ok so I was talking with people about books we read in High school, and we remembered reading the crysalids....Has anyone read this and if so, we cant remember what the abnormal people were called. there were the norms and the --------???? they had to like go live on the outskirts and stuff. I need to figure this out lol its bothering all of us that we dotn remember. anyone help\n?\n?
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i think they were called deviations and they lived in the Fringes, the outskirts of the town, Labrador, where David, the main character, lived.
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Synopsis:\nThis "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year tells a story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. \n\nSynopsis:\nStargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. \n\nThen they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love.\n\nThen in:  www.quakerbooks.org/get/0-375-82233-x -   you have the following:\n\nJerry Spinelli has yet again masterfully created a realistic fiction story with which all young adults should identify while seeing themselves in the characters. Spinelli's easy writing style and use of teen friendly dialogue make this selection an easy read for almost any young adult no matter what their reading level or ability. The story begins with the arrival of a new girl in school as told through the eyes of fellow 10th grader, Leo Burlock. Whispers and rumors run wild as the new student, Stargirl Caraway, begins to make her way through the school. Stargirl is a 10th grader who has just arrived at Mica Area High School in Mica, Arizona (it could have been Anywhere, USA), wearing pioneer type dresses, kimonos and strumming a ukulele and carrying her pet rat! This shocks the school, which is not exactly a "hotbed of originality". In time the student body gives away to her free spirit and friendliness. They begin to rejoice in her extraordinary and impromptu antics such as singing Happy Birthday to everyone in the school cafeteria and her spectacular acrobatics as a cheerleader. However, soon the popularity begins to wear off as Stargirl carries it a little too far in the eyes of the student body. Leo Borlock befriends Stargirl and ultimately becomes his first love. Leo is torn between the conformity issue at school and truly expressing his individuality and love for Stargirl. This plot, while chronological in nature, moves very smoothly as the relationship between Stargirl and Leo intensifies. The characters in the novel are related to the reader through the eyes of sixteen year old, Leo Borlock. Leo seems to a typical teen in every way; he honors the unspoken rule of teendom: "don't stand out - under any circumstances". Leo is both attracted and repelled by her. Leo's character changes as he realizes that Stargirl seems to like him. He eventually braves up enough to go to her house and befriend her, while also being seen in public with her. As the popularity slows to a stop and eventually turns into Stargirls emeny, Leo has to make decisions about his friendship with Stargirl. Stargirl Caraway is fun loving, free-spirited and totally impromptu. She marches to the beat of her own drummer and does not seem to notice the ways others react her. The changes in her character occur after a long talk with Leo about the way "they" see her. She changes her clothing and her way of dealing with people. In essence, she becomes a regular teen at Mica High in order to please Leo and fit in with the crowd. She eventually finds she is better off to be her true self. Person versus society is the obvious conflict in this novel. Both Stargirl and Leo are in conflict with society and the option to conform or not conform. Although they handle the conflict in different ways, both feel the need to conform. While Stargirl chooses the road of nonconformity, Leo eventually chooses to confo
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HMMMM you can go to your local library ask them for that...I remeber that when i was in 5th grade my favorite book...aw man i forgot!but i searched  and searched the library and found it with help form the internet....sounds like an intresting book...i'll look in on it!\n\nGood luck finding it!!!
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In the age of IM's and SMS texts, the youth of America seems to have adopted a "but you know what I mean" attitude on the topic, which I find disturbing, as well.\n\nFor those folks who throw their hands up in the air, and announce that they are "just bad spallars (sic)", please do the rest of us a favor and click the Check Spelling button pre-submission.\n\nI agree with you so very much.\n\nDo any of you remember Ray Bradbury's FARENHEIT 451 ?  It asserts that since we do all of our logical thinking in words, that limiting the vocabulary of the masses could, in turn limit their thinking.  It's interesting to see that the most unclear thinking seems to be posted in the most dubious syntax most of the time.
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the quest of the Golden Toadstool. Anyone knows anything about this story? I think my student may have copie? \nI gave an assignment and one student turned in a story about a gnome a golden toadstool and a dragon. The gnome keeps the toadstool in the forest. The dragon takes it away, destroying the forest. The gnome goes and finds the dragon, kills it and returns the toadstool to the forest and the toadstool being magical puts the forest back together. \nThere is no way this student wrote this picture story book.\nThanks for any help!
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Danse macabre is the next one after micah (which was not great compared to her other previous books!). in the website of Laurel K Hamilton it says it's to be out on 27.6.2006...so look out in yr nearest book store & ask them if they know when it's coming in.  have u read her other series of anita blake from vol 1 - 12?  i've & it was good but book 13 onwards was getting on my nerves.  i'm now on to l.a banks (damali richard - vampire huntress legend) & have read all 5 of hers & looking out for the next one in my library.  i try not to purchase any of them unless i know they r a keeper!! hope this helps =)
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OMG I LOVE THAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't been able to find for a long time though. I didn't think anyone else liked those anymore.
