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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>&lt;CENTER&gt;It's a place where life and love begin, and loss is borne.</strong><p>Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there.<p>Ouside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.<p></p>The borning room is a room that figures large in the life of an Ohio farm girl born in 1851. Through its doorway pass the members of a free thinking family, bearing news of the world beyond the window: talk of runaway slaves, the siege of Vicksburg, seances, chloroform, electricity. In this heartfelt and haunting work, an account of one life, one family, and one room widens into a panoramic view of the human seasons and the procession of generations. &quot;From an innovative, highly talented novelist and poet . . . memorable characters and valuable glimpses of social history in a beautifully crafted novel. Deeply rewarding.&quot; &#151;K. <p> &lt;awards&gt; Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)<br/>1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)<br/>1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)<br/>Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)<br/>1991 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)<br/>1992 Teacher's Choices (IRA)<br/>Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)<br/>1991 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)<br/>1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Fiction (SCBW)<br/>1991 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)<br/>100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1991 (NY Public Library)<br/>Bulletin Blue Ribbon Books 1991 (C)<br/>Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)<br/>1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short YA piece with a Lion King-ish &quot;Circle of Life&quot; feel to it.  The action follows a Civil War-era heroine literally from birth to death, all via events which take place in the &quot;borning room&quot; (a room in the house dedicated to the birthing of babies and passage of the dying). ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45941345">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>&lt;CENTER&gt;It's a place where life and love begin, and loss is borne.</strong><p>Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there.<p>Ouside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.<p></p>The borning room is a room that figures large in the life of an Ohio farm girl born in 1851. Through its doorway pass the members of a free thinking family, bearing news of the world beyond the window: talk of runaway slaves, the siege of Vicksburg, seances, chloroform, electricity. In this heartfelt and haunting work, an account of one life, one family, and one room widens into a panoramic view of the human seasons and the procession of generations. &quot;From an innovative, highly talented novelist and poet . . . memorable characters and valuable glimpses of social history in a beautifully crafted novel. Deeply rewarding.&quot; &#151;K. <p> &lt;awards&gt; Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)<br/>1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)<br/>1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)<br/>Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)<br/>1991 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)<br/>1992 Teacher's Choices (IRA)<br/>Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)<br/>1991 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)<br/>1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Fiction (SCBW)<br/>1991 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)<br/>100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1991 (NY Public Library)<br/>Bulletin Blue Ribbon Books 1991 (C)<br/>Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)<br/>1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started out really liking this book, but by the time I finished it, I felt 'ho-hum' about it. I realize it's for young people and maybe that's why it left me a bit underwhelmed. Actually, I think the author must have started out with good intentions and then gotten bored with it and just finished ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45190602">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>&lt;CENTER&gt;It's a place where life and love begin, and loss is borne.</strong><p>Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there.<p>Ouside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.<p></p>The borning room is a room that figures large in the life of an Ohio farm girl born in 1851. Through its doorway pass the members of a free thinking family, bearing news of the world beyond the window: talk of runaway slaves, the siege of Vicksburg, seances, chloroform, electricity. In this heartfelt and haunting work, an account of one life, one family, and one room widens into a panoramic view of the human seasons and the procession of generations. &quot;From an innovative, highly talented novelist and poet . . . memorable characters and valuable glimpses of social history in a beautifully crafted novel. Deeply rewarding.&quot; &#151;K. <p> &lt;awards&gt; Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)<br/>1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)<br/>1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)<br/>Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)<br/>1991 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)<br/>1992 Teacher's Choices (IRA)<br/>Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)<br/>1991 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)<br/>1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Fiction (SCBW)<br/>1991 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)<br/>100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1991 (NY Public Library)<br/>Bulletin Blue Ribbon Books 1991 (C)<br/>Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)<br/>1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book. It told of life by being born in Pioneer days and the same room being used for death. It is told by a little girl. The times are when slavery was a very important of peoples life.  Of how the slaves would run away because of being in slavery and how they were treated. No one was t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45065030">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>&lt;CENTER&gt;It's a place where life and love begin, and loss is borne.</strong><p>Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there.<p>Ouside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.<p></p>The borning room is a room that figures large in the life of an Ohio farm girl born in 1851. Through its doorway pass the members of a free thinking family, bearing news of the world beyond the window: talk of runaway slaves, the siege of Vicksburg, seances, chloroform, electricity. In this heartfelt and haunting work, an account of one life, one family, and one room widens into a panoramic view of the human seasons and the procession of generations. &quot;From an innovative, highly talented novelist and poet . . . memorable characters and valuable glimpses of social history in a beautifully crafted novel. Deeply rewarding.&quot; &#151;K. <p> &lt;awards&gt; Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)<br/>1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)<br/>1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)<br/>Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)<br/>1991 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)<br/>1992 Teacher's Choices (IRA)<br/>Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)<br/>1991 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)<br/>1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Fiction (SCBW)<br/>1991 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)<br/>100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1991 (NY Public Library)<br/>Bulletin Blue Ribbon Books 1991 (C)<br/>Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)<br/>1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)</p></p></p></p>]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well written, but not overly engaging.  The author explores family memories surrounding the life of one girl.  Some sad parts (when members of the family die)require the protagonist to come to terms with sadness and choose to become better through them.  