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Title: BLOS/CULP/SLEEP/ by Betsy Byars ISBN: 0-385-29433-6 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 01 February, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Mummy Doom
Comment: This book starts when a new teacher comes and then this girl named Letty calls a meeting to get rid of her. In the middle of using a device used to call the spirits, Blossom calls a goddess. The goddess gives her a challenge to get her goods back to her or else she will be cursed. Can she survive this quest or will she be cursed. Find it out in this exciting book of mysteries. I recommend this book because it is very exciting and it refreshes you in the morning when your going to school because it will make you think and concentrate which will refresh you.
Rating: 3
Summary: Improvement, but still no "Ghosts I Have Been".
Comment: This is better than "Dreadful Future". Peck has restored the slow, exquisite, romantic tone of the first two installments, and the storyline is stronger, but it still doesn't rise to the level of GIHB.
I will say upfront that I adore Blossom. Her strong will, her practicality and resourcefulness make her a character that I'm frankly surprised doesn't get more press when people are recommending books for young women. But I wish there would be less emphasis on her interaction with Letty and her minions. It's really not worth her time to worry about such things in the first place, and her crude "revenge" schemes are beneath her. I liked the perspective she had in GIHB, when she observes that she could have taken over the Sunny Thoughts/Busy Fingers, but wasn't interested, because there was a wider world available to her. I like her better when she's doing her own thing and not getting drawn into petty power games.
Secondly, when is Alexander going to man up already? Every time something out of the ordinary happens, he starts whimpering and begging for mercy like a little girl. I could understand that in GIHB, when he was 13, but he's going on 15 by now, and it's about time he started showing a maturity level at least equal to Blossom's. If he doesn't, she should just forget about him.
And as far as that goes, I wasn't entirely satisfied with the resolution of that love triangle. Alexander glares at Blossom for "losing" the INB pin so he "couldn't give it to Letty"; meanwhile, she claims to see "relief in his eyes". Or, maybe she's just seeing what she wants to see. If it really is that way, Peck should have been less ambiguous and had him say, "Well, I was going to give it to you," and have Blossom's jaw hit the pavement.
I did like the suffragette teacher, and the third appearance of Old Man Leverette. But as far as that goes, where's Daisy-Rae? Okay, so maybe she didn't "work", but that underscores what I said about DF: it is best simply forgotten. Or, as Dorothy Parker said, thrown with great force.
Rating: 5
Summary: Richard Peck Rocks
Comment: I read all of Richard Peck's books as a child and young adult, and am now getting my daughter started on them. Blossom Culp was always one of the most entertaining heroines I knew. Her world, brought to life by one of my favorite authors, was so foreign to me, and I loved and cherished every bit of her stories, as I did all of Mr. Peck's books.
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Title: The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck, S. November ISBN: 0141310944 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck, S. November ISBN: 0141310960 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck ISBN: 0140386718 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The River Between Us by Richard Peck ISBN: 0803727356 Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin ISBN: 0140386645 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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