Notable Extras

Posted on by scott

Thanks to those of you who’ve written to inform me that Extras is on the NY Times‘ Notable Children’s Books list for 2007. There are only six books on the list, and only three or four of them are arguably YA, so it’s certainly an honor.

Congrats to the other five authors who made it:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By Sherman Alexie. Illustrated by Ellen Forney. (Little, Brown)
And awesome and funny tale of life on the rez, much deserved winner of the National Book Award (full disclosure: I was on the jury, as disussed here).

The Arrival
By Shaun Tan. (Scholastic)
An amazing worldess graphic novel/picture book about the immigrant experience, as mentioned in my post here.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
By J. K. Rowling. Illustrated by Mary GrandPré. (Scholastic)
Um, I think you know this one.

And for the littlies in your life:

How to Be a Baby . . . By Me, the Big Sister
By Sally Lloyd-Jones. Illustrated by Sue Heap. (Random House)
A picture book from the POV of the older sibling.

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
By Paul Fleischman. Illustrated by Julie Paschkis. (Holt)
A mega-multicultural picture book version of Cinderella.

I really enjoyed the Times‘ description of Extras . . .

The finale to Westerfeld’s thought-provoking Uglies series, set in a postindustrial dystopia, continues its dissection of a culture transfixed by beauty and celebrity. In the future, everyone tries to raise his or her “face rank” within the fame economy, using personal hovercams, as if would-be star and member of the paparrazi at the same time. There is also plenty of hoverboard derring-do as a band of outsiders confronts a new menace.

Is it just me, or does the term “derring-do” is seriously underused?

WARNING: All future posts on this blog will contain the phrase “hoverboard derring-do.”

182 thoughts on “Notable Extras”

  1. “Why the other day I was simply Hoverboard derring-do and the most amazing thing happpened…”

    I want to hear those lovely words in every day sentences! Then the world would be just a little bit more beautiful.

    Wistfully,

    Hannah

  2. congrats fer the noteable childrens books 0f 2007!! yay! and thats an amazing description of Extras. hahaha i like that..hoverboard derring-do…its shaweet lol

    .::aShLeY::.

  3. Wow, cograts. Another book list Extras is on. Umm…What does derring-do mean? I would try to find out using context clues but I have a baby that I’m holding, and she is wiping snot all over herself. RMI?

  6. ya what does that mean anyways? but i like it. totally underused. but hay is extras really the finale? i hope not! toally dipressing!

    and btw, has anyone heard of that movie juno? sounds good huh?

  8. Everybody should try to have some derring-do in them. Particularly hoverboard derring-do. The more, the better.

    ~Mary

  10. ooooooo! Derring-do!! i like 😀 but uh what exactly does that mean?? i would really like to know. Congrats on the accomplishment scott-la!!good for u!

  11. P.S. i recently updated my blog. go give it a look-see. it makes me sad when i dont get any comments (even though i havent put in anything new about scott but still i think its cool) 🙁

  16. hehe. derring-do. what does that mean? shoodnt it be like…daring-do…or sompthin? i dont get it…

    it snowed today! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  17. ahh i wish it would snow here..its supposed to snow tomorow. i really cant understand how people dont love the amazing fluffiness of teh snow.

    i havent been here for soo long! *shames*
    i’ve been studying for the SAT. i it took this morning..i am sooo exhausted right now.

    haha im watching harry potter right now, [such bad actors..] i love hp. its amazing. but scott, you deserve to be above j k rowling (like bowling! YES!). Congrats!

    i think i need sleep now =[

  18. hoverboard daring-do sometimes u need something beutiful but usless in the world
    like it
    like it i do
    very bubbly

  19. Oooh! I took the SAT this morning, too!! I did terrible on it…I didn’t even answer half the questions in some of the sections. And I had to wake up at 6:30 to get ready for it…and this morning just *has* to be the coldest morning in weeks…it actually got below 32 for once. Soooo boring and exhausting at the same time.

  20. Hee hee, derring sounds like herring. Hahahaha… I’m so tired I’m getting the giggles…. Congratulations to all!

  21. what’s derring-do even mean??? it sounds funny… lol…
    they use a lot of big words in the description of Extras… or maybe i just have a miniscule (ha! big word!) vocabualary (another one!) lol. i use lol a lot… lol! jk. 😀

  22. derring-do== “daring deeds”…sounds like harry potter!

    i hope i did well on the SAT, i cant wait to see my scores! i think i screwed the essay. though math was easy..

    aww does any one else loove the polar express? that is probably the best movie ever,. and i missed it yesterday! darn studying.

  23. Ha! Those words are small compared to the SAT words. If you want to expand your vocabulary, try looking up all the words on the SAT you don’t know.*

    I would elaborate, but I actually had to copy a statement – in cursive – and sign it, promising never to tell anyone about it. hehe.

