The Big Long List of Good Books for Children {Grades 4 – 6}
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She said that’s how she’ll always remember me.
That the picture of me as a young girl will be forever imprinted on her mind.
She was an old family friend and has known me since I was in second grade. In other words, for a very long time.
“What,” I asked her. “What memory would that be?”
Rather curious to hear her answer.
I remember you with a duster in one hand and a book in your other, while you slowly – every-so-slowly – worked through your chores. Dusting and reading. But mostly reading.
I could picture it too. Almost as if it was another young child and not really me at all.
I don’t have any memory of that. I mean, how you can remember something if you were too busy living it?
Because that’s how it was with me and books.
They were like old friends and new worlds and distant times.
And I loved it.
Now I watch our own kids getting lost in a book. Reading for hours on the couch.
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