<![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I have never read this.....I now I MUST!

Haystacks

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I remember some on climbing someone like a tree! I can not wait to re-read this book

ddb

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> My mom bought this book for me when I was in middle school...Wonder if she was trying to tell me something.

jamiecatw

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Boarding school, elaborate use of foreign language, shady sexy past, dinner parties, death in the woods... now I see what Donna Tartt read growing up.

djdreilinger

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I'm SO glad I'm not the only person who fondly remembers BookIt! And I vote for "Harriet The Spy" for the next installment. She totally made me wish that I lived on the Upper East Side, and that I had interesting neighbors I could spy on rather than the boring suburbanites I was surrounded with.

greyeminence

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I think I missed this book. Too busy reading The Black Stallion.

Tulipsaki

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @alliedee: Oh, wow, Noah Baumbach would be perfect for this, if this project is still on

LaPretentieuse

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @Dobey319: I adored "Secrets of the Shopping Mall" when I was in middle school. Really, I loved most of Richard Peck's teen books. "Princess Ashley" anyone?'

Also, I think the psychic twin book everyone was trying to figure out last time was called "Double Trouble" if anyone is still reading this thread. It was fantastic. Or at least I remember it that way.

scribbles

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Could it be??? [movies.nytimes.com]

I vote for the Girl Who Owned a City next. That was my favorite when I was little although I'm now kind of horrified, having found out that according to Wikipedia it was apparently a child's first guide to Ayn Rand.

Shudder.

alliedee

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Oh I LOVED Battle Royale. One of the only movies ex and I agreed on. Howevs, that is kids who have to kill each OTHER off, if I remember correctly. In Japan.

I was pretty focused on the killing each other off thing in general at that moment.

Entonces is ironing your dumb ass

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @JessicaLovejoy: Haha, there IS a J-horror version of the basic premise -- parents send awful teenage kids off to be offed -- called "Battle Royale" -- it's great! And Grounding of Group 6 is now on my Amazon Wish List. Thank you!

LaPretentieuse

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I thought parents simply abandoned their children at shopping malls like "Secrets of the Shopping Mall".

As a twelve year old, I was pissed that my parents never thought of doing this.

dobey319

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I didn't know anyone else had ever read this book. So much love for the Jezebels right now. :D

We Don't Live in the 60s

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I HEART THIS BOOK- and shameful (not really) secret? I am 28 and still read it! sigh, i always love jezebel but especially on days when there are posts like this.

I will never give up my copy of this book.

Philthyist

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> So, maybe 6-7 years ago, Wendy "Forest Gump" Finerman had "Group 6" set up at Fine Line. They even had Noah "Margot at the Wedding" Baumbach draft a treatment. Nicole Kidman could have played Ludi!

benjie65

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @flackette: I have so many hologram buttons in a box somewhere. Just turn it, and the book opens! Amazing!

hildegaard

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Are you fucking kidding me?

My friend has a copy of Facing It by the same author, and I shit you not, just this past Monday I picked it up for the first time and read the back cover and we joked about what The Grounding of Group 6 might have been all about, because neither of us had seen or read it.

Now that's servicey. Thanks Jez.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I'm so happy right now. I LOVED this book! And for years I've never met anyone else who read it. At last I've found my people. And how can I get a copy of this again? I must reread it immediately.

myblueheaven

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> So do you guys have to re-read these for the reviews? ... Where do I sign up for that job?

Mav

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> And Marigold told her mom about sleeping with mom's boyfriend by ASKING FOR MONEY FOR AN ABORTION. I was completely flabbergasted when I read that, at age 10.

STILL a little shocked by that, come to think of it.

LookyLoo

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @lkhorgan: Oh my god, I was totally into those.

Why is it that YA lit stays with people so strongly?

A good modern edition to the YA canon: Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

SF_iris

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @followthatcab: You just made my day!

I.Can. Haz.Black.Editors?

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @hortense: ANYTHING by Judy Blume. Deenie? Peter and Fudge? Sheila the Great? Are you kidding?

I always wonder whether Peter and Fudge still fight as adults.

Yes, reviews, please.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @J.D.Regent: Several. However, don't miss the upcoming Prince Caspian, because Ben Barnes is SMOKING hot. I didn't care what the prince looked like back in the day, after all, it was Peter that was going to have to fight Miraz. I have changed.

Also, apologies. Clearly some of you are talking about Ramona Q.; I believe there is another Ramona upthread about whom I remain confused.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @Make It Work: I know, right? And who would have thought Jim from CAMG was emotionally abusive? I just thought he was a regular artist, like some of the ones I grew up with in Woodstock. (Which would explain a great deal, but I digress.)