    *Warning: May take several days to complete.

  24. oh my goodness that was so anoying. i was all prepared to remember the essay and questions and go out and tell my friends how to do well and then the instucter guy [ahhh he was so strict. i took it at a military school, cus i missed the cutoff date for our high school..] he was all “you cannot tell anyone about anything on the sat or your scores will be disqualified.” man, there were only like 5 other girls there with me, with like 200 guys wearing military uniforms and crew cuts..haha so funny..=]

    [i didnt find the vocab part that hard, maybe that was just my test. it was just the whole “what part of this sentence is wrong?” part that got me..”

  25. SATs are scary. i actually took it last year in 8th grade for some weird thing that i’d rather not try to explain, but my scores were actually not that bad. but i’ll have to do better when i take it in 11th though…so to you people who took it today: if a then-eighth grader can do okay on it, you both will probably get somewhere in the 700s! lol.

    i remember that statement! it freaked me out for awhile, b/c i got so scared that i’d accidentally mention it to someone and then get arrested or something. the 20-minute essay was bogus, i need way more planning than that!

  27. cool! not the only eighth grade SAT-er!

    –wait a minute, your school MAKES you take it in 8th grade??? mine doesn’t, it was just some weird thing. but that sucks…

  28. no i took it for this john hopkins program thing..the school doesnt really force us to do anything.

    it was rather akward though..like 200 military guys. that all knew each other. and then theres me…

  29. I’m in 7th. The eighth graders at my school actually don’t take it, that 7th graders do.

    I sucked at the vocab part…and the math part, and the reading part…which is pretty much the whole test. But the sentence part was easy, and so was the essay…at the workshop thing I did at school last week we had a practice test and I got all five of the sentence ones right…well, all of the ones I actually did (There were like 8, so, yeah…)

    And now I’m wondering if students across the country took it today, not just my school district.

  30. Congrats, Scott! But why do I doubt you’ll hold to your promise to use ‘derring-do’ in every post? It just doesn’t seem reasonable. Is it possible to use that word more than about once a month?

  31. back from grandmother’s house, which is another way of saying i just finished my full-day read-through of Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith (which was quite good, by the way) and i just KNEW that there would be a new post when i clicked on my westerboard link. that happens a lot. ha ha i’m psychic.

    i’m in 9th grade and i’ve never taken any SATs. is there something wrong with me? i would probably ace the vocab though. i rock vocab.
    wait…vaguely remembering laughing at an opportunity to take them last year because dude, why voulenteer for standardized testing? my district is obsessed enough with them already.

    Hoverboard Derring-Do. that is VIOLENTLY awesome. it demands to be Wearable Extra’d. Demands it.

  33. Hey lizzy-wa it snowed here too!! OMG! but now ice is raining from the sky. its pretty nasty out there… but if this keeps up i might not have school on monday… hmmm…

    I took the SAT in 5th grade and 6th grade. i took it in 5th grade to get into double excel math. i dont even know WHY i took it in 6th grade. and it really sucked that year too. cuz for half the test i REALLY REALLY REEEEAAAALLLLYYYYY had to pee, and for the other half my cell phone was on in my pocket and i kept thinking it was gonna ring during the test. not that anyone ever calls me. but i am very cell phone challenged. as in its never charged/on when someone actually calls me so it would figure that someone would Finally call me in the middle of the SAT. 😛

  34. not supposed to snow here til tommorrow.

    that’s like how the only time my cell phone ever rang out loud during school (it’s usually on silent) was when my social studies teacher (the crazy, axe-murdering one) won some award and was filming the class as a part of it. i freaked out, but nobody noticed it because i muffled the sound.

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? i’ve never heard of it.

    hmm…so you DO read fanmail, author-sensei

  35. FIFTH GRADE?!?! Are you joking!? You have to take the SAT to get into an advanced math class? I achieved that horror from making straight As through 5th grade.

    Then last year I made a couple B’s, but I’m still advanced this year (actually, they call it “honors”). And hopefully I won’t have to take Algebra again. I want to do geometry next year, which will hopefully be easier than algebra.

    Why didn’t you turn your phone off when they gave you the chance at the very beginning? I’ve never had that problem b/c, well, um, I don’t have a cell phone. It sucks.

    What is life but a
    series of winding roads with
    whispers of the past?

    I am convinced: The SAT is the new plague. But only students can catch it…

    I feel like making an obsessively long post. Which may be bad for your health, just like the SAT-plague. Okay, maybe it’s not as bad as the SAT-plague. I’d say 1/4 as bad (ouch…saying numbers now makes my mind hurt. srsly, I cringed when I typed that.)

