So Yesterday in Brazil

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International Cover Month concludes with the brazillionth version of So Yesterday. (Okay, there haven’t really been a brazillion yet, but this one is from Brazil.)

The paper doll theme is brilliant, and you can really appreciate the concept when you fold out the entire jacket—front, back, spine, and flaps:

But what’s really fun is the webcard for the cover. I dare you not to giggle while watching that.

Oh, and here’s the publisher’s site for all you Portuguese speakers.

I’m pretty sure that tao ontem means “so yesterday” in Portuguese, so it’s one of the rare direct translations of the title. I wonder if it means the same thing in Brazil.

Okay, no more furrin’ covers for a while. I’m going to be blogging about Extras pretty obsessively for the next 23 days, which is how long till Book 4 comes out.

Next week, I’ll be unveiling the Extras Countdown Timer!

76 thoughts on “So Yesterday in Brazil”

  2. I love that webcard! There’s such random stuff in there! I’m so glad that So Yesterday is finally getting around the world; it’s popularity is growing! muahaha!

  7. Today, Brazil. Tomorow, the world.
    The webcard is amazing. And I love the cover. It’s so cute.
    Can’t wait for the obsessive Extras blogging.

  8. thats a pretty wicked sweet cover!!! and i cant wait for Extras to come out!! i already pre-ordered!!! and i have already started my Extras countdown *giggle* *giggle*

  9. i have a volleyball game the day extras comes out.

    P.S. i am uploading a video on youtube that has to do with scott’s books. once it is done, i will put the link on my name

  10. I did giggle, it was so weird.
    My friends are about to strangle me because every day I tell them how many days, hours, minutes, secinds until EXTRAS comes out and you go to Chicago and also put in a quote.
    Can you make a diagram of Jen’s laces (6 holes on each side. 12 :{ total)

  13. hehe!
    Scott-la…where have you been. like ten peeps have already posted count down sites, and like ten other peeps are telling everybody how long. like me!:

    Only 1968083 Seconds Til EXTRAS!!!
    (thats a multiple of 13…just sayin)

    But i do love the cover and webcard!
    still havent read it yet. but i will!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  17. wow…and i was a bit confused once i stopped laughing at that webcard….at first i thought they were both guys until they put one in a skirt…sad i know.
    i probably shoulda figured it out when one was in a bra but i’m slow like that.

    and i’m going to see The Lion King in NYC the day before my birthday (nov 12)!!! and then on December 5th, i’m going to see Wicked in NYC with my school’s chorus! i sound completely ADHD, but come on, WICKED! BEST MUSICAL EVER!!!

    and scott, do you know the dates you’ll be in New York yet?

    amy-la upload your video soon i want to see it! i’m gonna go take some ritalin now…jk i’m just naturally hyper

  19. scheeshz! there are a lot of nov. b-days on here. im nov. 29.

    hey so you no how Specials comes out in paperback sept. 11? well thats my moms b-day. so im gonna get it for her(even though she still hasnt read Uglies or Pretties…and doesnt really want two) and then i’ll just borrow it all the time…maybe keep it in my room. you no…just to save her some space. 😉

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  20. OMG!!! CANT WAIT FOR EXTRAS!!! Im rereading uglies, pretties and specials to help pass the time. SO EXCITED!!

    SWEET cover scott. i watched the whole webcard without giggling. but it was hard. HI-LARIOUS! i luv.

