pink sneakers n'at: All great achievements require time...
-----------------via Google Blog Search: "Searching for Shona"
..wanted us to post our required reading. Yeah, my list is long (what? I’m a librarian!). -Sarah Louise -Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I’m finding that my descriptions of the books aren’t necessarily helpful as to why one might read the book, so I’m taking a page from Cricket magazine and posting the first lines of the books, and maybe a personal tidbit if I feel inspired.
*Thursday’s Child by Noel Streatfield
Margaret had been discovering all her life that grownups were disappointing conversationalists.
*Skating Shoes (same) One of the “Shoes” books, and my favorite.
-How can ballet shoes NOT be your favorite?
--Ballet shoes *is* up there, but I don't own it, which was a big factor in "is it required?" (Also, I already had two Noel Streatfield books on the list...and so many of them are out of print...)
I guess Ballet Shoes has stayed with me best (I think I liked Skating Shoes vmuch also). I remember one of the older girls maybe the middle one at the end was going to be a writer or historian or aviator or something like that, after her father I think - the girls talked about their futures, what they wanted to be, sitting on some inside steps. what I most remember is the youngest girl (who turned out to be the real lover of dancing) -- she remembered phone numbers with her feet, by dancing them.

Searching for Shona by Margaret J. Anderson.
This is a haunting book about two girls who switch places during WWII. yes haunting.
oh. does the book begin at the end? seems to me that this is older Marjorie, after the war, walking to the gate of Shona-as-Marjorie's home..
Marjorie Malcolm-Scott walked slowly up Willowbrae Road toward the narrow iron gate that opened into Holyrood Park in Edinburgh.