Cybils Nominations: Middle Grade Fiction List.

Holidays Around the World: National Geographic.Cybils Nominations: Fiction Picture Books.Cybils: Non Fiction Picture Book Nominations.Ancient Egypt: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of.True confession: I ended the book and wanted to watch the movie! The S&S threads that Rushton uses in TDSSoL are the bonds between the sisters, and their different ways of looking at life, and how each of them deal with the loss of their father and their old way of life. Clueless used this 'marriage is your happy ending' by having two characters marry and all the other characters attend the wedding it also worked because Emma was more about meddling in others lives and making wrong assumptions when you think you know everything than it was about marriage. While finding love is something today's teens think about, they don't think about marriage (not the way the characters did in Austen's books). The problem for any teen interpretation of Austen is that her endings involved the characters getting married. In S&S, the law requires the house be left to the eldest son here, the father has had a midlife crisis and the house is left to his new wife. I had fun matching the characters and the storylines to the original it was interesting to see how things had been interpreted and modernized. Want me to read something, just say it's based on Austen or Shakespeare or some myth. I don't know why it's just one of my things. Not enough for you? Three sisters find their lives changed forever when their father dies and their home is left to other relatives in a new town, in reduced circumstances, they rebuild their lives and fall in love along the way. The Plot: Modern teen version of Sense And Sensibility. The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love by Rosie Rushton.

Summer of Secrets by Rosie Rushton