Our 6th graders were lucky enough to participate in a Skype visit with author Natalie Lloyd! This was the first Skype visit I had organized and it was AWESOME! Natalie was the perfect person to bring into the classroom. After I had read her first book, A Snicker of Magic, I knew I wanted to introduce her to my students.
I was sad when the book ended and it stayed with me after finishing it. Some of my GOLDEN LINES from A Snicker of Magic include:
I was sad when the book ended and it stayed with me after finishing it. Some of my GOLDEN LINES from A Snicker of Magic include:
- And then that strange, golden rain light shone warm and pretty over Oliver’s books. I wondered if the sun had missed the books, had waited as long as it possibly could to shine over those spines again. I knew how that felt, to love a story so much you didn’t just want to read it, you wanted to feel it. (76)
- remembering is still important though, no matter if its good or bad. (84)
- The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I’ve learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the way they say their name. I think that’s one of the best feelings in the world, when you know your name is safe in another person’s mouth. When you know they’ll never shout it out like a cuss word, but say it or whisper it like a once-upon-a-time. --Felicity (85-86)
- Make sure you always find out both sides of a story before you decide what’s true. –Oliver (96)
- hope didn’t fade when I walked past Jewell’s station. Hope didn’t fizzle or flicker or burn out. Hope isn’t the same as other words. Hope holds steady. –Felicity (174)
- A factalactus is a truth that hurts a little bit, that prickles and stings, like you tried to shake hands with a cactus flower. But just because it hurts doesn’t make it less true. –Felicity (262)
- Everything you touch, everything you smell, everything you taste, every picture you see—all of that has potential to call up a sad memory. You can’t choose what comes up first. But you can choose to replace it with something good. I choose to think on the good parts.’ –Mama (265)
- Fear always finds you no matter what, she says. And it growls louder and grows bigger, the longer you run away from it. –Felicity about Aunt Cleo (268)
- There was no magic in the world more powerful than that kind of love. (280)
- If you’re brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories…there’s no curse in the world that has any power over you.(280)
- I’ve collected whole constellations of words. But these words are my favorites: Mama, Cleo, Boone, Frannie, Roger, and Biscuit. I wouldn’t know anything about love if it weren’t for them. No matter what happens, or what I do, or how far apart we are, I know they love me. And if you say ‘I love you,’ and you mean it, then love makes up for a wholelifetime of mistakes. That’s some kind of magic.—Felicity (282)
- I can’t see much good in carrying regrets around like keepsakes. (298)
- Home isn’t just a house or a city or a place; home is what happens when you’re brave enough to love people. –Felicity (302)
- It’s so weird how life is so full of moving around—people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person’s going to steal your heart. You never know which place is going to settle your soul. All you do is look. And hope. And believe.(306-307)
- Because I’m convinced that Midnight Gulch can’t be the only magical town in the world. I bet there’s a snicker of magic on every street, in every old building, every broken hear, every word of a story. Maybe it’s hidden away and you need to look harder for it. Or maybe the magic is right there, right in front of you, and all you have to do is believe. (309)
Keep your eye on this up and coming amazing author! I am confident you will be seeing her around for quite some time!
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