    I am going to make a list of all the things I love, minus anything related to the internet:

    There once was rabbit
    That had a dog’s habit
    It would chase it’s short tail
    And the man with the mail
    Until a real dog would grab it. as in eat it, you know?

    – Good music (NOT classical, 80s, 80s, dance, or “easy listening”. And especially not rap.)
    – writing fiction short stories
    – writing poems
    – Stargate (both tv shows, and the movie)
    – Good books (This does NOT include any books that a certain language arts teacher likes. Some of my friends have an ELA teacher that doesn’t like the Uglies series but loves Twilight. I can’t comprehend that. How can you NOT like it?)
    – umm….

    ok, that’s pretty much all a can think of. And these are hobbies, not things (like people, for example. I’m not listing all the people I like…)

    You might like to know I’m alright.

    By the time I finish this comment there will probably be at least one more…right now this would be comment #34.

    I think I have succeeded in saying absolutely nothing in this comment.

  36. Woo! I tied my record!

    SERAFINA YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!

    OMG OMG OMG OMG Where were you when it broke records by selling over like 8 million copies around the world? I haven’t even read the series (mom won’t let me) and I know what it is!!!!!

    wow. That came out harsh. sry, but you’ve never heard of HArry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. That. is. amazing.

  37. yeah that whole john hopkins thing was the name of the company/foundation/whatever that i took mine with. there were no study things available at my school or anything, although that would be great if there was b/c i probably would’ve done better. but i was the only one in the school that took it i guess there was really no use for it…i didn’t even tell any of my friends i was taking it. the school only found out when they got my test scores in the mail and then just HAD to read them out loud during both the morning and afternoon announcements! it wasn’t nice. i don’t like being in the limelight all too much.

    i did better on writing/english/whatever it’s called than the math section. which i wasn’t really surprised at. i really like the whole “what’s wrong w/ this sentence part” b/c i’m FEXCELLENT with all of those grammar things. and spelling. vocab wasn’t too bad, but there were definitely some new words in there!

    have fun w/ fitting derring-do into every post; i have a feeling that this is going to get interesting!

    and serafina got a livejournal! i click every link that people have haha.
    i feel rather lonely. everyone has a blog but me! lol

    but i write would-be blog posts in my head every day just throghout school, meetings, etc., but i wouldn’t have time to actually post any of it! WAAAAAYYY too busy for that…

  38. and i don’t have a livejournal account so i can’t comment on your post! darn it…i had it all written out and then is said “this user has disabled anonymous posting. you must log into a livejournal account to leave a comment.”

    how phenomenally bogus.

  41. I am FAWESOME at the math section.
    ..not so much the “whats wrong w/ the sentence”

    i hope my school doesnt read out loud my scores, that would suck.
    but my schools the kind that would do that… -sigh-

    i have a cell phone, but i never use it. i always forget to bring it, or i have it on silent. i even forgot to bring it to the sat so i could call my dad when it was done.. i had to stand out in the cold til he found me..yeah. that was .not. fun.

  43. That is certainly a……intresting word. Um, i guess. I find it a little odd. O well, i dont care.
    It never snows in my state, did once. Got half inch of snow, that was a year ago. 5 years ago we got snow and by the time it hit the ground it was rain.

  46. hey, this has nothig to do with any of this, but, yeah oh, well….

    ok… scott, i am going 2 get in so much trouble because of u!! ok, im just now reading Extras, and it is so0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o good!! and now, all im doing is reading it, and i have TONS of homework (namely, 2 BIG projects) to do, and im getting almost nothing done because all i want 2 do is read Extras… but i gess thats a good thing 4 u, Bcuz that means u did really good on riting yet another FLAWSEM book

    ~~~l8r~~~ ~jackie

    ps… wow. long post i made there.

    🙂

  47. Congrats Scott. And I agree derring-do needs to be used alot more, it’s almost to the point of extinction right now.

  48. Wait, does this mean he isn’t writing another uglies book? Because the first line of the review says its the finale!
    Leave it to me to read a perfectly good review and only see the one possibly maybe bad thing.
    I love you scott!

  49. i know..i would have rather seen tallys point of view when she was with david in extras so i hope there is another book in the series coming out

  50. Oh no, Scott. xD I’ve been meaning to tell you that I have absolutely no idea what Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is.

    .__. There was only people blabbering spoilers and keeping timers on when the thing would finally come to stores for months. I think. That last day was such a blur to me, and I ended up hating the book. J. K. abused the sacred Death Hammer with little or no reason. Grrr.

