I think for me that was The Red Pony, altho that wasn't a Newbery trauma, my dad read it to me and then I ALSO had to read it for school because I grew up in California and damn did the school boards love their local Nobel-prize-winning author. >:-(((
I honestly can't imagine someone loving Terabithia (I read it and IDK, girl with the splinter of ice in her heart because it didn't traumatize me the way it did everyone else? Bzuh?) but I do love Lois Lowry's very autobiographical novel A Summer To Die, about her very close sister dying of leukemia, and it's also a very Seventies book but in a good way so I really identified with the heroine. But the emphasis in that book isn't so much on the sister's death, altho it's tragic, but on life going on and how her family's love still keeps her alive for them (I tried to think of a less soppy way of putting that, need more coffee).
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Date: 2021-09-08 03:35 am (UTC)I honestly can't imagine someone loving Terabithia (I read it and IDK, girl with the splinter of ice in her heart because it didn't traumatize me the way it did everyone else? Bzuh?) but I do love Lois Lowry's very autobiographical novel A Summer To Die, about her very close sister dying of leukemia, and it's also a very Seventies book but in a good way so I really identified with the heroine. But the emphasis in that book isn't so much on the sister's death, altho it's tragic, but on life going on and how her family's love still keeps her alive for them (I tried to think of a less soppy way of putting that, need more coffee).