How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues? by Barthe DeClements

Best Dress – For the cover showing the most eye-dazzling, prom worthy, heart-palpitating 80’s dress ever, I give you – Saturday Night – pale pink with oodles of satin ribbon trim, fingerless gloves contrasting nicely with the models fire red hair – outstanding!Ģ.

There are 20 categories – all judged by moi – but if you have any ideas – let me know!ġ. The award – the dancing frog – I clipped from a Sleepover Friends cover #19 – because the frog, frugging in his underwear, is just too hard to resist. (*Inspired by Shelf Discovery, but not actually in it.Welcome to the 1st annual Conway Dancing Frog awards for Best 80’s book covers ( Named in honor of that signature whirled across the Sleepover Friends covers.) His genius lay in his puns – drawing in the competition ( other series covers ) and in managing to bring the characters,especially Stephanie, wonderfully to life.

It’s Not the End of the World by Judy Blume Love is One of the Choices, Norma Klein*ġ2. Seventeen and In-Between, Barthe DeClements *ġ0. Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade by Barthe DeClements* How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues by Barthe DeClements*Ħ. The Taking of Terri Mueller by Norma Fox Mazer*ĥ. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan AikenĢ. To All My Fans, with Love, from Sylvie by Ellen Confordġ. A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L’EngleĦ. To join me in this challenge, all you need to do is grab a copy of SHELF DISCOVERY and pick out what six books you want to read (of course, you can read more than six!) Then, after you read a book, just write a “book report” to share your thoughts with others!Ģ. The Shelf Discovery Challenge will run for six months (Novem– April 30, 2010). And even if you’ve read some of these books over and over again as a young girl (like me), I think that by re-reading them now we will appreciate them for entirely different reasons. There are also essays about these classics written by current women writers including Meg Cabot, Laura Lippman, Cecily von Ziegesar, and Jennifer Weiner.īy participating in this challenge, you can revisit some of your childhood favorites while also having the chance to read some of these classics for the very first time. SHELF DISCOVERY is a “reading memoir” which features over 70 MG and YA classics with Ms. I haven’t yet read Lizzie Skurnik’s Shelf Discovery–though I do love the idea–and since there are books in Shelf Discovery that I never read as a young person, I am excited to participate in the Shelf Discovery Challenge, hosted by Julie P of Booking Mama.

How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues? by Barthe DeClements