    Then again, I obsess and blabber about all your books, so I suppose I have no room to be talking. :3

  51. Hi Scott, Congrats on the new award, I’m still absorbing Midnighters which was fantastic, I go around quoting Des’ last line of the last book all the time. I’m writing Y.A. novels, mainly because it is so exciting.Someone told me about teenage skaz, any views? Anyone? Its sort of a cross between Holden Caulfield, (Catcher in the Rye) Huck Finn and Meg Rossoff ( How I Live Now). The narrative sounds as though the main character is actually talking to you in the same room.
    Best, Miri from London

  52. it snowed! wooo! like, an inch or so, i think!
    snows all the time here. like, not ALL the time, but more than once a year.

    yeah, supposedly scott-la isn’t writing another uglies book.
    which is not nearly as unfair as not writing another midnighters book. yes, i know that publishers and contracts and things are involved, and i can see why they were more likely to ask for or approve another uglies book *scoffs* but come on! trilogy means four! it doesn’t even have to be a real book. post it on the blog! make it downloadable as a PDF file! make it a short story even! just…some…resolution. with possible darkling werewolves.
    come on. it would be awesome. so very very awesome.
    see? there’s lots of people on here who’d buy it. i’d buy ten copies and distribute them to friends. two or three years between books isn’t that long, look at that unknown JK with that “deathly hallows” book.
    (random, am i the only one who DESPISED the epilouge? ttly disgusted me)
    come on. you could rock that great reunion vibe (even randomer, but ppl know what i mean, right. like that magic thing Stephen Cole manages to do, where take characters you only moderately care about in a first book you only moderately care about [not that midnighters was one of those], and then you get to the finale and you’re cheering and the group fits so well together and it’s awesome) you know, like that. but with midnighters. and darkling werewolves.
    plz…………………………………..

  53. oooh, Scott-la, there’s 38 posts in the midnighters category. seems dangerous to me. you should add one more and then it’d be all awesome and anti-darklingy. (must add the y. anti-darkling is 12 letters, unless u count the hyphen)
    so many midnighters things you could post about (and it doesn’t even have to be about a fourth one or darkling werewolves)
    like, those multiple cool midnighters fanlinks i sent you (u know, the wiki, and the HQ, which are awesome. or are you ignoring us and our movement?)
    or like, all the midnighters fanart i sent you. i’m sure you have others hidden away somewhere. come on…everybody loves fanart…
    that 38 is begging to become a 39.
    begging…

  54. I’ve wondered this for, like, ever: does Scott-la ever read the comments?

    What if-what if, it’s not even Scott that’s writing the posts! What if it’s some guy that works for the publishing company! lol jk.

    After writing Leviathan(sp?) Scott’s going to need something to do, right? Well, um, how about A FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS WITH DARKLING WEREWOLVES!!!!!

    srsly, I would buy it. 30 times, and give them as Christmas presents to my whole class, for whatever year it comes out (unfortunately not this year. *wistful sigh*)

    But, srsly, there is like no way a publishing company or whatever would want another one. Like Serafina up there (^) said, it would be more likely for another Uglies book to come out. I mean, you don’t see Midnighters on the New York Times “notable books list”, do you? *another wistful sigh*

    My school wouldn’t say my scores on the announcements, and even if they did no one ever listens to them anyway. But i say that b/c like half the 7th graders at my school took it, and that would be reealllyy lllooonnnggg announcement. Unless I got a perfect score (which i know I didn’t.)

  56. and speaking of which, this comment is for u, Scott-Sensei.
    ******HEY AUTHOR-MAN COME LOOK AS YOU POSSIBLY SKIM THESE COMMENTS!!!!!******
    what is up with Levithan?
    is it one book?
    is that the title?
    is that a series title?
    is it gonna be another trilogy?
    another *trilogy*?
    have u finished writing it?
    have u started writing it?
    have u like, finished one but are working on others?
    what about rough release dates? next spring, next fall, next winter, what? i heard September 07 way back when, but i’m assuming that is way out.
    what’s it about?
    where/when is it set?
    what’s up with these *illustrations* we hear about?
    it’s gonna be another YA, right?
    is it first-person or third person?
    are you allowed to tell us any of these things or are your hands divinely tied?
    are the things written in the wikipedia entry true? (Franz Ferdinand [note to self, must remember to remind Friend With Better Stocked iPod Than I to burn me Franz Ferdinand albums…] 1914, ect?)
    is it really historical fiction? or more like loosely-fit historical fantasy?
    it’s gonna be like, steampunkish, right? with airships and stuff? what’s with those whole concepts?
    WHEN? WHEN IS IT COMING? WHEN SHALL WE KNOW? WHEN WILL YOU ANSERW MY QUESTIONS?
    (please anserw my questions. i am curiously. you know, a post, like The Truth About Levithan wouldn’t be amis either. but i’m not too demanding. even, like, one anserw would be cool. especially if it’s a release-date one. even if the anserw is like 2010. though i hope it isn’t…)

  57. Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll get some nice posts about it close to its release date. Won’t we?

