Saturday, November 28, 2009
Scrapbooking Giveaway!
The Gypsy Spot is giving away a cool Cricut Gypsy that works with all the Cricut machines! Awesome! To enter, go to this link: http://the-gypsyspot.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
With teens, all things web 2.0 are in! It seems like they only communicate through texting, Facebook, instant messaging and email! So how appropriate that someone would write a book that was written all in texting and chat!
High school juniors Bliss and Tamra are challenged by their friend Annie to try to take one another’s boyfriends away by talking to them through text messages and in a chat room. It turns out that Annie is holding a grudge against boys because she was dropped by her last boyfriend. She is determined to prove that all guys are fickle! She helps Bliss and Tamra pull a disappearing act and reappear on the Internet under fake identities as foreign exchange students. Their mission is to tempt their boyfriends, Mitch and Beau, into having a relationship with them. Unknown to the girls and the boys, Annie is plotting with Johnson, Mitch and Beau’s friend, to accomplish her evil plan!
High school juniors Bliss and Tamra are challenged by their friend Annie to try to take one another’s boyfriends away by talking to them through text messages and in a chat room. It turns out that Annie is holding a grudge against boys because she was dropped by her last boyfriend. She is determined to prove that all guys are fickle! She helps Bliss and Tamra pull a disappearing act and reappear on the Internet under fake identities as foreign exchange students. Their mission is to tempt their boyfriends, Mitch and Beau, into having a relationship with them. Unknown to the girls and the boys, Annie is plotting with Johnson, Mitch and Beau’s friend, to accomplish her evil plan!
The plot parallels the Mozart opera, “Cosi Fan Tutte”, dealing with tangled relationships and love triangles.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Four thirteen-year-old boys witness the making of the movie The Invasion of the Body Snatchers in their hometown and its vicinity. They also become involved with the FBI and their search for Communists.
Told from the point of view of Paul, one of the boys, this delightful book takes readers on a nostalgic journey back in time to the 50s, when lives were simpler and nearly every kid had a stay-at-home mom. But it was also a time of fear. Was your neighbor really who they said they were, or were they actually a Communist? Students were practicing bomb drills because who knew when the Russians might decide to drop the bomb on the USA? These were the emotions of the 1950s, when kids could run and around and play just about anywhere they wanted without fear of being kidnapped or worse. A lot of researching went into the writing of the story, and the characters are all extremely well-developed. The plot parallels that of the movie and includes references to the actual cast and crew who worked on the film. Paul and his friends get caught up in a real-life “Red Scare” and actually befriend and help undercover FBI agents in their investigation. This book could be used along with the study of McCarthyism and the 1950s. There is plenty of humor and intrigue to keep the reader turning the pages!
Recommended for middle school, high school, and public libraries.
Told from the point of view of Paul, one of the boys, this delightful book takes readers on a nostalgic journey back in time to the 50s, when lives were simpler and nearly every kid had a stay-at-home mom. But it was also a time of fear. Was your neighbor really who they said they were, or were they actually a Communist? Students were practicing bomb drills because who knew when the Russians might decide to drop the bomb on the USA? These were the emotions of the 1950s, when kids could run and around and play just about anywhere they wanted without fear of being kidnapped or worse. A lot of researching went into the writing of the story, and the characters are all extremely well-developed. The plot parallels that of the movie and includes references to the actual cast and crew who worked on the film. Paul and his friends get caught up in a real-life “Red Scare” and actually befriend and help undercover FBI agents in their investigation. This book could be used along with the study of McCarthyism and the 1950s. There is plenty of humor and intrigue to keep the reader turning the pages!
Recommended for middle school, high school, and public libraries.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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