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Kshakal
The Forty Elephants | Erin Bledsoe
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Pickpick

I loved this book so much… it was so well written and super entertaining! I haven‘t read a historical fiction book that I loved this much in a long time!!! Highly, highly recommend!!

DebinHawaii One of my favorites that I read last year with #SundayBuddyRead 😍 9h
kspenmoll I am with you both-a favorite! @DebinHawaii 9h
Kshakal @kspenmoll and @DebinHawaii I feel like it would make a great movie or mini-series! 9h
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lil1inblue
Newsies | Jonathan Fast
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Watching this with MisterInBlue tonight. I watched this obsessively when it came out. I was 12. It's not a surprise I turned out the way I did. 😅

The haiku is comprised of lines from different songs in the movie.

#haikuhive #haikuaday

TheBookHippie 💙😊 5d
JenlovesJT47 Omg I love this movie! Gonna have to watch it with Jace. Excellent 🙌🏻♥️♥️ 5d
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AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👌🏼🎬🐝💝. 5d
ChaoticMissAdventures I was also 12 and obsessed when this came out!! I wanted to marry Spot Conlon, and was also obsessed with running away to Santa Fe (which was real weird because I was not an outdorsie horse girl 🤣) 5d
catiewithac I watched this so much on the Disney Channel circa 1992! 🥳 5d
dabbe I can't believe I never saw this! 😱 Thanks for intriguing me to add it to my TBW list! 🖤🐝💛 5d
julieclair Clever haiku! 👍🐝🐝 5d
lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 Oh, I think it's a must to share it with the next gen! 😍 5d
lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💓 😍 5d
lil1inblue @ChaoticMissAdventures Love that! 😍 I was personally in love with Jack and wished I could run away to Santa Fe with him. 😂 5d
lil1inblue @catiewithac Right!?!?! 5d
lil1inblue @dabbe I'm curious to hear your reaction if you watch it! I don't know anyone who watched it for the first time as an adult, so the nostalgia factor is always at play. 😊 5d
dabbe @lil1inblue I'll let ya know! 😍 5d
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LiseWorks
Stars and Stripes | Adam Rutledge
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#JulyJazz Stars and Stripes Written in 1896 by John Phillip Sousa. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🤍💙 🇺🇸 2w
Eggs Perfection 💙🇺🇸❤️ 2w
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DebbieGrillo
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Pickpick

I loved this historical fiction novel in verse, set to the backdrop of classical piano music. This is the story of Helena, her family, and her new romantic interest Lucas in the weeks and months proceeding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's weird calling something I remember watching on the news historical fiction.

ShelleyBooksie In verse! I am intrigued. The last novel in verse you recommended was excellent. 3w
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megnews
The Novelist from Berlin | V.S. Alexander
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Pickpick

I didn‘t realize this book was loosely based on the life of an author who went into hiding after her books were burnt and banned by Nazis until I got to the author‘s note at the end. Very interesting story.

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Hooked_on_books
The Pretender | Jo Harkin
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Pickpick

John is 10 when an aristocrat comes to his humble country home to sweep him off to Oxford. Bewildered, he then learns that he is actually royalty and had been hidden away for his safety. I found this a little hard to get into at first, but I‘m glad I stuck with it, as it is SO good! The writing is great and some of the humor stopped me in my tracks. I very enthusiastically recommend this!

squirrelbrain Oh good, I was looking at this the other day, but wasn‘t sure - you‘ve convinced me to give it a go! 3w
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain Hooray! It was such a pleasant surprise—I hope you find it that way, too! 3w
BarbaraBB Stacking Holly! Great review! 3w
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CaitlinR
The King's Messenger | Susanna Kearsley
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Mehso-so

Set in the early seventeenth century, Sir David Moray, who served as Prince Henry‘s Gentleman of the Robes since his infancy, has been accused with poisoning him. King‘s Messenger, Andrew Logan has been tasked with returning him to stand trial. Along the way he finds a moral man and must choose what path to me take; he also finds love. Unlike many, I didn‘t find it all that well researched, but it is entertaining.

JamieArc I really like this author but this one seems different from her others so I‘m hesitant to read it. 1mo
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Felso
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Today‘s book haul

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BC_Dittemore
The Pretender | Jo Harkin
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Harkin‘s debut novel, Tell Me an Ending, was one of my top books of 2022. A quiet, dystopian-lite sci-fi. With The Pretender she‘s going back in time to the Tudor era. I‘ve had this book on hold since it was announced last year.

Alas! I am so overwhelmed with my reading lately—library due dates stress me out!—that I have made the tough decision to return it w/o a read.

I want it to be on people‘s radar though because Harkin has serious talent

BC_Dittemore If anyone here on Litsy gets to read it, give me a tag. I‘d be interested to hear thoughts 2mo
TheKidUpstairs It's definitely on my TBR, but like you my library last is overwhelming at the moment! (Not to mention the books I own giving me dirty looks for ignoring them!) 2mo
BC_Dittemore @TheKidUpstairs sooooo many dirty looks 😬 2mo
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KCofKaysville
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Pickpick

Great story of two brothers from Massachusetts who end up at Gettysburg during Civil War. Has poetic parts but also very gritty. Map is of second day of 3.