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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.”
What should I buy with my birthday money?
kate
Okay so I got 8,000$ for my birthday because I just turned 15 (: and of course I said thanks to my mommy and daddy(: and I took them out to dinner and I bought them some things too, but idk what to buy for myself? Any ideas I love shopping and I enjoy video games any good girl video games I would enjoy?? Is the wii u good? I'm remodeling my bedroom so that's just gonna be like about 1,500$ but I still have so much left over??? Any ideas? Purses, smartphone which one? No rude comments please. Just to let you more about me = I'm a 15 year old girl, I live in California, I like video games,shopping,I live next to the beach so idk a new surfboard? Idk I just need ideas?(:
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Hmmmmm I would just get a car and a monkey. lol jk
Go to the mall with your friends and get random sh*t haha and any cute clothes of course.
Get the iPhone5, anddd as for video games for Wii Im the same age as you and I love "Animal Crossing" but it gets boring after awhile, "Super Smash Bros. Melee" is DEF the funnest game to play with friends or Mario Kart, I also like to play Black Opps , I installed this game on my wii called "Mix Superstar" you can make your own music, you design the beat and you can add audio of your voice if you like that sort of stuff(:
Hmmmmm I would just get a car and a monkey. lol jk
Go to the mall with your friends and get random sh*t haha and any cute clothes of course.
Get the iPhone5, anddd as for video games for Wii Im the same age as you and I love "Animal Crossing" but it gets boring after awhile, "Super Smash Bros. Melee" is DEF the funnest game to play with friends or Mario Kart, I also like to play Black Opps , I installed this game on my wii called "Mix Superstar" you can make your own music, you design the beat and you can add audio of your voice if you like that sort of stuff(:
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