    New signature:

    ~ Allie-wa CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES!!!!!
    😈

  58. WHAT DOES DERRIN-DO MEAN?
    It is driving me crazy, considering i study for my lit test and then forget the words its not like im some enstien here.
    I hate liturature. URG.

  63. or, you know, scott-la, what would be another cool idea for the 39th anniversary Midnighters post? the Lasceaux Caves. i’m serious, check it out. they were like darkling CENTRAL. i mean, the roman numeral for thirteen on the walls, creepy unicorn-halflings, and much, much more!
    i sent a partial report on why they are proof of darklingness. it is obvious.
    hey, maybe they could go there in the FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS!
    seriously, i’d buy no less than four copies. i mean, i only bought 2 copies of extras, but both me and my mom would need the 4th midnighters, so we’d both order them, but amazon probably wouldn’t come fast enough so we’d go to borders and buy two copies and donate the others to the library, and there you go. four copies in one household.
    seriously, i could see Dess geeking out about it. maybe i’ll go find where i posted my laseux stuff…here it is. comment six.
    http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=313#comment-275886
    random, but i was just thinking about that before.

    my mom finished Specials! now she’s all like, yes, i think i’ll eat breakfast and then peruse the signed three-chapters sampler before i start Extras. and i’m just like, you do not know how good you have it.

  64. i’m bored. apparently Leviathan had a wikipedia entry. it is remarakably stub-like. it is contradicting as to whether the book will be released in 2008 or 9.
    i like the wikipedia “horror novel” icon
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Horrornovel.png
    aww…they’re Zahler-bashing in the Last Days wikipedia article. must. edit. to. slightly. more. flattering.ness.
    why does everybody hate Zahler? he’s not like, stupid.

    bored…and…wishing…for…book…news…

  65. serafina! make it so that people w/o livejournals can comment! b/c i don’t have one, so i can’t write anything on it…lol see that’s why you don’t have any comments

    😛

  77. Wow. I’m listening to a song about Mary Jane (the drug…). I actually really like it (s=the song, not the drug.)

    I have an account on wikipedia. I edit there sometimes. I created an article there the other day, but it was deleted. 🙁 It ‘wasn’t notable’ apparently. yeah right.

  81. yeh i have an account on wiki too but its nothing too special…
    um, im making an uglies memories slideshow, but its not doing so well…
    so!what did i miss!

  82. sorry to bring up topics from soooo long ago, but i had to say something about this. there’s this guy at my school who took the SAT in 7th grade. he wanted to try for a perfect score, so he started early. he took the SAT 7 TIMES!!!! he finally got a perfect score this year, when he’s a senior!! i’m in 10th grade, and we have to take the PLAN test. it’s like a test to gauge how well you’re going to do on the SAT. it’s really stupid. i hate timed tests with a passion!!!!!! and there’s my comment for today, bye!!!

  83. What’s your username, Chanel-wa? I have to know! I promise I won’t bother you anymore if you tell me!! But if you don’t want to that’s alright. I don’t blame you.

    Sorry, i don’t want to give my identity away by telling what article I created. people there think I’m…older than I actually am. *cough cough* so…sorry, can’t tell you.

  90. Aaaaaahhhh! That is sooooooooo good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I love it! Great job! Why don’t you write the 4th midnighters? lol jk. but omg you should be a writer.

  94. hooray! i have encouraged a should-be future writer!

    and i can’t wait to read it!

    but now i like REALLY have to work on my art project though…it’s due on wednesday instead of monday for me since i missed a couple days of school, but it still needs a lot of work to live up to my perfectionistic standards.

  96. haha!!!! i have a 2 hour delay today!!! this is the eairliest i’ve ever been on the computer not at school!!! it’s 7:45 am!!! wow!!!! i’m kinda tired, but have LOTS of energy!!!!!! i’m psychotic in the morning!!! it’s sometimes worse in person!!! so be lucky you guys can’t hear me screaming cuz i’m bored!!!! or can you… hehe!! today will be fun. and tomorrow. and the next day. and ESPECIALLY the next day after that!!! (as in thursday) you guys really wouldn’t care, but i’ll be having the most fun i’ve ever had in my entire life!!!!!!!! i can’t wait!!!!!! bye!!! on to bug other people!!!

  97. SNOW DAY!!!!!

    HUZZAH!!!

    idk if html works here (or if i typed it right), but i’m giving it a shot!

    but i some weird dream where like it was a snow day, but everyone went to school anyway, and i was like “what the heck?!”

    TRACY!: what’s happening on thursday?
    i’m excited for the day after tomorrow, personally (wednesday).

