Remember the Scholastic catalogs that you used to get as a kid?
Look what's in the Fall Teen catalog!
(Closeup of page 7.)
And what a bargain!

When 16 year-old Lucy comes home to find her mother dead under a stack of National Geographics in their garbage-filled home, she hesitates as she starts to dial 911. She hardly notices the mountains of stuff that fill every available space in the entire house or smells the decay anymore - but she knows the paramedics will, and so will the news cameras that will follow. They’ll notice the garbage and the smell and wonder how anyone ever lived like this. Only freaks live like this.
As she stares at the cell phone, Lucy can already hear the echoes of “Garbage Girl” and picture the look of disgust on everyone’s faces. With a best friend, the perfect boyfriend and a normal life finally within reach, Lucy has to decide how far she’ll go to keep the family secrets safe.
As one little boy is eating breakfast in San Francisco, another kid in London is playing football with his mates, a girl in Lahore is eating dinner with her family, and another child in Sydney is calling for a drink of water in the middle of the night. Poetic language and charming vignettes simplify the concept of time zones by providing glimpses into the everyday lives of children around the world.






2 comments:
THIS is the part I miss most about leaving elementary school. Though I still get my little sister to buy me some from the Scholastic book fair she has at her middle school. :D
Awesome that DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS is in there!
I looooooooove Scholastic book orders! They were my favourite thing about elementary school, by far.
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