EMILY THE STRANGE
DARK TIMES
By: Rob Reger and Jessica Gruner
FIRST SENTENCE
“Have been busy busy busy with packing, moving, and unpacking my stuff, but FINALLY made it out of the house this evening to scope our new town and pick up some back-to-school supplies—just the basics. ”
SUMMARY
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from goodreads
Emily’s uniquely strange homeschool syllabus includes:
1 Time Travel 101
2 Advanced Spy Photography
3 Bonnet Basics
4 Great Aunts Through the Ages
5 Intro to Germ Theory
6 Care and Feeding of ‘Squito Fish
7 Fundamentals of Black Rock
8 Spiderweb Embroidery
9 Historical & Contemporary Felines
10 Pop Quizzes
11 Foodstuffs of the 1780s
12 Thwarting Ancestral Enemies
13 Techniques in Parallel
REVIEW
Emily the Strange takes on homeschooling in Dark Times. Emily has always hated school and found creative ways to skip class. Now, it’s Emily’s turn to teach herself, with a little help from her mom. Emily’s classes have weird names and she learns some pretty wacky stuff.
Emily’s “Great Aunts Through the Ages” class leads to a mysterious trip back-in-time. I loved getting a glimpse into the lives of Emily’s ancestors. Once every generation, there is a strange little girl born who becomes a “Great Aunt.” We find out that Emily is one of these little girls and now things are starting to make sense.
As always, Emily’s diary is filled with doodles – but this time she adds finger paintings to the mix. I like that there are little surprises like that in the Emily the Strange books. Emily is very smart and her time travel concoction is the perfect evil scientist invention. I just love all of her crazy creations!
Dark Times takes Emily the Strange to another place and time. Science fiction meets historical fiction with mysteriously creepy results. Experience the strangeness yourself when Dark Times releases on January 1, 2011. Happy Creepy New Year indeed!
RATING
5 Plot
5 Characters
5 Attention Grabbing
5 Girlie Meter
4 Ending
24 TOTAL
5 STARS
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