A new book has been making the rounds of the high school and I know it's making the rounds in others. A friend who teaches in another city told me that she read the entire series in a weekend! Ok, so they're not real deep or complex, but highly adictive to teen-age girls.
Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer. It's actually the first book in a series of three (and continuing), so once the reader is hooked, there's even more to keep them reading. It's got vampires, romance and high school.. what could be better? Oh yeah. It's set on the Olympic Pennisula, so the kids get a little thrill every time they read the name of a town they've heard of or been to. In fact, it is set in Forks, WA. Why Forks? Because as the rainiest town in the US, it's a perfect place for a vampire who doesn't want to be in the sun. Heh. Personally, I didn't find Forks all that much rainier than anywhere else on the pennisula, but the kids told me that the author never actually visited the area until after the book was published - to check to see if she was right - so the decision was made entirely based upon statistics.
FWIW, a couple of males have read the book and liked it, but I'm thinking I really wouldn't recommend it to students who would gravitate towards books about war, graphic death, blood, hunting, fishing and sports stories that aren't meant to be touching. Just sayin'.
Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer. It's actually the first book in a series of three (and continuing), so once the reader is hooked, there's even more to keep them reading. It's got vampires, romance and high school.. what could be better? Oh yeah. It's set on the Olympic Pennisula, so the kids get a little thrill every time they read the name of a town they've heard of or been to. In fact, it is set in Forks, WA. Why Forks? Because as the rainiest town in the US, it's a perfect place for a vampire who doesn't want to be in the sun. Heh. Personally, I didn't find Forks all that much rainier than anywhere else on the pennisula, but the kids told me that the author never actually visited the area until after the book was published - to check to see if she was right - so the decision was made entirely based upon statistics.FWIW, a couple of males have read the book and liked it, but I'm thinking I really wouldn't recommend it to students who would gravitate towards books about war, graphic death, blood, hunting, fishing and sports stories that aren't meant to be touching. Just sayin'.
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