  98. yay! it works! and i typed it right! foolio.

    snow days are wonderful.

    random: i just made crescent rolls! they are just easy enough for my baking/cooking-impaired mind to comprehend.
    i put cinnamon in them! lolz… :mrgreen:

  99. ok one more thing: yay! i inspired someone!

    i hope you got a snow day, too, serafina zane. but i’m scared you didn’t b/c you’re not on now.

    😥 i’m all alone!
    😀 but i have crescent rolls!

  104. It says there is going to be an Uglies movie on imdb, but they haven’t started production yet so ‘m not sure if they are or not.

    LUCKY!!!! I wish i could have a snow day!!!! Especially so early in the season…it’s not even winter yet!!!

  106. One time they like canceled school because it never snow where i am and they were like, “OMG THE ROADS ARE GOING TO FREEZE NO SCH0OL! NO SCHOOL!” It never snowed, the temperature was above 50 degrees f and i had a free day of no school.

  110. I’m sorry Lizzy-wa! I hope you feel better soon.

    please? I can’t survive w/o you for six whole days!

    My 1 year old sister is sick, too. I think she has the flu. She is doing better now, though. She isn’t laying on my mom’s shoulder sleeping, which is a good sign.

  111. Omg!!! I can’t believe in one day how many people are responding to scott’s blog entries!!! it used to be like 30 people and now there’s like over 100!!! And omg i am on like chapter 8 of midnighters and i love it so much!!!!!! ts awesome!!! im at the part where they set up to meet in the library after dess and melissa and rex help jessica in the blue time. its so good!!!!! and i keep laughing when malissa calls the “panther” physchokitty!!! i was sitting in english today at school and i almost burst out laughing!!! and lizzy-wa i hope you feel better!! and allie-wa i hope your sis feels better!!!

  112. Ok, i just finished Elsewhere. Had to wipe my face of many tears. Cried ALOT! But i was really good. I’m glad Liz got what she dreamed of.

  114. der·ring-do~brave adventurous deeds: boldness, or acts of great daring (literary)

    Sad…I had to look it up…

  119. Extras is the last one. But then again, so was Specials…

    I say there should be another one. I mean, might as well. It’salready not a trilogy. If that wasn’t too confusing…

    Sometimes I don’t make sense.

  123. i want to watch heroes, but always caught up with other stuff. And hi!im back!from doing fifty boring social studies projects every day, mumble mumble curse mumble mumble…ok, well, my life’s still boring! bye!!

  124. um, does anybody have the last name Lewis??
    i think i might know somebody here.
    strange stuff happens at 9:15….
    not even going to get into that.
    am i…….ALONE?! screams in the background.
    “We ran out of cookies! No!!”
    ok i’m going to check my email!

    good day!

  128. wow, i wasn’t on all afternoon and only one comment.

    where is everyone?!

    duct-tape! i suspect duct tape! Allie-wa…have you seen your mom lately?

    we get at least one, usually 2 snow days a year.

    my mom finished Extras! now she’s read pretty much every westerfeld book. what to force upon her next….

    i made fudge. it was good.

  132. oh boy. now to write a persuasive essay to congressmen about the farm bill..

    YESS IT FINALLY SNOWED!!
    now i can rejoice freely.

    hmm..me thinks it be time for scott-la to update again. 😕

  134. dang…that sucks, Laura-la. But maybe it would stick to the ground the next morning…but then again, what do I know? Not like I’ve ever had that problem.

    Creative Writing rocks. I don’t take the class at school, but during the summer there’s this fine arts camp thing i go to for creative writing…all day every day (except weekends) for three weeks. it’s fawesome.

  135. I have no homework. I finished it all in class. Perk of 7th grade: You can do your homework in class after lesson. Yeah. all i have to do is study math, and Lit.

  136. lucky you. I had so much math I couldn’t finish in class, plus a project that I need to finish that was due today, and social studies work.

  139. Hey Scott. Just wanted to let you know that my English teacher used the Uglies series as an example for prefixes. -making and say-la and such! it was awesome

  141. Congrats, Serafina! You got lucky 130! The person to comment after me gets very lucky 143. And don’t dare ask me what’s lucky about 143. You should know.

  143. Congrats Scott-la!!

    Ok, so I am working my way though all of Scott-la’s books and I’m currently on Peeps soooo good!! 😆 But sometimes I can do without the gross info on parasites. I have 2 cats. Now I have this thing going through my mind. Does my cat have this wierd parasite? One of my cats is really skinny and they checked for parasites but they could not find any but did they check that one. This is a horrible cycle!!!