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I don't think they ever finish the Amelia dead in the ice box story.  And we don't know about the scholorship either, but I don't think it was her, because I read in a spoiler she'll be going to Hearst College with Wallace and still live with her Dad.\nOh- and yes I love it too!!!!!!  =)
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Dear Amy,\n\nThe Elves and I are working hard on granting superpowers this holiday season. Kids seem to be requesting them all over the place. I'm blaming that Heroes show. Most are asking for X-ray vision, but we've also had many requests for teleportaion and invisibility.\n\nI miss the days when all they wanted were rocking horses. The Elf Carpenters' Guild has been very morose these past few decades. And our new Elf Computer Guild has been working so hard year after year that they don't know what to do with themselves. But now that we're trying to develop superpower granting, a lot of them are asking if they can be juiced up with the ability to bend time like that Hiro guy.\n\nAnyway, I'm rambling. Only a month and a half to go, and we're still trying to find a way to grant kids flight. It's going to be quite a season. \n\nSorry to dump all of this on you, Amy. I just wanted you to know where we stand. So it's teleportation and invisibility for you. I'll make sure the Elves know. Thanks, and take care.\n\nLove,\nSanta
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maybe you can try sparknotes.com. I use to use that website all the time when I had to read books. I don't know if they have chagned though.
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I flippin love it! I am so worried about the cheerleader. What is up with her creepy step dad? Could you imagine waking up on a table in a morgue half way through your autopsy all cut open. If I could have any of the powers I think it would be to read minds BUT be able to control it and do it on will. I love it- it just keeps you wanting more. \n\nS♥
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I met the writer of this book just weeks before his death. The book is 100% true.griping !!!!! I had to order it at Barnes + Noble\nTook one week. please get this book,You will not be able to put it down.Title\nNONE CAME HOME
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I just read all of your past questions and you should be writing children's books. You are very creative and entertaining. I think your ideas are brilliant and you should spend your time developing them in a positive way. I would love to read a story about "ear gnomes, but vampires, liver pixies, sock pixies, hair witches, and nose fairies" to my future stepson. Go where your mind takes you and maybe one day I'll be reading your books.
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I've got the book, and haven't got round to reading it yet. I know what its about roughly though, didn't know pedophilia was a large plot point, but i knew sex was there a lot.\n\nSame can be said for the Anne Rice (Anne Roquelare) books, some call them smut, some call them art.\n\nGonna go read it now :)
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well, since im a 6th grader, i can help u. i have been reading 9th grade novels since 3rd grade. if u want my personal opinion i like reading novels about like, eating disorders. those are always long, because u have to explain why the person thinks theyre fat, theyre journey through the disorder, and the recoverey.     or, i like those stories about high school/ middle school stuff. like everyday stuff. think 'mean girls'. those are depending on what the plot, can be very easy to write, and very page-turning. also, those "i-just-now-died-and-im-telling-u-my-story-from-heaven" storys are always good also. they talk to u about a place that no one else knows about, which means that they cant correct u. also meaning that, u can make an entire world of your own. are there angels there? is it the exact same thing as earth? is it different for every person. \nthose are just a few ideas of mine.
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I've looked at your links.  \n\nI'd recommend you work on your format and delivery.  It is just too much work to try to sort through it all and figure out just who did what to whom, and why.  Your pages are packed with your feelings about what happened, but there's not a lot of detail about what that was. \n\nWhy not find a writer to try to turn it into a novel?  If you did that, someone might actually be able to understand what you're talking about without deciding to devote a number of hours to deciphering paragraphs that seem to be written with the presumption that the reader knows who any of these people are in the first place. \n\nI mean that in the nicest way.  Obviously you want the world to understand, but the fact is that your links don't further that objective.
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Pretend this passage is part of a story you're reading. Read this passage, then I've got a question for you to answer.\n\n     It was a hot, sunny afternoon in the inner city. The three bald youths, wearing T-shirts and baggy pants, walked down the cracked sidewalk, their bling dangling around their shoulders. One carried a boombox playing Snoop Dogg loudly. One wore a baseball cap, its bill turned to the side. Another wore sunglasses.\n\n     All right. Now my question is: What ethnicity were these three youths? Answer, then continue reading.\n\n     My point is that you very probably thought of these youths as African-American, even though the description of them never actually said so. Why can't they be whites, or Latino? You see, stereotyping is programmed into our behavior patterns, it's hardwired into our thought processes. It's part of what makes us human. It's a survivial mechanism--we tend to organize others into groups that we want to try to stay away from, and groups that we want to try to join, because these groups could either harm us or hurt us. Such concerns are beyond "good" and "bad", it's just the way we are.