The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I have edited this caption multiple times at a loss for the words I want to say. I am sorry to get religious and political here but I feel I have to speak up. I will leave it at this: I am an evangelical Christian fundamentalist. And my heart breaks daily that these sentiments from the mid 1850s are still true. Love your neighbor as your self. Love. Love. Love! Please!

I can‘t believe I‘m the first to post about this book! Im not a huge nonfiction reader but I‘m a third of the way through and it‘s been fascinating stuff we don‘t learn in school. There is a BBC mini series on YouTube too. #firstlinefridays

A little late. I got 14. 3 favs are the tagged which I read sooo many times, Bud not Buddy, and The Westing Game which I also read many times. 3 I think should have been in there (so hard to choose): Elijah of Buxton, Jefferson‘s Sons, The War that Saved my Life. But there‘s so many. 1 I want to read: Walk Two Moons because it was my daughter‘s fav when she was young. #tlt

I read all these in the last few months. #sundayfunday fascism = not very fun

I‘m a week late but here it is. This was between a pick and a so so for me as most of my December holiday reads are because it‘s the only time of year I read fluffy romance. I‘d rate this a little better than many because I did like the incorporation of all 3 holidays. #sundayfunday

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Oof.

#firstlinefridays

This is amazing. “We have so much more in common than what separates us.”

Every page of this book has wisdom to share.

True?

January Reads. Not much for me but I may be coming out of a year long reading slump.

Same Daunis. Same.

The children make a swimming hole. They all go to work picking cherries for the Dr. And Henry wins a race. The dr seems to be trying to get them together with their grandfather without being conspicuous. What do you think?
Sorry I‘m not hosting so well. Have had a lot going on.

I love coming across recycled artwork. The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden had some great displays and I loved this Bedtime Stories, a bed made from books.

Late August wrap up. Can‘t seem to keep up with anything lately.

Ch 5&6. The children dig for treasure lake for their home in the dump and fix it up while Henry is away. Henry found a job. But there is another noise in the woods and we don‘t know what it is this time.

From yesterday: Mystery solved! The noise in the woods was a dog that the children quickly befriend.

Another walk down memory lane begins October 1. All welcome to join this chapter a day readalong.

Chapter three ends on a cliffhanger after Jessie finds a boxcar for their home and Henry goes to town for milk. Who is in the woods?

I‘m sure glad the kids got away from that awful baker‘s wife.

Little late posting our first day. I was on the road earlier. In the first chapter, we meet siblings Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet as they stare hungrily at bread in a bakery. They tell the baker‘s wife their parents are dead and they don‘t want to go to their grandfather. The baker‘s wife wants to keep the 3 oldest to work for them but plan to take Benny to the Children‘s Home. The kids overhear and leave in the middle of the night. 👇🏻

Charlotte‘s eggs hatch but most of her babies take off on the wind. Three stay behind and Wilbur tells them of how he and their mother were such great friends. 😭
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