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This is something I found over on
Just Another Book Addict =), and I thought I'd do my own. There are so many great books out there that get overlooked (especially if they've been out for a while)!
Every Saturday, you share (recommend) a book, preferably one that you haven't reviewed yet. It's just a way to get other books out into the blogging world. This is NOT a review.
Today I'm going to recommend the five-book Aviva Granger series by
Jeanne Betancourt.
When ten-year-old Aviva comes home from camp to find her parents have separated, she is afraid that instead of being a two-family child, she'll be a two-bedroom, no-family child.
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When I was about eight or nine, I read the first book in this series about a girl named Aviva who was a child of divorce. I guess I found it fascinating because it was a totally foreign concept to me. My parents weren't divorced. I didn't even know of any kids whose parents were divorced! So the idea of shared custody, where the child spends time at each parent's house, seemed fascinating.
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The series begins with
The Rainbow Kid. The book is so titled because Aviva likes rainbows and has them on all her stuff -- not because one or both of her parents is gay (that would explain the divorce, I guess... but that's not the case here!). She loves animals, and throughout the series she takes care of a number of pets: her sheepdog, Mop (in
The Rainbow Kid); her friend's turtle (in
Turtle Time); and a new puppy (in
Puppy Love).
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I really liked the way the characters were written, and I liked her friend Josh (this was about at the time when I started getting crushes on boys). The series takes place over a few years, and Aviva is in eighth grade (I think) by the events in
Puppy Love.
I could
not find pictures of all of these books (how frustrating!). In case you decide to search these out, either at the library or at the used-book store, here's what to look for:
The Rainbow Kid (purple cover featuring Aviva and Mop)
Turtle Time (pink cover featuring a sad-looking Aviva and the turtle)
Puppy Love (blue cover featuring Aviva, Josh, and a puppy)
Crazy Christmas (red cover featuring Aviva and Josh ice-skating)
Valentine Blues (blue cover featuring Aviva and a boy... Josh?)
The only one I can't vouch for is
Valentine Blues, since it came out when I was too old for the series. I never even knew it existed until this past year. But I really enjoyed all the others, and they're some great middle-grade reads... if you can find them!
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