No, it is NOT funny or okay for a man to tell his little girl and her friend to take off their clothes. Not only is it not giggle-worthy, but children need to know before the age of seven how to recognize what kind of adult behavior toward children isn't okay, and a lot of children reading a novel like this would be younger than twelve. You were only seven years old, for pete's sake." Maybe the frequent uses of "good grief" and "for pete's sake" are also supposed to be funny, but the repetition got old to me after the first several times.Īlso, the little account about a little girl's dad (not Anastasia or Anastasia's dad) making a movie where the little girl and her little friend (also not Anastasia) "had to run on the beach with no clothes on while he took movies," and the moviemaker dad (of course) didn't tell his little daughter's little friend's parents he was going to do that, and Anastasia now giggles at the account about the other two girls, telling one of them, "It wasn't porno or anything, though. So.although Anastasia's moodiness is realistic for a twelve-year-old, and I can see why her sarcasm is meant to be humorous to the reader, I couldn't always laugh because even after enjoying Book One, I still don't dig how smart-alecky Anastasia is with her parents, and I couldn't find her too likable through the attitude.
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Urn:oclc:22662786 Republisher_date 20151010080151 Republisher_operator Scandate 20151007024601 Scanner . Agriculture and Food Arts Basic Data and Information Biology Economy Education and Knowledge Health, Illness, Medicine and Death History, Prehistory and. OL2731782W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.25 Pages 334 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0585282641 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:44:53.350049 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1137304 Boxid_2 CH120313 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Albuquerque Containerid S0022 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. Additionally, important elements from two more Clarke stories, " Encounter in the Dawn" and (to a somewhat lesser extent) " Rescue Party", made their way into the finished project. These included " Breaking Strain", "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting.", "Who's There?", " Into the Comet", and " Before Eden". 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