Synopses & Reviews
"When someone asks for a reading suggestion, Enthusiasm is the first word off my tongue." --Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight
"There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an Enthusiast."
Julie knows from bitter experience: her best friend, Ashleigh, is an Enthusiast. Ashleigh's current fancy is also Julie's own passion, Pride and Prejudice, and the heroine's quest for True Love. And so Julie finds herself swept along with Ashleigh, dressed in vintage frocks and sneaking into a dance at the local all-boys' prep school. There they discover several likely candidates for True Love, including the handsome and sensitive Parr. And Julie begins to wonder if maybe this obsession of Ashleigh's isn't so bad after all. . . .
Fans of Jane Austen and Meg Cabot, and Maureen Johnson alike will swoon for Polly Shulman's charming novel.
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"[An] involving and often amusing narrative of friendship, courtship, and (of course) true love." Booklist
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"The ultimate resolution to the girls' romantic conflicts will not be a surprise to readers familiar with the genre; however, Julie's wry voice and self-deprecating humor will make the conclusion more satisfying." VOYA
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"A charming romantic comedy." School Library Journal
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"Shulman manages to lift the story above standard fare with clever plotting and quirky, often elegant writing that should please the literary crowd while keeping romance lovers engaged. Several cuts above the usual fare." Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
A first-time novelist pens a Jane Austen-inspired romantic comedy of errors as two girls get a part in the boys' school musical. What follows is a series of misinterpreted and missed signals, dating mishaps, and awkward incidents.
Synopsis
Julie's best friend, Ashleigh, is an enthusiast. Julie never knows what newobsession will catch Ashleigh's fancy, but she does know shes likely to be drawn into the madness.
Ashleigh's latest craze is Julie's own passion, Pride and Prejudice. But Ashleigh can't just appreciate it as a great read; she insists on emulating the novel's heroines, in speech, dress, and the most important element of allfinding True Love. And so Julie finds herself with Ashleigh, dressed in vintage frocks, sneaking into a dance at the local all-boys prep school, where they discover some likely candidates.
The problem with Ashleigh's craze this time, however, is that there is only one Mr. Darcy. So when the girls get a part in the boys' school musical, what follows is naturally equal parts comedy and romance, as a series of misinterpreted and missed signals, dating mishaps, and awkward incidents make Julie wonder if she has the heart for True Love.
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Leo never imagined that time travel might really be possible, or that the objects in H. G. Wells science fiction novels might actually exist. But then a miniature time machine appears in Leos bedroom, and he recognizes one of the tiny riders: himself! His search for the time machine and his fate leads him to the New-York Circulating Material Repository, a magical library that lends out objects instead of books. Hidden away in the Repository basement is the Wells Bequest, a secret collection of powerful objects straight out of classic science fiction novels: robots, rockets, submarines, a shrink rayand one very famous time machine. And when Leos adventure of a lifetime suddenly turns deadly, he must attempt a journey to 1895 to warn real-life scientist Nikola Tesla about a dangerous invention. A race for time is on!
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This thrilling stand-alone companion to
The Grimm Legacy and
The Wells Bequest is a mind-bending, rousing adventure celebrating classic ghost and horror stories.
Sukies been lonely since the death of her big sister, Kittybut Kittys ghost is still with her. At first that was comforting, but now Kittys terrifying anyone who gets too close. Things get even weirder when Sukie moves into her familys ancestral home, and an older, less familiar ghost challenges her to find a treasure. Her classmate Cole is also experiencing apparitions. Fortunately, an antique brooms at hand to fly Sukie and Cole to the New-York Circulating Material Repositorys spooky Poe Annex. As they search for clues and untangle ancient secrets, they discover their histories intertwine and are as full of stories of love, revenge, and pirate hijinks as some of the most famous fiction.
About the Author
Polly Shulman has written about edible jellyfish, Egyptian tombs, infinity, blind dates, books, brains, centenarians, circuses, and cinematic versions of Jane Austen novels, for
The New York Times, Discover, Newsday, Salon, Slate, Scientific American, Archaeology, and
The Village Voice, among others. She edits news stories about fossils, meteors, the ocean, the weather, and the planets for
Science magazine. She collects Victorian jewelry made of human hair, puts cayenne pepper in her chocolate cookies, and reads forgotten books with frontispieces.
She is an alumna of Hunter College High School, Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, and Yale University, where she majored in math. She has never dared to crash a dance, but in tenth grade she did write a proof for math class in the form of a sonnet. She grew up in New York City, where she lives with her husband, Andrew Nahem, and their parakeet, Olive.