    CANT WAIT!!!! 23 days. thats how many seconds…? lets see… calculator says 1987200 (multiple of thirteen!)…1987199….1987189…1987197…… O my word i m SOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  23. i couldnt help but laugh. they put a kilt skirty thingy on the guy.

    so my little brother and sister just went fishing with my dad. and they only caught one fish. but then my stupid little sister goes and NAMES it! i’ll be eating TOM for dinner. i hate it when she names the fish. its like eating a homeless puppy. ok not THAT bad but still. i think i’ll just eat cereal.

    ewwwwwwwww they’re cleaning it now! i would tell you guys more but i HATE looking at blood!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙁

  24. ewwwwwwwww. fishy. poor tom. i can never catch anything when i go fishing. actually i never go fishing because it is so incredibly BORING!!!! ;P
    i hate blood 2 *shudders*

  25. Wow, love the whole paper dolls concept for a cover. Reminds me of the good old days playing with paper dolls as a little kid. 😉

    Can’t believe there’re only 23 days left–so exciting. Can’t wait! (It helps quench the thirst that the next blog entries will be obesseively related to Extras =D

    Ooh, Extras Countdown Timer… sounds brilliant!

  27. Just saying, Extras has me salivating. I really hope you make an appearance in NY. I need to get my packet and the actual book signed.

  30. im soooooooooo going to go to see Scott-la in Seattle! im gonna have him sign my t-shirt and book and im gonna take a picture with him.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  31. the paper doll thing is actually really cool. i think that’s my fav so yesterday cover.

    and i CAN’T WAIT FOR EXTRAS!!! can’t believe it’s only 23 days!! also can’t wait for obsessive extras blogging. i’m one of those obsessive losers who reads and writes a lot and loves to hear authors talk all about thier books.

    and lizzy-wa, donnie darko is a movie. no, i haven’t seen it, but it has nothing to do with the books.

    EXTRAS!!! i’m too lazy to have a countdown for extras. though, obsessively, i do have one for City of Ashes, and that doesn’t come out til april. 234 daysish, i think.

  33. I like the cover too. The paper doll theme is fool.

    Extras, can’t wait. yaaaaaaaaay and can’t wait for obsessive Extras blogging.

  34. I don’t really like it. I think our cover for it was a thousand times fawesomer. with all the little pictures

  35. nah. i like theres better. i REALLY like the german UGLIES books. theyre sooooo fool! i wonder what there gonna do for EXTAS. Less Than 2 mill seconds left! woooo!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  37. Yes! Obsessive blogging about Extras!

    I agree. I like our little pictures more than the paper dolls. But hey, for the bazillionth So Yesterday translation! Congrats! You deserved it.

  43. I just realized that there’s a kilt on the cover of Brazilian So Yesterday. I dunno if any of us will live to see the day kilts are ‘in style’. Or is fashion really REALLY different in Brazil? I’d like to see a high school where all the hip guys are wearing kilts. It’d be pretty funny.
    I just love the cover, though. Not many foreign versions of So Yesterday have been very orignial, have they?

  45. lol if i could figure out what the insturctions said i would send that to all my friends ..oo i can’t wait for the Extras timer!!!!!

  46. seriously, i am so excited for extras, i can’t even contain myself. i’m going to have a reading marathon here pretty soon and read all three books in a couple days to get refreshed just in time for book no. 4. wow. i’m excited

  47. Haha! That webcard is entertaining! 🙂
    And I’ve had a countdown for Extras on my myspace page for months now! I totally beat you!

  48. i love house NOW, after kadie-wa’s been doing it for like 2 and 1/2 months, scott decides he’ll put up an extras countdown.

    lol maybe scott DOES read the comments!

  50. Kailyx-la…so funny! yes then guys would have to start shaving there legs. or wearing tites! hehe!!!!!!
    hey! i’ve been doing the countdown two! down to the second. Kadie-wa only does it down to the day. although it IS pretty cool how she does the whole…month, day, hour, minute, second…thingy. and she HAS been doing it for longer than me. but thats ONLY because i just started on here like a month ago. i dont now HOW i lived without u guys. ur soooo much funnier than my friends at school.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  51. so i painted my nails yestrday. one hand has 3 shades of pink, black, and lime green. the other has hot pink on the pinky and thumb, black on the ring and index, and lime green on the middle. all of my friends think im losin’ it, and half the guys in my class accused my of going goth. i will never go goth. even if they did make up halloween.(according to Dess) and EVERYBODY thinks im losin it cause i traded my friend a shoe and wore one slip on and one platform flip flop. nobody accused her because she just said that i STOLE it from her. dizzy-making.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  52. speaking of her…she has read uglies and is halfway threw pretties. but she wont talk to u guys! shes like: thats boring! i dont do that! (and she says it all mockinglyly) her life would be so much more interesting if she did everything i do. and if she new u guys of course.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  55. Aaah! Only 23 days?! Will we still be able to win a signed Extra’s anything? I was so looking forward to it. *siiiiiigh* =]

