Rachel Crow Interview

RACHEL CROW

Did you see Rachel Crow on X Factor last season? She was only 13 years old but she blew Simon Cowell away. Now she's 14 and is working on her very own album with Columbia Records, and she has a guest starring role on Fred: The Show on Nickelodeon. Read on to find out more about this amazing talent!

Q: Tell us about your new role on Fred.

New Hall of Horrors Book by R.L. Stine

Goosebumps Hall of Horrors 

Many of you have been scared, spooked, and terrified from reading Goosebumps books. The newest book from the Hall of Horrors series is no exception. It’s called The Birthday Party of No Return! and it will definitely give you a scare! 

In this book, Lee Hargrove wishes he could be lucky like his friend, Cory Duckworth. Cory has to be the luckiest kid on the planet. All Lee wants is to get a scholarship to Summer Sports Camp, but he's competing against Cory. Then Lee receives a good luck charm in the mail and his life seems to change immediately . . . until bad things start to happen.

R. L. Stine always comes up with spine-tingling titles that are sure to catch the attention of readers. A book title is very important to R.L. Stine, and the first thing he does when writing a new book is to create the title.

Can you make up a title that would give readers the chills? Create your own Goosebumps title and post it in the Comments. Don’t forget to make it extra spooky!

—Vanessa, Scholastic Staffer

 

 

 

Color Blindness Quiz

Color Blindness Trivia Quiz

What do Mr. Rogers, Bill Clinton, Keanu Reeves and Prince William all have in common? Besides being famous, they also all happen to be color blind! Inspired by our Left Handers Trivia Quiz, we decided to do a Color Blindness Quiz. To get you revved up, take a look at this image and see if you can decipher what letter or number it shows. Which leads us to our first Quiz question. . .

1. What letter or number is inside the circle? If you can't tell, chances are you're color blind!
2. TRUE or FALSE. If you're color blind, you can't see any colors at all.
3. Who is more likely to be color blind, men or women?  
4. Name a job that requires you NOT to be color blind.  
5. Are bees color blind?  
6. If you're color blind, how many color hues are you able to see? A. 0 B. 3 C. 20 D. 50 
7. Name the cure for color blindness.
8. How can a color blind person tell if a traffic light is red or green? 
9. If a woman is color blind, will all her sons be color blind?

Leave your answers in the Comments below, and check the official answers!

— Ratha, STACKS Writer

Personality Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to last week's Personality Quiz. What's your personality?

Check your answers to the questions from last week, and count how many times you picked A, how many times you picked B, and how many times you picked C. You might be evenly split between all 3. That means you are pretty balanced between all these personalities. But if you picked one letter more than the others . . . 

MOSTLY A's
You're fashionable, and LOVE outfits and gossip. The best of the best won't even make you smile sometimes. Try to lower your expectations. It'll make everyone happier.

MOSTLY B's
You are sporty and casual. You could grow up to be an amazing athlete with tons of fans, (but don't get too carried away. I'm no fortune teller.)

MOSTLY C's
You're a bit of everything. Because of this, you can be almost anything you set your mind to. Just remember, I'm no fortune teller.

Thanks for participating!!!!!

Thank YOU for the awesome quiz, FairyEmerald31! If anyone else has quiz ideas, feel free to type them up in the Message Boards. I can't promise to use them all in the blog, but I will try to use some of them!

— Sonja, STACKS Staffer

Writing Prompt: Superpower

Writing Prompt: Superpower

It's a bird; it's a plane; it's YOU! Because you are a superhero, and your superpower is . . .? Today's Write On Writing Prompt comes to us from Arianna who asks:

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

I would want to fly. It would be awesome to just take off whenever I wanted, be one with the birds, and of course, I could avoid a lot of traffic.

What about you guys? What would your superpower be? Inquiring minds like Arianna want to know! Leave your answer in the Comments below.

— Ratha, STACKS Writer