Kids Book of The Day:
The Box-Car Children (Illustrated): Warmhearted Family Classic
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
4.7 stars – 1,110 reviews
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Here’s the set-up:
The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. When a local baker and his wife learn that the children are orphans, they plan to send the children to live with their grandfather, but the children have been brought up to fear their grandfather, whom they have never met, because he did not like their parents’ marriage. But their grandfather turns out to be a wealthy and kind man. He adopts children and moves the beloved boxcar to his backyard so they can use it as a playhouse.
Today’s Book of The Day is sponsored by this week’s Kids’ eBook of The Week:
Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
4.7 stars – 1,516 reviews
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Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:
It’s no secret that Harriet the Spy is a timeless classic that kids will love! Every day can be an adventure if you just look carefully enough! Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together? “What the novel showed me as a child is that words have the power to hurt, but they can also heal, and that it’s much better in the long run to use this power for good than for evil.”—New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot