#Wendelin van draanen

[curious-and-curiouser]

Sammy Keyes Character Introductions (Part 1)

Hi everyone! I am doing a series where I post Sammy's initial introductions for each of the characters in the series. I am doing it chronologically, so we are starting off with intros and characters from Hotel Thief. There will be multiple posts as I go throughout the series. Feel free to comment which characters you'd like to see next!

Quotes from Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief-

Mrs. Graybill - Page 3

Mr. Bell - Page 4

Mikey - Page 11

Brandon- Page 13

[twistedacumen]

I miss you, Papa.

[iluvchickenthighs]

screaming, crying... 😵😵😵🤸‍♀️

[All credits to the rightfull owner/s.]

[pampamtiger]

flipped is such a good book/movie for the trope "she fell first but he fell harder".

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Flipped | Author: Wendelin Van Draanen | Publisher: Knopf (2003)

[luanweee]

"O caráter de alguém é definido em uma idade precoce, filho. As escolhas que você fizer agora irão afetá-lo pelo resto de sua vida" ele ficou quieto por um minuto, então baixou a cortina e disse : " eu odiaria ver você nadar tão longe que não pudesse nadar de volta"

" Sim, senhor"

Ele franziu a testa e disse : " Não diga, sim, senhor, Bryce" então se levantou e acrescentou: " Basta pensar sobre o que eu disse e da próxima vez que se deparar com uma escolha, faça a coisa certa, isso machuca menos a todos a longo prazo"

Flipped | Wendelin Van Dranner

[moviepolaroids]

Flipped Movie Sticker Set / T Shirt and more!

[indistressandwantstoletitallout]

Swear to howdy chapters in a nutshell.

Chapter 1 - Crappy eats weewee

Chapter 2 - we putted diamond dolls in drinks while in baseball game!!11!!!! (GONE WRONG :O :O :O)

Chapter 3 - R.I.P fish

Chapter 4 - Switch the fish for weeks so horrible father doesn't get mad.

Chapter 5 - gun

Chapter 6 - just like they say, "curiosity kills the cat."

Chapter 7 - pooping frog

Chapter 8 - Cheater cheater pumpkin eater

Chapter 9 - Prank gone wrong.

Chapter 10 - Another one bites the dust.

Chapter 11 - wine

Chapter 12 - The darkest chapter in the book

Chapter 13 - With friends like these.

[xxbottlecapx]

Flipped steddie au? Flipped steddie au??? FLIPPED STEDDIE AU????? FLIPPED STEDDIE AU FLIPPED STEDDIE AU????

[curious-and-curiouser]

Happy Birthday, Sammy Keyes!

[iluvchickenthighs]

flipped movie appreciation post bc I'm in love again lol 🤸‍♀️🥰

[All credits to the rightful owner/s.]

[heavencasteel420]

I was talking earlier about what I think is lost when people kind of lose sight of Steve as a pretty typical teenage boy (for better or worse), and another thing I've been thinking about is how Nancy says "you're an idiot, Steve Harrington" during their study scene. People who like their relationship or feel neutral about it tend to see that as cute banter, while people who don't like Nancy think she's being mean. I think it's pretty cute, even though I don't ship them outside of Stoncy, but I also think there's an interesting power dynamic going on. To be specific:

Although they are two close-in-age teenagers and it's totally appropriate for them to date, Steve has nearly all the leverage in this relationship. He's slightly older, he's much more popular, his family appears to have a little more status in town (the Wheelers have money, according to both Nancy and Jonathan, but everyone calls the Harringtons rich), he's an athlete with some talent in a small town, he has more sexual experience, and he's a boy.

Nancy wants to have sex with Steve, but she doesn't want to feel like or be regarded by others as a conquest or a slut (a real danger, as we see almost immediately after they sleep together). So she has to keep him at a distance for a while, and one of the ways she can do that is by downplaying how impressed she is by him. And one of the few things that Nancy has that Steve doesn't is being really smart at school stuff. And that happens to be a thing he's obviously kind of into. So calling him an idiot when he acts goofy is a way of reminding him that he has to impress her, too.

Trying to maintain some kind of power in the relationship is also at least part of why Nancy distinguishes herself from Amy/Becky/Laurie when talking to Steve (he cleverly flips it back on her by making the subtext text--"you're not a slut"--so he can redefine the terms of engagement) and why she persuades Barb to come with her to the party (if Nancy decides she doesn't want to sleep with Steve after all, Barb provides both a safe exit physically because she has a car and a safe excuse socially because Nancy can say "I need to go home with Barb" instead of "I don't want to sleep with you right now").

Of course, the power dynamics shift another way entirely after they sleep together, because Nancy is never quite as engaged with him again. It's not that she totally loses interest, but she's preoccupied with Barb's disappearance, her initial sexual curiosity has been satisfied, and Steve's BMOC persona looks increasingly distasteful to her. He reforms, but they're never quite on the same page re: the UD stuff and by then she's already more into Jonathan. Steve still has more social power, but he can't use that to impress her anymore, just punish her (something he loses interest in quickly). In matters of the heart, he's always on the backfoot.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Swear to Howdy | Author: Wendelin Van Draanen | Publisher: Yearling (2003)

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

You mentioned something about sharing books with no romance? Would you be willing to?

