Candice Phee ist 12 Jahre alt und muss für ihre Schule einen Erlebnisbericht schreiben, der sich an sämtlichen Buchstaben des Alphabets orientiert. Das dies etwas länger dauert als erlaubt, kann man sich denken und Candice nutzt die Zeit dafür, in so manches Leben wieder ein wenig Lachen und Glüc...
Okay. So maybe I am too old for these kind of books. Or maybe it just wasn't my cup of tea. But honestly? What's behind all of this book? After I finished it I was wondering: What the hell wanted the book to show me? Cause I seriously have no idea. I even feel as dumb as I felt in school when rea...
My book is maybe the weirdest book I have ever read. This story takes place in a high school, in a class of 10th graders; just like me. There's 3 main characters, Miss Payne, Calma, and Kiffo. These characters are always getting in trouble with one another. Main ideas that occur in this story is ...
Michael Terny is at his seventh school in four years and he knows that whatever he does, he will be ridiculed and pushed around. Michael is the fat kid. But Michael is also a lucid dreamer–he can recognize when he is dreaming and make the dream unfold exactly as he wants. Here he is safe and comp...
Unfortunately, the other two members were John and Kyle. Kyle had a face like roadkill, a home-pierced eyebrow and the attention span of a goldfish. He didn’t fill me with confidence. We got into a huddle, which was a good idea since we exchanged heat. I was starting to lose feeling in my extremi...
There was a rock concert way back in the nineteen-sixties, at a place called Woodstock in America, and all the big bands and artists of the time were playing. They did it in this farmer’s field, and it wasn’t a buy-the-tickets-in-advance deal. You just rocked up. So the organisers had no idea how...
Well, I’ve decided to cut you a break and fill you in right now. About six months ago I was visited in the middle of the night by a scruffy dog taking a dump on my doona. This was the first of many surprises, very few of them pleasant. But the biggest shock, bigger even than waking up to find a s...
She got dressed quickly, paying no attention to the thin scar that ran down the side of her stomach. A memento of a fight in Beirut. Just before she had broken his neck, he had slashed her across the abdomen. Later, she had stitched herself with a sharpened twig and a length of twine she had fash...
The girl stood framed in early morning light. Something was different about the inside of the barn, but she wasn’t sure what. Maybe it was the texture of the silence. She took two steps forward. Her eyes squinted against the dark. The shadows were familiar. Rusted machinery parts, fence posts, bu...
I wouldn’t have minded that so much, but most of her frenzy was directed at me. She had ironed my best pants until I was in danger of cutting myself on the creases. She had insisted on me wearing one of those shirts that feel as if they are made from plastic sheeting. And my shoes were so highly ...
Chapter 21Time for actionTell me I got it wrong. Please.This is the way I thought it through. Not so much a logical argument, more a series of images that coalesced. Stars on the edge.Mrs. Aldrick. Nervous. Not a comic figure, after all. Not someone to laugh at or make stupid jokes about how she ...