{"id":6536,"date":"2019-05-11T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=6536"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T17:14:01","slug":"327j-late-50s-early-60s-long-island-ny-grade-school-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/327j-late-50s-early-60s-long-island-ny-grade-school-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"327J: Late 50’s\/Early 60’s Long Island NY Grade School Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m looking for a book I remember so I can reconnect with the late sister I never knew.<\/div>\n
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I was born in 1965. I have one living sister (June, born: 1957) and one who passed away before I was born (Susan: born 1948).<\/div>\n
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I think the book belonged to my sister Susan, who was killed by a drunk driver in 1963. My parents couldn’t bear the pain so most of her things were not kept–too many memories. A few schoolbooks were left in the basement. I remember one especially…it could have been Susan’s or my other sister, June’s. I hope this information provides you with an idea of the time period\/range of dates involved. Fairly positive it was before the mid-1960s.<\/div>\n
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The last time I saw it was a very long time ago, probably around 1973. I’ve been looking for it ever since. It was a grade school reader, blue boards…would have been used on Long Island, NY, in either Suffolk or Nassau County. I believe the first story was about boys vs. girls building a tree house. I think the girls put curtains, etc. on the windows. There are pictures throughout the book, but I don’t think the reading level was too young (not Dick and Jane, for example). There was also a story about a circus with an illustration I clearly remember of a lady in a tutu standing on the back of a running show pony.<\/div>\n
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I don’t remember much else. I think it was fairly thick, and the standard size for a hardback book.<\/div>\n
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Our address in New York was in St. James, NY, but my sister Susan only lived there for about two years. Prior to that I believe my family lived on Duffy Avenue, Hicksville, NY. This might help with the school districts.<\/div>\n
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If you could find the title for me, it would mean the world, because I could try to track down the book. When I was child I liked reading it, but I think when my mom saw it, it was either given or thrown away because it was too painful for my parents. Today the book would also be a connection to my late sister — even though it wouldn’t be her copy, it would still be something she read.<\/div>\n
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Many, many thanks. I’m sorry I can’t provide more information.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m looking for a book I remember so I can reconnect with the late sister I never knew. I was born in 1965. I have one living sister (June, born: 1957) and one who passed away before I was born (Susan: born 1948). I think the book belonged to my sister Susan, who was killed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,14,4,19],"tags":[64,387,386,388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}