- another aroace who's sad that everything has romance in it (and even what doesn't everyone gets shippy)

OKAY get ready

These are just books that don’t feature a romance, but they may have a side romance. I didn’t include books that I dont remember super well or fandom specific books. I included my rating on a scale of 1 to 5 so you can know the general quality (in my opinion). I did not include any books I rated 2 or below.

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson (5/5)

The Martian by Andy Weir (5/5)

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu (3/5)

Ratman’s Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert (5/5)

A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen (3/5)

Loveless by Alice Oseman (4.5/5)

The Silence of Bones by June Hur (4/5)

Pretty much anything by Agatha Christie (generally 4/5)

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes (3.5/5)

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (3.5/5)

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (5/5)

Girl In A Bad Place by Kaitlin Ward (3/5)

Wild Bird by Wendelin van Draanen (3/5)

The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz (4/5)

oh the cat’s back (55555/5)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (5/5)

Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (3/5)

[blusandbirds]

sara ellis and neal caffrey ("i never promised you anything else" "i know")

the truth about the moon (cut) (newsies) // taking account // flipped (wendelin van draanen) // as you were // on the fence // shoot the moon // cardigan (taylor swift) // in the wind // as you were

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Summaries under the cut

The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse

Mila creates headlines around the world when she is rescued from an unpopulated island off the coast of Florida. Now a teenager, she has been raised by dolphins from the age of four.

Researchers teach Mila language and music. She learns, too, about rules and expectations, about locked doors and broken promies, disappointment and betrayal.

But the more Mila finds out what it means to be human, the more deeply she longs for her ocean home.

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell

Emmy was a good girl. At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days.

She really was a little too good. Which is why she liked to sit by the Rat. The Rat was not good at all . . .

Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer

1763.

Gideon Seymour, cutpurse and gentleman, hides from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen straight from the twenty-first century, thanks to an experiment with an antigravity machine. Before Gideon and the children have a chance to gather their wits, the Tar Man takes off with the machine -- and Kate and Peter's only chance of getting home. Soon Gideon, Kate, and Peter are swept into a journey through eighteenth-century London and form a bond that, they hope, will stand strong in the face of unfathomable treachery.

Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon

It's not easy for Danny Dragonbreath to be the sole mythical creature in a school for reptiles and amphibians -- especially because he can't breathe fire like other dragons (as the school bully loves to remind him). But having a unique family comes in handy sometimes, like when his sea-serpent cousin takes Danny and his best iguana friend on a mindboggling underwater tour, complete with vomiting sea cucumbers and giant squid. It sure beats reading the encyclopedia to research his ocean report . . .

Undertow by Michael Buckley

Sixteen-year-old Lyric Walker’s life is forever changed when she witnesses the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The world’s initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric’s small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other. When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince, a boy named Fathom, assimilate, she begins to fall for him. But their love is a dangerous one, and there are forces on both sides working to keep them apart. Only, what if the Alpha are not actually the enemy? What if they are in fact humanity’s only hope of survival? Because the real enemy is coming. And it’s more terrifying than anything the world has ever seen.

Poison by Chris Wooding

Poison has always been a willful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when her sister is snatched by the mean-spirited faeries, she seeks out the Phaerie Lord to get her back.

But finding him isn't easy, and the quest leads Poison into a murderous world of intrigue, danger, and deadly storytelling. With only her wits and her friends to aid her, Poison must survive the attentions of the Phaerie Lord, rescue her sister, and thwart a plot that's beyond anything she (or the reader) can imagine. . . .

Kiki Strike by Kirsten Miller

Life will never be the same for Ananka Fishbein after she ventures into an enormous sinkhole near her New York City apartment. A million rats, delinquent Girl Scouts out for revenge, and a secret city below the streets of Manhattan combine in this remarkable novel about a darker side of New York City you have only just begun to know about…

Willa by Robert Beatty

Move without a sound. Steal without a trace.

Willa, a young night-spirit, is her clan's best thief. She creeps into the cabins of the day-folk under cover of darkness and takes what they won't miss. It's dangerous work--the day-folk kill whatever they don't understand--but Willa will do anything to win the approval of the padaran, the charismatic leader of the Faeran people.

When Willa's curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in the day-folk world, she calls upon the old powers of her beloved grandmother, and the unbreakable bonds of her forest allies, to escape. Only then does she begin to discover the shocking truth: that not all of her day-folk enemies are the same, and that the foundations of her own Faeran society are crumbling. What do you do when you realize that the society you were born and raised in is rife with evil? Do you raise your voice? Do you stand up against it?

As forces of unfathomable destruction encroach on her forest home, Willa must decide who she truly is, facing deadly force with the warmest compassion, sinister corruption with trusted alliance, and finding a home for her longing heart.

Sammy Keyes by Wendelin Van Draanen

Grams always told her those binoculars would get her into trouble. Now Sammy's witnessed a crime at the Heavenly Hotel-a light fingered thief stealing $4,000 from Madame Nashira, the astrologer with the fire-hazard hair-do. Thing is, while she was watching him, he was watching her, too...

First Light by Rebecca Stead

Peter is thrilled to join his parents on an expedition to Greenland, where his father studies global warming. Peter will get to skip school, drive a dogsled, and finally share in his dad's adventures. But on the ice cap, Peter struggles to understand a series of visions that both frighten and entice him. Thea has never seen the sun. Her extraordinary people, suspected of witchcraft and nearly driven to extinction, have retreated to a secret world they've built deep inside the arctic ice. As Thea dreams of a path to Earth's surface, Peter's search for answers brings him ever closer to her hidden home.