Her relationship and the natural worship of h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71398648">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>&lt;CENTER&gt;It's a place where life and love begin, and loss is borne.</strong><p>Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there.<p>Ouside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.<p></p>The borning room is a room that figures large in the life of an Ohio farm girl born in 1851. Through its doorway pass the members of a free thinking family, bearing news of the world beyond the window: talk of runaway slaves, the siege of Vicksburg, seances, chloroform, electricity. In this heartfelt and haunting work, an account of one life, one family, and one room widens into a panoramic view of the human seasons and the procession of generations. &quot;From an innovative, highly talented novelist and poet . . . memorable characters and valuable glimpses of social history in a beautifully crafted novel. Deeply rewarding.&quot; &#151;K. <p> &lt;awards&gt; Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)<br/>1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)<br/>1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)<br/>Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)<br/>1991 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)<br/>1992 Teacher's Choices (IRA)<br/>Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)<br/>1991 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)<br/>1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Fiction (SCBW)<br/>1991 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)<br/>100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1991 (NY Public Library)<br/>Bulletin Blue Ribbon Books 1991 (C)<br/>Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)<br/>1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book's title sounded strange to me, but I read it and liked it.  It takes place in Ohio in the 1800's.  The house has a room specifically set aside for births and deaths.  It is told from the perspective of a daughter in the home, and tells the happy and sad things that happen in this room.    <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45357588">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A pioneer girl's life, told through the scenes from her family's borning room...where all births and deaths take place. The cycles of life...birth, death, courtship, giving birth, death...are eloquently described. This is a most tender and uplifting book.<br/><br/>From the book: <em>As a child of five...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18788631">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so awesome. The mother has a baby and it is so nice that the daughter is able to watch it. A lot of things happen. It reminds me of the olden days like when slaves were around. Nice book.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>&lt;CENTER&gt;It's a place where life and love begin, and loss is borne.</strong><p>Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there.<p>Ouside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.<p></p>The borning room is a room that figures large in the life of an Ohio farm girl born in 1851. Through its doorway pass the members of a free thinking family, bearing news of the world beyond the window: talk of runaway slaves, the siege of Vicksburg, seances, chloroform, electricity. In this heartfelt and haunting work, an account of one life, one family, and one room widens into a panoramic view of the human seasons and the procession of generations. &quot;From an innovative, highly talented novelist and poet . . . memorable characters and valuable glimpses of social history in a beautifully crafted novel. Deeply rewarding.&quot; &#151;K. <p> &lt;awards&gt; Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)<br/>1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)<br/>1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)<br/>Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)<br/>1991 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)<br/>1992 Teacher's Choices (IRA)<br/>Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)<br/>1991 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)<br/>1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Fiction (SCBW)<br/>1991 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)<br/>100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1991 (NY Public Library)<br/>Bulletin Blue Ribbon Books 1991 (C)<br/>Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)<br/>1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am planning on sharing this next month at the book club that I just started going to.  It's been a LONG time since I read it, but I think it would be a good share.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this a long time ago, but I remember being very moved by it. It's a simple, beautiful story. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is yet another wonderful read and great writing but it will teach you about life and death!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of my all time favorites.  A good choice for adults, too.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a sweet book, full of sorrow and joy and tales of the &quot;old way&quot;.  Everytime I see an egg these days, I alway imagine pieces of shell rasping down a boys throat!  I think it's a good comming of age book for girls because it speaks to their hearts and the importance of truth and lov...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the sweetest and most tender books I've read. As the caption reads - The Borning Room - a place where life and love are born and loss is borne. Read the review - the book is even better...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very short read (you can easily read it in one night), and a good story.  I enjoyed it.  Interesting discussion of a family's journey through many generations.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My mom and sister both loved this book. I also thought it was a fabulous book. I especially liked the artful way that Mr Fleischman ended the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What I remember of this book is the child narrator's belief that pregnancy occurs when a married woman swallows a watermelon seed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read this over and over.  Wonderful book:)]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Borning Room (Charlotte Zolotow Book)]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>&lt;CENTER&gt;It's a place where life and love begin, and loss is borne.</strong><p>Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there.<p>Ouside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.<p></p>The borning room is a room that figures large in the life of an Ohio farm girl born in 1851. Through its doorway pass the members of a free thinking family, bearing news of the world beyond the window: talk of runaway slaves, the siege of Vicksburg, seances, chloroform, electricity. In this heartfelt and haunting work, an account of one life, one family, and one room widens into a panoramic view of the human seasons and the procession of generations. &quot;From an innovative, highly talented novelist and poet . . . memorable characters and valuable glimpses of social history in a beautifully crafted novel. Deeply rewarding.&quot; &#151;K. <p> &lt;awards&gt; Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)<br/>1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)<br/>1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)<br/>Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)<br/>1991 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)<br/>1992 Teacher's Choices (IRA)<br/>Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)<br/>1991 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)<br/>1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Fiction (SCBW)<br/>1991 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)<br/>100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1991 (NY Public Library)<br/>Bulletin Blue Ribbon Books 1991 (C)<br/>Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)<br/>1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[touching story...quick read.]]></body>
    
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