And Zeeney -- from Long Secret -- an alkie? I thought she was just crazy. Waaay tamer than anything you'd ever see in the Bushnell Administration, IMO.

I read some kinky stuff (not from Scholastic, of course, although I'm sure there was a great deal of subtext I missed as a sheltered child; I thought you all were talking about Ramona Quimby) -- that "golden Eve" girl, for one -- I think it's out of print; she was, like, sex as evil and Satanic (I think some really repressed nerd guy, one like yesterady's trolls, wrote it) -- but do the "Group 6" parents even get prosecuted at the end?

Ah, 'tis the season to reminisce.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> ZOMG, this sounds better than Gossip Girl. And, coming from me, that is high praise indeed.

designmartini

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I just LOVED this book! I read it over and over again! I think I might still have it, I kept it around for years... must go check the bookcase. The one YA book I know I still have is "I Stay Near You" by ME Kerr. Love that book.
(I never thought Nat and Ludi were inappropriate, either, back when I first read it! But that was back in the day when Sting was singing "Don't Stand So Close To Me." All those little crushes seemed so cute and fun until stoopid Mary Kay Letourneau went and ruined it all!)


littlegoodytwoshoes

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> This book was so great, and, for some reason, it's stuck in my head for years. There's some part when they're all trying to escape in the van and Sarah can't drive because she doens't know stick, so weird Ludi (wtf kind of name is that, anyway?) has to take the wheel. I think I insisted on learning to drive stick partially so I wouldn't get stuck in that situation.

Megan McCarthy

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Oh dear sweet Jesus, turns out my local library system has this book, so I placed a hold immediately. I'm going to read it while taking a bubble bath and drinking a glass of wine.

caffeinequeen

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> When I was young, I was reading some Judy Blume book and I got to the word "goy" so I asked my dad what it meant. He and my mother immediately made a rule that I wasn't allowed to read any more Judy Blume. For the longest time I thought it was a sexual term. I remember being disappointed when I found out what it actually was. Still don't understand why that word was so bad. My parents were puritans though...

DumbelinaTheDaft

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @the historian: "we must, we must, we MUST INCREASE our BUSTS!" This is the reason i have 36 DDD. Yes, DDD.

Trashtastic

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @flackette: there's a reason why that website is called "smothering.com" in a lot of online parenting communities!

yamish

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @hatepaperdoll: *sighs wistfully* oh yes, yes i do. and this is why jezebel and all you commenters are my crack. MUAH

Trashtastic

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Wow, hadn't read this but did read Julian Thompson's A Band of Angels, which, as I recall included *gasp* inter-racial teenage sex. All I remember was some excessive details of how their thighs felt pressed against each other....or something...

LitiGrrl30

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @FattyCatty: Hahaha, my mom laughed when I asked her about it too.

LessThanZero

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Oh. Em. Gee. I read this when I was about 8 and thought it was the best book on earth. Am now 28 and am inordinately pleased that Jezebel has brought this book back to my attention. Awesomeness squared, miladies...

Also, books like this are why I became a librarian. Because I found out early that even books that are tripe are actually secretly awesome.

warmaiden

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Also, in sixth grade we had to write letters to authors. I got Beverly Cleary (although I will confess to not liking Ramona very much). She sent us a handwritten note back, which I thought was sweet.

flackette is frustrated

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> OMG I have a new brainless Christmas break book to read along with my collection of Judy Blume and Baby-Sitters Club sitting on my bookshelf at home. LOVE this feature, way to go, guys! Tangential: did anybody ever read Some Day I'll Laugh About This?

LessThanZero

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @layladylan:

I did ask my mother about it, not just because of "Margret," but because my 5th grade "You and Your Changing Body" filmstrip was so old, it was in that, too. My mother laughed for 10 minutes when I asked her about it.

FattyCatty

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @lady-zorro: When I saw the Book-It tent at the National Book Festival my friend and I rushed up to the minders all gushy about our personal pan pizzas and hologram buttons. I think they thought we were a little unbalanced.

But you should have seen me when I got to the Reading Rainbow display!

flackette is frustrated

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> So I was googling up the Ramona pancake plotline because I had forgotten it, and ran across a parenting message board wherein they are all angry that Beverly Cleary did not push breastfeeding more strongly.

Oh for cripe's sake people.

