Darklings try to spread midnight over an entire day (Oct 31)

The Midnighters series is set in a small Oklahoma town where these few special teens can experience a hidden hour at the end of every day. At midnight clocks stop and everyone freezes, everyone except these few teens …and the dark creatures that live in the secret hour! Duh duh duuuuh!!

Well, in the third book, midnight starts to break out at other times during the day, and it will push out more and more until it breaks out completely on Samhain (Halloween for you moderns) and the darklings are free to feast on the human scum!!

(PS--I have like zero idea why this series by Scott Westerfeld that hasn’t become very popular! It’s super imaginative and gripping, and this is the best conclusion to a series EVAH!)

How to Commemorate

• Stay up till midnight.
• Wear blue (the more, the better).
• Use tridecalogisms (13-letter words) in casual conversation. (Bonus points for using 3 at a time. My fav combo is lethargically anticlimactic nefariousness, but you can find more at Dess’s page.)

Works Cited   

Blue Noon (Midnighters #3)

Amazon    Barnes & Noble    Public Libraries

Tally and Shay’s 16th Birthday (Sept 9)

Tally and Shay became friends shortly before their 16^th birthdays (on Sept 9th) when they were supposed to have mandatory cosmetic surgery to make them Pretty and afterward live in New Pretty Town and have a life of parties and fun and glamour.  Instead, Shay runs away to Smoke, a haven for people who refuse to believe such concepts of beauty.  Tally follows Shay shortly after but with… mixed motives.

How to Commemorate:

• Sneak into a party.
• Hoverboard (Ok…skateboard).
• Read a fashion magazine.
• Traditional food: SpagBol (Spaghetti Bolognese)

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Works Cited

Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld.

Amazon         Barnes & Noble        Public Libraries

Darklings try to spread midnight over an entire day (Oct 31)

The Midnighters series is set in a small Oklahoma town where these few special teens can experience a hidden hour at the end of every day. At midnight clocks stop and everyone freezes, everyone except these few teens …and the dark creatures that live in the secret hour! Duh duh duuuuh!!

 

Well, in the third book, midnight starts to break out at other times during the day, and it will push out more and more until it breaks through completely on Samhain (Halloween for you moderns) and the darklings are free to feast on the human scum!!

(PS--I have like zero idea why this series by Scott Westerfeld that hasn’t become wildly popular! It’s super imaginative and gripping, and this is the best conclusion to a series EVAH!)

How to Commemorate

• Stay up till midnight.
• Wear blue (the more, the better).
• Use tridecalogisms (13-letter words) in casual conversation. (Bonus points for using 3 at a time. My fav combo is lethargically anticlimactic nefariousness, but you can find more at Dess’s page.)

Works Cited    

Blue Noon (Midnighters #3)

Amazon         Barnes & Noble        Public Libraries

Tally and Shay’s 16th Birthday (Sept 9)

Tally and Shay became friends shortly before their 16^th birthdays when they were supposed to have mandatory cosmetic surgery to make them Pretty and afterward live in New Pretty Town and have a life of parties and fun and glamour.  Instead, Shay runs away to Smoke, a haven for people who refuse to believe such concepts of beauty.  Tally follows Shay shortly after but with… mixed motives.

How to Commemorate:

• Sneak into a party.
• Hoverboard (Ok…skateboard.)
• Read a fashion magazine.
• Traditional food: SpagBol (spaghetti Bolognese)

Works Cited

Uglies, by Scot Westerfeld.

Amazon         Barnes & Noble        Worldcat