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Hello,

I’m looking for a good fiction adventure story (novel) for a Grade 5/ Grade 6 student… something with good Catholic morals though not obviously Catholic (I don’t think the student is Catholic). Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe something easy to find but not like the books so popular today. Nothing with supporting witchcraft etc.

Thanks! 🙂
 
Monica4316 said:
Hello,

I’m looking for a good fiction adventure story (novel) for a Grade 5/ Grade 6 student… something with good Catholic morals though not obviously Catholic (I don’t think the student is Catholic). Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe something easy to find but not like the books so popular today. Nothing with supporting witchcraft etc.

Thanks! 🙂
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I’d say the Chrionicles of Narnia and The Hobbit.
 
Monica4316 said:
Hello,

I’m looking for a good fiction adventure story (novel) for a Grade 5/ Grade 6 student… something with good Catholic morals though not obviously Catholic (I don’t think the student is Catholic). Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe something easy to find but not like the books so popular today. Nothing with supporting witchcraft etc.

Thanks! 🙂
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How about Laura Ingles Wilder’s Little House books? Not Catholic, but should be easy to find, either new or used. 🙂 🙂
 
Monica4316 said:
Hello,

I’m looking for a good fiction adventure story (novel) for a Grade 5/ Grade 6 student… something with good Catholic morals though not obviously Catholic (I don’t think the student is Catholic). Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe something easy to find but not like the books so popular today. Nothing with supporting witchcraft etc.

Thanks! 🙂
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How about “The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman. I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it prior to having my son (4th grade) read it. He is enjoying it now.
 
Empress Theresa

According to an Amazon Customer Review,
a mother bought it for her* eight year old daughter *who liked it! :eek:

I wouldn’t have believed an eight year old could understand the story.
There must be something about Theresa this young girl can identify with.
 
Although not really adventure novels, Richard Peck’s two books: A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder are wonderful stories about children’s visits to their Grandma in the 1930’s.
Daniel Pinkwater wrote a book called Lizard Music and one called Borgel that are funny.
 
5th-6th grade. Been a long time…

One adventure book I remember getting at the time was Issac Asimov’s novelization of Fantastic Voyage. Religion was slightly touched upon, but for the most part it was just a good mystery/adventure.

Other books I liked at that time were the SF novels of A.E. Van Vogt. Even less religion in most of them, but definitely good vs. evil. My recommendation is The Weapon Makers and the Weapon Shops of Isher. They still excite me, while I have problems with some of his other books now.

I also read (and bought with my own money at the time) The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Loved Holmes at that time. I don’t remember him as obnoxious or anti-social as the current depictions of him on TV show him.

And finally, for just plain adventure (but an attitude towards violence that probably doesn’t go over well now-a-days) I loved the pulp novels of the Shadow. (One of the first I read, The Ghost Makers was about a scam run with a Spiritualist front. Having read a biography of Harry Houdini, I knew a little about the Spiritualist movement. The Shadow books were mostly written by a stage magician, and in this book he described how the mediums did their tricks during seances. Cool stuff for a 6th grader.)

Tom A.
“The man with a thousand faces – with no face of his own!” - The Black Master by Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson), 1931.
 
CAT

I can’t read your website.

Blue text on a blue background? :bigyikes:

Really, now! :confused:
 
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CAT

I can’t read your website.

Blue text on a blue background? :bigyikes:

Really, now! :confused:
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I’ve never had any complaints before. And lots of kids, especially girls, love my skating novels.

I’ll admit, it’s an old website and I haven’t kept up with it. And I’m no graphic design expert. Sorry to hurt your eyes.

But I kind of get the feeling that you’ve already decided that you’re not interested in anything that Cat writes. Thanks anyway. Have fun seeking out books for the kids. Lots of good ones available!
 
I’ve never had any complaints before.
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Probably 999 out of 1,000 people who look at your unreadable website wash their hands of it immediately and you never hear from them.
 
“Treasure Island” by R.L. Stevenson is a great adventure story and teaches morals (don’t be a pirate, don’t steal, that kind of thing 😉 )
 
My kids like Roald Dahl.

DD loves to read, she greatly enjoyed James and The Giant Peach , The Witches and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
 
empther said:
Probably 999 out of 1,000 people who look at your unreadable website wash their hands of it immediately and you never hear from them.
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That’s kind of mean. 😦 Golly.

Although there are exceptions, 999 out of 1000 people who look at my website are skaters, coaches, or parents. Most of them have the gumption to stick with skating no matter how many times they fall (or watch their kids fall). So most of them figure out a way to read my website and buy my novels.
 
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CAT

Your website disappeared from your signature.
Updating it?
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No, I’m ashamed of it after what people on this thread said.

I told my husband about this thread, and he reminded me that the reason we went with blue is that it is the color of ICE at many skating rinks (although most rinks nowadays have white ice).

Maybe that’s why there are so few people who ice skate. They walk into the ice rink and their eyes hurt, so they walk out again. 🙂

empther, I am planning to start a synchronized skating blog sometime this summer, and I will use the blog to promote my novels, and probably occasionally get in trouble with United States Figure Skating over certain issues that I’m not afraid to discuss. 🙂 I will make sure that my blog doesn’t have unreadable color combinations.

For anyone who is interested, I’m definitely a better writer than website designer. My novels are appealing to non-skaters as well as skaters. One of my biggest “fans” is a retired schoolteacher (Catholic) who has no skating background.
 
Cat said:
No, I’m ashamed of it after what people on this thread said.

I told my husband about this thread, and he reminded me that the reason we went with blue is that it is the color of ICE at many skating rinks (although most rinks nowadays have white ice).

Maybe that’s why there are so few people who ice skate. They walk into the ice rink and their eyes hurt, so they walk out again. 🙂

empther, I am planning to start a synchronized skating blog sometime this summer, and I will use the blog to promote my novels, and probably occasionally get in trouble with United States Figure Skating over certain issues that I’m not afraid to discuss. 🙂 I will make sure that my blog doesn’t have unreadable color combinations.

For anyone who is interested, I’m definitely a better writer than website designer. My novels are appealing to non-skaters as well as skaters. One of my biggest “fans” is a retired schoolteacher (Catholic) who has no skating background.
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Don’t take it personally. I have done the same thing with websites many times before. :o I always want to make it fancy, but I find myself always coming back to the simple dark text on a light background. Now, I mostly use WordPress and go with the default color schemes that are selected by people with a much better eye for that sort of thing than I have. 😛
 
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