Conrad, Liza. The poker diaries, a novel.CONRAD Conrad, Latin king of Jerusalem Conrad, d. 1192, Latin king of Jerusalem (1192), marquis of Montferrat, a leading figure in the Third Crusade (see Crusades). He saved Tyre from the Saracens and became (1187) its lord. , Liza. The poker poker, card game, believed to have originated in Asia and first played in the United States in the 19th cent. A traditional cutthroat gambling game at first, it is now also an internationally popular social pastime. diaries, a novel. Penguin penguin, originally the common name for the now extinct great auk of the N Atlantic and now used (since the 19th cent.) for the unrelated antarctic diving birds. , NAL NAL National Agricultural Library (Agricultural Research Service; US Department of Agriculture) NAL New American Library NAL National Accelerator Laboratory NAL National Aerospace Laboratory (Japan) . 210p. c2007. 978-0-451-22024-0. $9.99. JS With the current interest in poker, this book will be popular. It is the story of Lulu, whose parents are divorced, but who has the best of both worlds: her mom (1) (Messaging-Oriented Middleware) See messaging middleware. (2) (Microsoft Operations Manager) Software that monitors and captures system and application events throughout the network. offers high society, art galleries, wealth, and the finer things of life; her dad helps run her grandfather's bar, is a gambler by trade, and teaches her so much about playing poker that she can beat even him. Lulu loves to play poker and is quite good. She gets in a jam when her uptown friend Dack gets mixed up in the wrong poker-playing circles, loses an invaluable watch, and asks her to play in an illegal poker game to try to win it back. At the same time, Lulu has a romantic interest in her downtown friend Mark, whom both parents have forbidden her to see. Her life is further complicated when her mother dates the mayor of New York City The Mayor of New York City is the head of the executive branch of the Government of New York City. The office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within the city. and expects Lulu to be the model daughter for the media. Everything explodes when Lulu is blackmailed into playing poker for some unsavory characters and the police raid the game. This is a well-crafted story of what happens when a teen tries to help a friend by doing the "wrong" thing for a good reason. J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. Nancy Chrismer, Libn., Juniata HS, Mifflintown, PA |
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