  145. hehe. I keep thinking about how…silly the librarians are at my school. They are supposed to monitor all the computers. But I spent almost the whole class period in science while we were supposed to be doing research on other things…such as here, the HQ, fanlib, the wiki (click my name), Wikipedia (reading things they don’t want me to read…)

    I sounded like really stupid in my last comment. I sounded like a math geek. sorta. But that’s not true…I was exhilarated today b/c I actually understood what my teacher was talking about when she said, “You plug the y or x-value equation into the first line’s equation to get the x or y-value, to estimate your linear system’s point of intersection.” That’s a big achievement.

    Serafina: If I read any of the books on your list my mom would kill me (well, besides Midnighters, and she’s not even sure about those.) *sigh* She’s not too fond of faeries or demons…or any fantasy books at all.

  149. omg midnighters is so good!!!!!!! Now im at the part where Jonathan comes to her house during midnight. I luv it!!!!!!!! im so glad my friend gave it to me for my b-day!!!!!!!!!! yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!!!!!

  150. Oh and one more thing. When their in the museum or whatever its called, and then Dess says’How many seconds are ina day’ or something like that, the she says ‘twenty FOUR hours in a day.’ and then all this other stuff. Shouldnt it be TWENTY FIVE?????? sorry, just wondering.

  152. wait a minute–did they say FINALE??? obviously, trilogy now means five. ever read frindle?? well, in that, nick changes the name of pen to frindle, so now (after scott-la writes another midnighters book…hint hint) i’ll change “trilogy” to five books…of course, first midinghters has to fit the bill, too…
    my older sis got a snow day a couple days ago, my other older sis got a 2 hour delay…we pretty much got a snow day, too, tho my mom didn’t intend it to be like that…
    we live like on this really high hill, and we have like a really long driveway, and we shoveled it…TWICE!!! the first time, there was like two inches of snow (our plow doesn’t plow unless it’s three inches 😡 ) so we shoveled the entire driveway, then it snowed AGAIN!! it was very light, but it was nasty, cause someone had driven on our driveway, and what do you know?? it turned to ice!! we were trying to chip at it, but eventually gave up, salted the driveway, and let it sit overnight. then we got the rest of the day off, cause our backs were like really sore.
    snow stinks on the driveway.
    but, u know how we live on a hill?? well, it’s awesome 4 sledding!! today, it was perfect to sled, so we went down like a million times…but, cause it snowed so early, the trees still had leaves on them, so there were like as many leaves as there was snow…it was bubbly.
    i have this strange bump under my ear…*sniff sniff* dunno what it is…
    right now i have a cinderella shirt on, cause i’m cool that way. yeah.
    my uncle’s coming home for christmas!!! yay!!! i dont remember the last time i saw him…maybe not since we took our cross-country trip and stopped to see him…he’s cool, tho. we always play hide and seek with him…he sometimes jumps out at the ‘it’ and scares them half to death!! i think he’s coming home either the 21 or the 23…he’s staying 2 weeks!! it would rock either way, cuz he’d be home 4 my b-day either way…it’s the 23!! i was brought home on christmas day…sigh. happy endings, happy endings…
    well, this is a bogusly long post…
    WRITE MORE, SCOTT-LA!! WRITE MORE!!
    -The Inconquerable Mathematician, Riderchilde-wa (said w/a nifty olde english accent!!) :mrgreen:

  154. Well, this is my life. Hopin ill get a boyfriend, drinken cranberry juice, and typing on the computer, yep, thats me. yep, im a bundle of fun, well my friend is saying stuff about me and i feel really poopish so im gonna drink cranberry and sing.

  156. I love cranberry juice. It’s the only juice I drink. I also like mixing it w/ sprite…it’s the closest thing I’ll get to champagne til I’m 21…that’s the legal drinking age, right?

    omg there are like no guys at my school…they are all really ugly except for the few really hot ones that are jerks.

    It’s sorta sad when a geeky guy asks out a cheerleader…especially by email when she can and will forward it to all her friends. I feel pity for him. Even if he did tell me to “shut the hell up” yesterday. ’cause he’s antisocial like that.

  157. i don’t like cranberry juice.

    and the boy to girl to idiot ratio in my school is way skewed. there’s millions of idiots, then a lot of girls, and then like 10 non-idiot guys, most of whom are just friends material.

    that is sad. always save humiliation for in person. but how’d he get her email?

    yes Allie-wa. 21 is the drinking age. 18 voting. 16 to get your permit (at least here) 18 to be a legal adult and get arrested and all that crap.