  57. i never even bother to paint my nails b/c it always smudges or something since i can never be patient enough to wait for them to completely dry. well i do for special occasions, but i just use remover to take it off after 2-3 days so they won’t get like super chipped.

    how off-topic is this?

  58. OMG cant wait for EXTRAS ive been bugging parents for days and weeks to go to Chicago… i got my license today!!! i could so go down there myself … but through chicago hmm… maybe ill take bus… scotts hand is going to get a real workout… 🙂

  59. haha kheidi-la…

    can you say “carpal tunnel?”

    and lucky person! i can’t get my license till next november. hey what’s the driving age in your state? it’s 16 in NY.

  61. i really wonder what extras’ll really be about. like, what’ll happen and stuff. and if/how tally shows up…and how all the pretty-heads adapt to the whole mind-rain thing. and who the “sly girls” ppl the amazon summary mention are. and what happens with tally and david. and how they get to japan. and….well, what the whole books is, really.

    cuz all we really know is that it takes place in the same world as uglies, it’s after specials, it’s in japan, and it’s aya fuse. arrrg, i can’t wait to read it!!!!!!
    anybody else have theories about what’s gonna happen?

  62. no idea

    and Kadie-wa…remember…earlier we were talking about how like everybody on here was born in nov!

    Serafina-la…you ask lots of questions!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

    by the way Taylor-wa…i am NOT a stalker. although this guy i know has a picture of me in his room! how dizzy-making is THAT!?!?!? so gross! i dont even no how he GOT it! it better be a good picture…thats all i’m sayin. STALKER!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛 (again)

  64. i ask lots of questions, but i get very few anserws.

    okay, there’s my profound-ness quota for the day. ha! stalker. and i wasn’t born in november. my birthday’s in the summer.
    now i return to my history homework.

  65. Aaaaah! I still need to preorder Extras! My mom keeps saying that I should just wait until the library has it, but by then I’ll have heard everything about the book! And it’s my money. I can buy it if I want to.

    Anyway, cute cover!

  67. ok so everyone except Serafina-la has a nov. b-day. Kadie-wa…mines the 29th.

    but Serafina-la…i can answer one question. i think Aya will get bored of being an EXTRA, so she will run away…but not for the old reasons. just because shes bored. then in the wild she will meet up with Tally and David. then they will end up saving the world…again. but im not sure how. maybe Dr.C will recreate Specials with old Specials who want to be Special again and they will try to–says in evil villain voice–TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD! MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! and then Tally and David and Aya and maybe even Shay and Fausto will PUT A STOP TO IT!
    it’s just a theore tho.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  71. that cover’s so kawaii (cute)!
    although i like the American version… i like covers that make the book look mysterious 🙂
    Yay i cant wait till Extras!!!

  73. o.k my b-day’s Oct.5, I guess I’m not in the club. Anyways, The whole your picture on some random guy’s wall is kinda creepy(for u anyways) lol. This is pretty off topic but I’ll play along, I usually don’t paint my finger nails b/c when i get bored i chip it off and then it doesn’t look good anymore. But I paint my toenails b/c that would be weird if you know I got bored in a class and started picking at my toes.

  74. yes. people would think you were losin’ it! plus…that close to your face and all…they would probably REALLY stink!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  75. Hi, Scott.

    I’m a brazilian journalist. Your book is really amazing! And ‘Tão ontem’ means exactly ‘So yesterday’. No differences.

    Ps) I loved the cover! The paper doll is like a puzzle – it’s an exciting exercise to find a new match, a new look.

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