Lockwood, Cara. Wuthering High.LOCKWOOD, Cara. Wuthering High. Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. , MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. . 257p. c2006. 1-4165-2475-5. $9.95. JS A new series within a new line of MTV Books, Wuthering High is surprisingly good. What starts out like a potentially empty chick-lit story develops into something more as readers are introduced to Miranda, a semi-spoiled rich girl who ran up her stepmother's credit cards, totalled her father's BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. , and came home drunk the night before her PSAT PSAT Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test PSAT Puget Sound Action Team PSAT Particulate Source Apportionment Technology PSAT Predicted Site Acquisition Table PSAT Princeton South Asian Theatrics PSAT Pacific Situation Assessment Team (DoD) . Sent to Bard bard, in Wales, term originally used to refer to the order of minstrel-poets who composed and recited the poems that celebrated the feats of Celtic chieftains and warriors. Academy, a boarding school for troubled teens, Miranda must learn to live among those she previously deemed beneath her, including her Satan-worshipping roommate. She needs to do this without her blow dryer, cell phone, or iPod, as no electronics are allowed. The school is eerily cold and Gothic, with all of the teachers known only by a first initial and one teacher leaving a puddle wherever she goes. Shortly after Miranda arrives at the school, bizarre and unexplainable occurrences plague her. She befriends a few students who work with her to uncover the dangerous mysteries that fill Bard Academy. Part chick-lit, part Gothic mystery, part supernatural suspense, and touched with humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , Wuthering High is seemingly genre-resistant and hard to explain without giving away critical plot points. What is easy to say is that it is a page-turner with a satisfying ending leading to what is sure to be a highly anticipated sequel. Stephanie Squicciarini, Teen Svcs Libn, Fairport PL, Fairport, NY 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. |
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