  158. i am trying to write a short story about a new generation of midnighters. the main character is the child of rex and melissa. i need to come up with a name for it as well as a gender.

    the guy names that i have are:
    Adian- help, little fire
    Aland- bright as the sun
    Alexander- protector of mankind
    Durriken- fortune telling
    Latimer- interoreter
    Sterne- seriuos minded
    Heller- sun
    Argus- bright, watchful
    Nestor- travler, wisdom
    Theron- hunter
    Ala- defending men
    Alpha- first letter of the greek alphabet

    Some of the girl names are:
    Dawn- dawn
    Lainey-sun ray
    Zelene-sunshine
    Jarvinia- keen intelligence
    Jenell- knowledge, understanding
    Marlene- child of the light, bitter
    Aglaia- wisdom, glory
    Alcina- strongminded
    Calypso- concealor
    Eleni- light or torch
    Elina- pure, intelligent
    Layna- light, truth
    Neoma- new moon
    Pandora- taltented one
    Selene/Selena- the moon
    Sybley- prophetes
    Sibyl/Sybil- wise, prophetic
    Csilla- torch, birght light
    Cybil-female prophet
    Eldora- gift of the sun
    Electra- shining
    Elysia- struck by lightning
    Horatia & Horacia- hour, time
    Ilona- torch, bright light
    Kalapso- concealer

    the kids talent is a mindcasting- seer.

    its friends are a daughter of jonathan and jessica. she is a flying flame bringer and her name is Elysia Ilona Electra Martinez.

    the other friend is a son of dess and a person who has a language talent. his name is Durriken Theron Latimer Buffalo.

    Help me pick out a name and i will post the whole story.(sorry this post is so long 🙂 )

  159. so many names in one. (like Durriken Theron Latimer Buffalo)

    hmmm…i’d say go with a sort of simpleish one, because as a story it’d be set in sort of modern-day world, so it’s kind of wierd to have anything too odd.

    i votes Pandora. i have a character named Pandora. also breaks neatly into nicknames Pan or Dora.

    though i must also mention i like Elysia (and the meaning! mind if i totally get inspired by that and steal it? where’d u get these names anyway)
    and Kalapso, esp as Kala.
    and Zelene. i luvs names with Zs in them.

  161. i’ll try—what site do u use?

    i’m also a fan of the random name generator—that’s where i’ve gotten some of my favorites, and is useful because it gives both first and last names.
    here, i’ll try linking
    http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm

    i’m in name-land right now b/c i’m working on a short story and the narrator still has no name.
    because her boyfriend stole it….
    trying to find one that fits, which is hard.

  162. Wow i just erased my whole short story. And I’m starting again. From scratch. And in 1st person instead of 3rd. cause i started it last year and it sorta um, yeah…sucked. so…a fresh start!

    Now I think I’m gonna start hyperventilating from the emptiness.

  164. Well i have a story and im realizing that it doesnt have a point so im going to start another one but i need help. I want to make it more sci fi or mysery and i don’t know what to do.

  166. okay. when in doubt—werewolves.
    or murder
    or zombies
    or ninjas
    or oracles in Reyjavick having nightmares about the dead—hey wait that’s mine! none of you steal it.

    word of advice. starting anew is good, but backing up old versions is better.

    i haven’t gotten to write in FOREVER (called by some as last sunday). stupid other things eating my time.

  168. Thanks for the tips. I wont steal your idea. I just need to start anew (as you said shall i say “”) I will have to think about it.

  169. Ok, i got a perfect idea, i combined werewolves and murder. Ok, read this, Love Stalks (tittle)

    One day a young girl falls in love. She’s 14 and she is sure its love, but when her boyfriend becomes rabid and kills her, everyone is stirred in the commotion. There is then an investigation to find out how she died, but there is only a group of people who know.

    Oh ya, hes a werewolf, ya thats right.

  174. i think she was talking about names. and that’s pretty cool. be kind of awkward if you’re calling them Calypso. like, dancing and all. Could go with Caly, i guess. said like Cali, you know.
    i don’t know. i still like Pandora.

    doesn’t Rex spell Greene with the extra e? Greene vs. Green.

    see? combine werewolves zombies murder ninjas romance and the result is ALWAYS GOOD. even if it’s so bad it’s good.
    Love Stalks is a pretty good title—and your premise is good too.

  176. OKay I’ve been creating a name fot r the fith book of UGLIES!!!
    The UKNOWNS it could be about some people that acually live RUSTY style i NEED impoot!!
    Crap TYPO and i’ve to go.

  177. Okay maybe im just to lazy does it really matter?

    Hey who here is Conceited? raise you hand

    When you want to say something raise your hand an put it over your mouth (ROLF)
    Im so full of Poo!!!

  179. scott, this post has been up since the 2nd. it is the 7th, post again!

    P.S. i found out something pretty fool that is in Extras. go to my blog to see it.

  182. is Extras really the last book? i just finished it yesterday, and if its the last book, thats so sad-making. 🙁 so much more could be done with the info given in Extras! i want more.

    ~marji-wa

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