Farrah is a nut case and neither the fact that she's not always in public with her daughter nor the fact that she's done sex work factor into my belief that she's a terrible mother/ person.

I know. It's just that she seems REALLY REALLY BUSY lately with the porno and the plastic surgery and the photo shoots and all the FARRAH FARRAH FARRAH stuff, and I haven't heard a word about that baby in forever.

Prune juice. A warrior's drink.

Ordell: That shit'll rob you of your ambition!
Melanie: Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV.

(maybe not exact, but remembered dialogue from the film 'Jackie Brown')

Jaden should consider going to Milford Academy.

Related: this was Tumblr and funnier than almost anything on the roast.

Published in 1972, this Judy Blume classic made having low self-esteem seem normal. Read it in 4th grade and remember loving it. Great purchase for the fourth grader in your life!

by Francesca Lia Block, 1989

ALL OF THEM. Okay, not really and I don't remember which ones I read or even if I read the ones in the pictures. But I read alllll the ones in the library. Many many many of them. And I went through every possible outcome. I think it has to do with my love of wibbly wobbly timey wimey. "What happens if I go down…

Not exactly a children's book, but...

"Ramona Quimby, Age 8," by Beverly Cleary (1981). Ramona is like the honey badger. I mean, she squeezed an entire tube of toothpaste into the sink.

Everything by John Bellairs. And Harriet the Spy and Wrinkle in Time also, and everything by Frank Herbert. And everything with words.

This is the first book I read as a kid that didn't have pictures in it. I was eight at the time. It changed my life. After reading it I became a book vampire and just kept drinking them up and moving on to the next one. I have yet to stop.

I LOVED The Cat At my Gymsuit and There's a Bat in Bunk Five and both books made me wish I'd grown up in the 70's. I realated like crazy to the overweight, miserable main character and her horrible family life.

Published in 1993, and written by Lois Lowry, The Giver was my favorite book for a long time as a kid. The thing that stands out to me the most about this quick and satisfying read, is that it doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator of teens and kids. It's actually fairly complex for a kids book, and it really…

and

I got hooked young into reading.

Where the Red Fern Grows

for fourth and fifth graders: