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I interviewed 14-year-old Abigail Breslin this week, and asked about her role as Priscilla, the gun-toting young mouse in the new animated movie Rango (rated PG), but what I really wanted to know is, has she been cast in The Hunger Games movie?? Read on to find out. . .
Welcome to Scholastic Booktalks where we recommend brand new Scholastic books that we think you will love. Today's booktalk is: The Midnight Tunnel: A Suzanna Snow Mystery by Angie Frazier.
It's July of 1904 and Suzanna Snow (Zanna to her friends) is stuck in sleepy Loch Harbor, New Brunswick, helping her parents manage the beautiful Rosemount Hotel, but she really wants to be a detective like her uncle, the famous Bruce Snow. While she spends her days serving tea to ornery guests and trying to get the biggest lobsters for the cook's banquet table, Zanna takes notes on the hotel guests and any peculiar circumstances she encounters. . . an abandoned cigar and pair of socks on the beach. . . a bellhop's angry attitude. She longs to take a trip to Boston to study with her uncle, but he doesn't even return her letters. Zanna's summer looks like it will be another long boring stretch of chores. . . until little Maddie Cook disappears during a power outage in a thunderstorm, and Zanna is the only witness to her abduction.
Read about Suzanna Snow's adventures to see if you can solve the mystery of The Midnight Tunnel. And, look for the sequel The Mastermind Plot coming in March, 2012.
— Melissa, Scholastic Booktalker
Welcome to Trivia Tuesday! One of the really awesome things about working at Scholastic is that I get to meet a lot of authors, and ask them questions about their books. (I know, I'm so lucky!!) The first time I met Meg Cabot, the author of Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls, one of the questions I asked her was:
Who is the character of Allie Finkle based on?
Your job today is to find out the answer! This is a pretty tough question, but the answer is somewhere on this site — from the lips of author Meg Cabot herself. So here's a hint . . .
Good luck!
In last week's Trivia Quiz, I relayed the shocking announcement that the earth's wobbly axis shifted, scrambling all the zodiac signs. So, how well do you know the NEW zodiac? Were you able to match the dates below with the correct astrology sign - including the new sign, Ophiuchus? Here are the answers.
I got this fun idea from a Comment to Karen's Create a Caption post.
51dotfeg commented:
Why can't we have a never ending sentence that we keep adding comments too? It would be funny.
I love it!! I'll start the sentence. . .
I was on my way to school on the day of a big test, when all of a sudden. . .
Write your continuation of the sentence in the Comments. I can't wait to find out what happens next!
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