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What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?

The Eight-Year-Old has been quite concerned by news that her cousin’s cat has been peeing all over their house. This is not approved cat behavior. The Eight-Year-Old is clearly mulling over potential causes. I’m sure that’s why I caught her reading the ASPCA Cat Care Manual and The Pet Vet series by Darrel and Sally Odgers this week.

What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?

Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old explores a new topic at the hands of a trusted author (Bruce Coville’s The Unicorn Treasury), shares her favorite book of the week with Mommyo (Socks by Beverly Clearly), and revisits an old favorite (Blockhead by Joseph D’Agnese).