[www.mothering.com]

flackette is frustrated

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I loved Julian Thompson books! All the guys were so lanky and lean.

mythroathurts

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @followthatcab: I used to love how Claudia's stuff all matched, like she'd have parrot earrings and a tropical belt and stuff.

mocena

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> i've actually just taken a course on young adult literature. The bad parents that i found in these stories all seem to be alcoholics.

warriorette

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I was so afraid that if I misbehaved my parents would ship me off to this school. I was seriously a very, very good girl. Until I hit 18 and realized that they could no longer ship me off to school.

Captain_Morgan

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @the historian: Oh yeah, I was totally confused and horrified by the belt. I didn't ask my mom what it was, though, because she frowned on Judy Blume and I did not want her to confiscate the book!

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Hey, looks like my account got approved! I read a lot of Tamora Pierce as a child. Anyone--?

Also, anyone seen [claudiasroom.blogspot.com] ? It goes through the Babysitters Club books & talks about their outfits!

followthatcab

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @Knucklehead Babylon: I was more into The Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike myself.

Vampire Diaries were a close second though.

AFever

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> This feature is my favorite ever. EVER.

LilaFowler

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Oh man you've got to do "The Vampire Diaries" by LJ Smith (I think). As a male 'young adult' reader I had no idea those were for young ladies.

Knucklehead Babylon

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Bridge to Terabithia!!! I've totally blocked out that they made some horrible movie out of it.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @layladylan: Well thank god when I got mine, the whole belt and maxi pads had dissappeared. the pads were still there, which I learn really quickly to hate. Thank god for tampons!
@ForeverBlueGirl: oh god SVH, we waiting anxiously every month those..especially the special editions. Elizabeth and Jessica...ahh the memories


the historian

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> This genre was SO GOOD, for a kid that loved pretty much anything sordid. I used to flip back to the cover from time to time to remind me what everyone looked like.

thebomb

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @TexMexChia: Or "Then Again, Maybe I Won't".

Or anything Judy Blume, really.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @mindbling: Up A LONG Road Slowly. My bad.

mindbling

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I nominate Up A Road Slowly for review. One of my all time fav YA reads.

mindbling

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I too thought I was the only one who knew of this classic. This was the "it" book when I was in 6th grade. We used to pass it around and re-read the parts when the kids were having sex with each other. Oh, those innocent times...

biglar07

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @Kataluna: OMG I used to ask Santa for PURPLE EYES so I could secretly be a unicorn. I'm still obsessed. The animated film too.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @hortense: or 'just as long as we're together.'

TexMexChia

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @the historian: Sadly, I already had mine by the time I read "Margaret." I remember thinking "poor thing, you do not know what you are in for."

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @redscorpse: The Last Unicorn... ohmygod, that movie still freaks me out. "The Red Buuulllll...." (maybe this is why I hate redbull, hmmm.)

elitza

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @redscorpse: Just picked up the Last Unicorn at a yard sale...my three year old loves it...

Kataluna

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> So...when do we get Sweet Valley High? I got in SO much trouble for smuggling that in the house after a a trip to the used book store with my (only) Catholic friend. It was so scandalous when the dude untied the girl's red bikini underwater! Pool party gone sexy!

ForeverBlueGirl

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @lady-zorro: I always won LOADS of pizzas. Unfortunately, my family was anti-fast-food. So I never actually ... ate any of them. Per se.

jammiriffic

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @jetztinberlin: ohhh I forgot about flowers in the attice...the movie was horrible
@layladylan: @cocoesq: Thanks! I also remember wanting my period so bad after I read that book...of course now I cannot wait for menopause.


the historian

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @collegecallgirl: or the last unicorn or the dark crystal or captain eo (i wish that was on DVD).

redscorpse

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I love love love loved this book! I have to find it for my nieces...

Kataluna

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @the historian: "We must increase our busts." Hilarious. @hortense: Blubber was probably my favorite. Please, a Blubber review.

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @the historian: That would be "I must, I must, I must increase my bust!" I considered trying it, but I was already the bustiest 6th grader and did not want an increase.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> 1) I completely and instantaneously remember the pancakes!!!
2) Am I a total perv if I mention Flowers in the Attic?

jetztinberlin

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> This is my new favorite feature as well. Also, I KNOW! How is it that as a kid, you're totally able to let all these weird name-dropping things slide by - and why do they put them in YA books? It's totally '80s. Also, I think Lohan is using this cover as her current fashion inspiration.

olivia2.0

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @the historian: It's: I must, I must, I must increase my bust."

cocoesq

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @the historian: :"I must, I must, increase my bust"

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I read this book in 6th grade and found myself wistfully longing for my folks to conspire to kill me so I could go hang out with wayward youth in the woods and drink kir.

