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I am looking for a book I read in 5th grade, this would have been 1998. Iin the book the girl is coming of age,jewish, tries catholicsm, writes i love and i hate lists, has a cat, brunette girl on cover with a mess around her. Has glasses also. This is all I can remember, so any help is appreciated. Title or author.
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I was quite small, perhaps eight, when it occurred to me how deeply I disliked the other children. I mean, it wasn’t as if I had wanted them dead or anything; it just didn’t seem as though we had much to say to one another. I’m sure that murdering fireflies and smearing the glowing intestines in a lurid streak across the grass with one’s shoe has its own rewards, but none that compare to an evening spent indoors, memorizing the recitative to an obscure Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and congratulating oneself on one’s own superiority.
Peering out my bedroom window with bemused disdain at the local gang of young ruffians, vulgar Philistines who had probably never heard of Derek Jacobi, as they pelted one another with water balloons or gleefully terrorized some delicate future interior decorator, I invented games of my own. Solitary, secretive games, tailored especially to my peculiar fixations. For example:
WHAT TO PACK WHEN FLEEING FROM THE NAZIS
Food, of course: Ziploc bags of Cheerios and Skittles, apple juice boxes, and cans of Diet Coke from the pantry. Family photographs – I’d want images of my annihilated relatives to occupy a place of honor at Yad Vashem. A few suitably depressing items of clothing and, finally, books. The books were the most important. Even the an activity as challenging as fleeing the Gestapo was bound to include some downtime, and the titles I packed were chock-full of helpful hints, sure to help me out of any jam or rat-infested crawlspace under an abandoned Warsaw building where I and three others lay hidden, eating rotten potato peels and creeping in the dead of the night to relieve ourselves in the frozen sewers.
I speak, of course, of the genre known as Young Adult Holocaust literature, a body of work specifically designed to remind Jewish children that no matter how safe they might feel, there will always be those who wish to destroy them. As on perspicacious young reader observed in his “Kid’s Review” (in the name of research, I browsed a few such tomes on Amazon recently): “Would you want to be a jew when you are getting ready to be killed by the germans I wouldn’t.”
I was quite small, perhaps eight, when it occurred to me how deeply I disliked the other children. I mean, it wasn’t as if I had wanted them dead or anything; it just didn’t seem as though we had much to say to one another. I’m sure that murdering fireflies and smearing the glowing intestines in a lurid streak across the grass with one’s shoe has its own rewards, but none that compare to an evening spent indoors, memorizing the recitative to an obscure Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and congratulating oneself on one’s own superiority.
Peering out my bedroom window with bemused disdain at the local gang of young ruffians, vulgar Philistines who had probably never heard of Derek Jacobi, as they pelted one another with water balloons or gleefully terrorized some delicate future interior decorator, I invented games of my own. Solitary, secretive games, tailored especially to my peculiar fixations. For example:
WHAT TO PACK WHEN FLEEING FROM THE NAZIS
Food, of course: Ziploc bags of Cheerios and Skittles, apple juice boxes, and cans of Diet Coke from the pantry. Family photographs – I’d want images of my annihilated relatives to occupy a place of honor at Yad Vashem. A few suitably depressing items of clothing and, finally, books. The books were the most important. Even the an activity as challenging as fleeing the Gestapo was bound to include some downtime, and the titles I packed were chock-full of helpful hints, sure to help me out of any jam or rat-infested crawlspace under an abandoned Warsaw building where I and three others lay hidden, eating rotten potato peels and creeping in the dead of the night to relieve ourselves in the frozen sewers.
I speak, of course, of the genre known as Young Adult Holocaust literature, a body of work specifically designed to remind Jewish children that no matter how safe they might feel, there will always be those who wish to destroy them. As on perspicacious young reader observed in his “Kid’s Review” (in the name of research, I browsed a few such tomes on Amazon recently): “Would you want to be a jew when you are getting ready to be killed by the germans I wouldn’t.”
My twin 11 year old nieces birthday and dont know what to get them?
Darlene
There turning 11, i dont want to spend a fortunate since there young. Loose stuff, and dont take of things as i did when that was that age? Any ideas?
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Think about there personality, what kind of things do your nieces like to do? If they like to read, get them books etc.
I like the idea of getting a packet of food for a gift. A king sized bar of chocolate would probably be ideal because most children up to that age have only had chocolate that was shared out and never got a large bar all to themself before, plus they'll probably eat it before they get a chance to loose it!
Cash is also a good gift and 11 year olds are just old enough to start getting it. They will enjoy the freedom of being able to choose their own gift.
Bedroom decorations (Like cheap wall stickers) in designs that are appropriate for teenagers would be cool so that they can re-decorate ready for their teenage years.
You could give them each a rose bush or small tree or other small plant to nuture and watch grow. The idea is that these trees will grow with them as they grow into adults.
I've recently written a blog post on gifts for teenagers, 11 is pretty close so check it out for tonnes more ideas.
http://birthdayparties-and-other-art.blogspot.co.nz/
Also look at this article
http://www.ehow.com/way_5428122_gifts-preteen-girls.html
Think about there personality, what kind of things do your nieces like to do? If they like to read, get them books etc.
I like the idea of getting a packet of food for a gift. A king sized bar of chocolate would probably be ideal because most children up to that age have only had chocolate that was shared out and never got a large bar all to themself before, plus they'll probably eat it before they get a chance to loose it!
Cash is also a good gift and 11 year olds are just old enough to start getting it. They will enjoy the freedom of being able to choose their own gift.
Bedroom decorations (Like cheap wall stickers) in designs that are appropriate for teenagers would be cool so that they can re-decorate ready for their teenage years.
You could give them each a rose bush or small tree or other small plant to nuture and watch grow. The idea is that these trees will grow with them as they grow into adults.
I've recently written a blog post on gifts for teenagers, 11 is pretty close so check it out for tonnes more ideas.
http://birthdayparties-and-other-art.blogspot.co.nz/
Also look at this article
http://www.ehow.com/way_5428122_gifts-preteen-girls.html
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