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The Girl with the Silver Eyes
The Girl with the Silver Eyes | Willo Davis Roberts
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Katie can make things move with her mind and understand what animals are thinking and one day, suspecting that there are three others with her powers, she runs away to find them.
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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards
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1) My grandfather was a high school math teacher, and my parents looked through the absentee list from his school for name inspiration. So I am technically named after someone who didn't bother showing up for school! 😂

2) I adored the tagged book growing up - a protagonist with my name and the ability to move things with her mind, just like Roald Dahl's Matilda (my other favorite book)? Sign me up!

#TwoForTuesday
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TheSpineView Great story! Thanks for playing! 8mo
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TheSpineView
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Klou 👍 1y
bthegood I had such a crush on Willie Ames as a teenager - what a blast from the past 🙂 1y
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ravenlee
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Nostalgia points; this was a favorite of my sister‘s and I remember begging to read it, and maybe finally just stealing it. Now I have my own copy 😆 and I think it still works, if some parts are a little dated (30 cents to ride a bus?). Katie can move things with her mind, and her silver eyes make people uncomfortable. When someone starts asking too many questions she starts to wonder if there might be more kids like her.

HeyT I remember loving this when I was younger. It‘s the first genre fic that stuck with me after I read it. 3y
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ravenlee
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AND she‘s reading my favorite book from childhood. I don‘t remember noticing any of this when I read this as a kid.

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ravenlee
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When your book character shares your birthday - September 10. I think this is a first for me.

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ravenlee
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And part four of library discards #bookhaul starts with a childhood favorite (tagged). It‘s my sister‘s, so now I have my own copy! Kiddo and I love Witch Mountain (original movie) and while I dislike the movie cover I won‘t quibble with free. I‘ve been wanting to read the other three and they fell into my arms today. What a haul!

Clare-Dragonfly I loved this book and the original Witch Mountain movie too! 😍😍😍 4y
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Spade_ruiz
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Genre : Science Fiction
author : Willo Davis Roberts
Date started : Nov 15
Date finished : Nov 19
Why i chose this book: this book was mostly a mistake will i was choosing. i was looking for a booked called silver eyes at the public library and this is the only book that they had so i had to go for the book that they had.

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Spade_ruiz
Girl with the Silver Eyes | Willo Davis Roberts

Genre : Science Fiction
author : Willo Davis Roberts
Date started : Nov 15
Date finished :
Why i chose this book: this book was mostly a mistake will i was choosing. i was looking for a booked called silver eyes at the public library and this is the only book that they had so i had to go for the book that they had.

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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards
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Day 2: #7days7covers #covercrush

7 days, 7 covers, no explanations. Join in if you want!

silentrequiem Omg this book!!! I read my copy to pieces. 5y
SaunteringVaguelyDownwards This and Matilda were my favorite childhood books. Clearly I just wanted telepathic powers. 😉 5y
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cestmabiologie
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Finally crossing one off my #popsugarreadingchallenge ! This was one of my favourites when I was a kid, so I thought I‘d choose it for my book that makes me nostalgic, but I think it‘ll be “A book that I think should be turned into a movie” instead.

Because you can never have enough movies about kids with telekinesis. #24in48

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No_One
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It had been 30+ years since I read this book! It really stood the test of time. Just as good now as it was then. (Whew!!)
This was the cover art on the old book. 😄😄😄
#LitsyAtoZ #R #BookishMarginalia

BarbaraJean Oh, I loved this book when I was a kid! 7y
No_One @BarbaraJean I read my original copy so many times, the cover fell off! 😄 7y
CatchMyBookBreath I loved this book-still have it with this cover art# 7y
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No_One @CatchMyBookBreath oh you‘re so lucky! 💙 7y
FlowerFairy Oh I loved this one as a child! No idea how many times I read it. Chose it at the school‘s book fair and I still have my original copy with this same cover art. 7y
No_One @FlowerFairy it‘s so nice for me to find so many people who also enjoyed this book! After 30-ish years! Amazing. 🙂💙 7y
Purrfectpages Omg this takes me back! 7y
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No_One
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I first had this book when I was 10-11 years old, back in the early ‘80s. I loved it and read it over and over until the book fell apart. I was thinking about it recently, and decided to buy a new copy. Time to re-read and reminisce! 💙 👧🏽 📚

Heatherfeather I'm always curious if books hold up after time but am too scared to actually test it myself. 😁 7y
No_One @Heatherfeather haha, this is a risk for me, too! For sure the Little House books have held up for me. I will be optimistic. 🙂 7y
SaunteringVaguelyDownwards This and Dahl's Matilda were my favorites when I was young! Clearly I had the glasses and appetite for reading and just wanted the superpowers to go with them. 7y
No_One @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards same here! I don‘t remember Matilda, but I know I read it once. I really related to Katie in this book. I am almost finished - it is exactly as good as I remember. 🙂 7y
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TK-421
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I love it when the characters in a book enjoy books & reading as much as I do ❤️

Nute I like that also. It‘s like an automatic kinship with the character. 7y
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TK-421
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These were the first books to come to mind for #Apples. As a kid, The Girl with the Silver Eyes made me want psychic abilities and The Dollhouse Murders freaked me out, especially since I had a dollhouse in my bedroom. The idea of moving dolls still creeps me out! #Riotgrams

quietjenn Oh, Apple paperbacks we're my favorite as a kid! Looking back now, I suppose they were my first concept of a publisher/imprint, not that I would've known what that was. 7y
stacybmartin Omg the dollhouse murders was one of my favorite creepy stories!! 7y
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ItsAnotherJen
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This seems to make a lot of people's favorite childhood books lists! I have yet to read it, but these first few lines in the description sound promising:

"Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would rather read a book than deal with other people."

#MayBookFlowers And it has an apple on the cover so it counts for today's prompt #fruit ?☺?

monkeygirlsmama I've never heard of it before, but now I'm gonna check it out. 8y
ReadingEnvy Yes my absolute favorite as a kid and then as an adult my eyes turned silver so... Pretty sure I have secret powers. 8y
Bradleygirl Aw I loved this one too! 8y
ItsAnotherJen @ReadingEnvy Silver eyes and secret powers?! Aw man, some people have all the luck! 8y
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TK-421
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I've fallen behind for the #ReadJanuary photo challenge, so I'm doubling up: The Girl on the Train is my pick for both #BookEveryoneButYouHasRead and #GirlintheTitle. Another one that I feel like I'm the only person who hasn't read is Harry Potter & the Cursed Child. More "Girl" titles: childhood fave, The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts, and Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy.

LazyOwl I haven't read HP and the cursed child, I'm not sure I would like the screenplay format 8y
TK-421 @LazyOwl I'm a bit leery about the format too but hoping I will be able to get past it 8y
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ReadingEnvy
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Three fictional characters that are me - a combination of the outlook of the unnamed female anthropologist in Mating, the silver eyes and psychic powers of my favorite childhood novel, and the belief in love of Anne Elliot in Persuasion.

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ReadingEnvy
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In 2nd grade there were three Apple paperbacks I checked out over and over. As an adult, I became a librarian and watched my blue eyes turn silver. Coincidence? #FunFridayPhoto

LeslieO I read Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library to my third graders every year! 8y
daena Silver eyes was my everything!!! 8y
DreesReads I am pretty sure I have silver eyes around here somewhere! 8y
ReadingEnvy @LeslieO yes! That makes me so happy. 8y
ReadingEnvy @daena all the weird kids becoming pen pals was a big part of it for me 8y
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