Great read at 11. Crap, still a cracking good read at my more mature phase of arrested development.

Twaddle

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I wish I read this when I was a kid! Maybe then I would have learned to masturbate earlier.

mocena

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @hortense: Or "God are you there, it's me Margaret" What did they chant...We must, we must, we must increase our breasts? something like that.

the historian

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> The Cat Ate My Gymsuit was the best! I must have read that 20 times.

This book, however, is insane - how did I never read it??

washionfore

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @FattyCatty: Me either!! It seemed completely fine and normal and great.

Marigold's family, though, did mildly creep me out.

elitza

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @the historian: Or Blubber.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Why have I never heard of this book before?! I am going right out after work today and buying a copy.

cocoesq

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Definitely not included in my monthly Scholastic reader catalog.

TakeBackWhatYouSaidAboutThor

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I don't know this book and I was at the right age to read it.
When are you going to review Judy Bloom's Forever? Now there's a book we all read over and over and over....


the historian

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I'm totally starting a book group.

whoneedslight

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @taylay: I just snorfed my water!!! :)

I LOVED this book, and I really thought I was the only person who ever read it. And believed it could happen. I grew up terrified of boarding school!

And I totally never thought about Nat and Ludi being inappropriate.

FattyCatty

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> OMFG! I totally forgot about this book. Seeing that cover brought it right back.

I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> i remember the pancake "slashing!" They "oozed."

i was a book-it child - will love this feature.

now where is my personal pan pizza?

lady-zorro

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> You know who's Mom was a bitch? Elsie's mom from Seventeen and In Between. Anyone else read that?

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I'm so sad I missed this one. This feature is going to give me my winter break reading list. Screw "The Nine," I'm reading some YA fiction!

AFever

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Awesome. Frantic Googling/Ebaying "The Grounding of Group 6" has begun.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Jesus, they never had books like this when I was a kid (I know it came out in '83, but by that time I was way past kid books) - and speaking of which, I remember NO sex in any of the YA books I read. I mean, DAYUM!

Hamsterpants

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I was JUST referencing Ramona's mom's undone pancakes the other day, along the lines of, "so your dad never actually hit you guys, but he was like a Ramona's mom's pancakes kind of angry?"

PS: Abenaki is an Indian tribe in Vermont that keeps trying to gain legitmacy and can't.

the.bleach

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @hortense: Haha! Yes, that would piss a guy off for sure.

I still think of NOSMO KING sometimes when I see those signs.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I remember being 8 years old reading this book and trying to hide it from my Mom because of the s-e-x.

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @layladylan: He may have been pissed that Ramona had replaced his cigarettes with rolled up "NOSMO KING" notes.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I want to read this book RIGHT NOW.

RosemaryF

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> All of the posts relating to this subject are my absolute FAVORITES.

AlisonAshleigh

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> @elitza: Me too!

Also, I haven't thought of this book since I was 9, and read it, and felt so righteously annoyed at the emptiness of ALL THE ADULTS IN THE WORLD.

Westcoastsally

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> In defense of Mr. Quimby, I must say that the pancake-slicing incident seems fairly benign in comparison to the rest.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> i'm glad my parents never heard of that school. they would have sold all my shit at a garage sale and then used the profits to send me there.

taylay

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> That feeling up excerpt sounds like it's being narrated by Joey from Blossom.

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> Yay!!! LOVE THIS FEATURE, great review.

The bad parent trope of the eighties is SO CRUCIAL. It's totally a Kramer v. Kramer, post-nuclear family anxiety thing. Now we all just want to get gay married and it's all family values and plagiary's not that big a deal with the internet. I guess Harry Potter somehow reflects the apocalyptic fears of the current age but I never read it so I wouldn't know.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> How come I have never heard of any of these books? They just don't make enough fucked-up shit for kids anymore. I think that whenever I watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, too.

collegecallgirl

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> (It amazes me that this book never got made into a film.)

Someone forward this to a Japanese studio exec! They would so get on this.

JessicaLovejoy: Heart of Dykeness

]]> <![CDATA['The Grounding Of Group 6': Have Fun At School Kids, And Don't Forget To Die]]> I thought I was the only person in the world who read this.

Marigold's parents had an "open relationship," correct? Damn, I really need to re-read this.... wow. Mind blown. Happy camper.

elitza

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