Princess Bookie's Contest Craze is underway and Mini-Challenge 3 is up! Our mission? Stop moaning about a sequel to our favorite book and write it ourselves! Or at least, the synopsis of the sequel. She wants us to work for it people (though the contest itself is brought to us by
Shanyn of Chick Loves Lit) and to research if a sequel is already in the outing (such as
Pegsus by Robin McKinley, which I want to read more of, actually
does have a sequel coming out. At some point. Hopefully soon.) 'cause that's just cheating otherwise.
My book? Well it was actually a fairly hard choice! I first thought I'd want one for
Mara, Daughter of the Nile, but I realized what would it be about? Mara ends up happy, Sheftu ends up (mostly) retired, and Thutmose III is in charge.
So then I thought, well what about
Seven Daughters, Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen and Bhahija Lovejoy? I definitely want to know what happens with Buran and Mahmud! What are their children like? What sort of changes does Buran try to make happen? Except, Buran's story was so good and it finished in a way that made me feel satisfied. Anything more will seem like too much.
I said to myself this time, 'Self! This is ridiculous! 1600 books! You've likely read over 2500 in your lifetime!
Something has to give!' So I contemplated my books for a long while, discarding dozens of them because I felt they were 'finished' and needed nothing more. Finally,
finally, I came upon a book I wanted to know more about, that didn't have a sequel and would never have one (since the author, god rest her soul, died in 2005):
The Girl With Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts.
Some of you may have heard me endlessly talk about how much I love this book. Its one of the few books I vividly remember re-reading dozens of times because the main character, Katie, made me feel not so weird. And what luck but its being reprinted for 2011!!
I already have it pre-ordered, cause I only have three other copies, surely I need a fourth right?
Original Synopsis (from Amazon): Katie, who has supernatural powers, attempts to start a new life in another town with hermother. The attempt succeeds until Mr. Cooper asks Katie too many questions.
My Better Synopsis of the Original: Katie, a ten year old girl recently moved in with her mother and her mother's boyfriend, has a secret. A secret that scared her grandmother, makes her mother uneasy and her mother's boyfriend frustrated.
Faced with endless days in summer with no friends, few books and boredom, Katie begins a friendship with a lady neighbor, teaches one of the bullying neighbors a lesson about underestimating kids and along the way may just find out the truth about the extraordinary powers she has.
My Sequel (spoilers for the original, which you should have read, because its older than
me and its a wonderful book besides. have you read it yet? no? GO READ IT)
Six years after accepting Mr. Cooper's offer to study at the Institute of Psychic Phenomena, Katie, Kerrie, Dale and Eric return to their homes and public school. But for Katie, who knows no one and was always the outsider, things couldn't go worse.
The first day of school she sets off the fire alarms, tips her teacher's chair backwards too far and spills milk all over the Principle's shoes. With no idea where her old friend Jackson Jones has gotten to, her mother treating her like she's made of glass and the other kids from the Institute already settled into their daily lives, Katie turns to the one person who always understood her best--Mrs. Michaelmas. Maybe together they'll be able to figure out what's happening and how to fix things.
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I really kind of suck at summaries! -.-;; Anyhow the picture above is actually what the new reprint edition will look like, just doubled and flipped (and a '2' added). I like it! The book will be 31 years old when the reprint hits the bookstores!
So what book do you want a sequel to?
Find out how it all began...
