Movie Review
on Page 3
Interview with Sarah
Weeks on Page 2
The Arrow
March
Book Recommendation:
The Shadow
Queen
Volume 3
1500 Volunteer Parkway, Brentwood, TN, 37027
By: Frank Moser
As spring break approaches, many are
starting to think about their vacations and
travels. In this article, I will be discussing
some of the most expensive vacations.
1.
Triple Creek Ranch, Darby Montana
Triple Creek Ranch, or “A Montana
Hideaway” as started on triplecreekranch.com, is without a doubt, a luxurious home away from home. With one
bedroom cabins starting at $1,050 per
night, this vacation is up there in the price,
but with the laundry list of amenities including world class cuisine, the pristine location in the Bitterroot Mountain Range,
and adventures such as snowmobile tours,
horseback riding, and whitewater rafting,
the hefty cost might be worth it.
2. Deerfield Estate, Herber City, Utah
This $15 million house is one of the most
luxury mansions to stay in. Located in the
skiing epicenter of Park City, this mansion
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is any skier’s dream. This multi-level house
overlooks the mountains of Deer Valley,
and Park City, as well as the private gondola located within the estate. The mansion
also has a pool, elevator, and pool located
within the 15,000 square foot house.
The Shadow Queen is an epic
retelling of Snow White by C. J. Redwine. Follow Lorelei, as she tries to defeat Irina, the enchantress who killed
most of her family. Irina uses poison apples to make people do whatever she
wants, and she is trying to find a heart to
replace her’s, which is capable of doing
extreme magic. Meanwhile, Kol, is trying
to bribe Irina into saving his kingdom, but
she does some magic on him instead. This
novel is a perfect young adult fantasy, and
should be read by any reading maniac.
Do you mourn the
death's of fictional characters?
By Taylor Wood
Hello readers! For this
week’s issue, I will be exploring the emotional attachment of of the
students here to fictional
characters. I have gathered the votes from a
wide variety of students
and here are the results.
Yes: 62%
No: 38%
The numbers for this
poll are interesting set.
However, i suspected that
most of the students
would be MAD enough
to create a strong connection with a non existent
Irish You a Happy St. Patrick's Day!
By: Annika Bhargava and Sonali
Lal
Q: Why don't you iron 4-Leaf clovers?
A: Because you don't want to press your luck.
Q: Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun?
A: Because they're always a little short.
A mom texts, "Hi Son! What does IDK, LY, & TTYL mean?"
He texts back, "I Don't Know, Love You, & Talk To You Later."
The mom texts him, "It's ok, don't worry about it. I'll ask your
sister, love you too."
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being( subtle reference to all for this issue, see you
picture.) For the 38% next survey.
who do not, you need to
read more books. That's
Irish You a Happy St. Patrick's Day! (continued)
Q: Can February March?
A: No, but April May.
My mother taught me about time travel
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the
middle of next week!”
Q: Why did the school kids eat their homework?
A: Because their teacher told them it was a piece of cake.
Teacher: "Which book has helped you the most in your life?"
Student: "My father's check book!"
continued
By: Annika Bhargava and Sonali
Lal
Q: When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato?
A: When it's a French fry!
Customer: There is a fly swimming in my soup.
Waiter: What do you expect me to do, call a lifeguard?
Q: Why did St. Patrick drive all the leprechauns out of Ireland?
A: He couldn't afford a plane ticket!
If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
then lefties are the only ones in their right mind.
Q: How do trees access the internet?
A: They log in.
Teacher: "What is the chemical formula for water?"
Student: "HIJKLMNO."
Teacher: "What are you talking about?"
Student: "Yesterday you said it's H to O!"
Q: What happens once in a minute and twice in a moment but
never in a decade?
A: The letter "m."
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Volume 3
The Arrow
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Interview with Sarah Weeks
By: Srinidhi Sridharan and
Kayla Jordan
Q: One of your books, So B. It, has
been made into a movie. How much
control did you have over the script
and content?
A: I think I was given more control of
the script and content than most
authors usually are. I was very very
lucky that the screenwriter, Gary
Williams, wanted me to be apart of the
process, so we spent a lot of time talking on the phone, and then we were on
the set together, sometimes doing
rewrites right, like, when the scene was
happening.
Q: Another one of your books, Pie, is
centered around a pie-baking contest.
What's your favorite type of pie?
A: You know, I’ve gotten in trouble for
answering that question, because I
think the last time someone asked I
said it was blueberry and he said ‘Oh,
but you’re online saying it’s cherry.’ So
now I just have to go completely on
record saying that I like pretty much
all kinds of pie except for banana
cream pie, which I think is disgusting,
because the bananas turn brown.
Q: How long ago was it that you completed your first full-length manuscript
(either published or unpublished)?
A: My first completed manuscript was
like thirty years ago.
want, you know, cause she’ll be like,
‘You want to pay her what for her
book? No, it has to be more!’ So, uh,
she’s not afraid to ask for things. So
we met kind of through the “publishing
world” and I’ve been working with her
for a number of years.
Q: Most published authors have some
sort of agent, or someone who helps
Q: So, you would say you have a good
“guide” them in the publishing world.
relationship with Holly?
Do you have an
A: Oh, absolutely.
agent to help you In certain political times, it becomes If I didn’t have a
with this? If so,
good relationship
more important how we treat each
what is his/her
with my agent, it
other, and that we treat each other
job? How did you
would really be a
with respect and accept our differmeet?
problem, because
ences.
A: Uh, that’s an
that is someone
interesting quesyou have to trust.
tion, no one’s
She handles all of
actually asked me
my contracts, I,
that in an interyou know, my
view. My agent is Holly McGee. She
contracts are like an inch thick, and if I
used to be an editor at a publishing
had to try and understand them and
house called HarperCollins, so I met
everything that’s in there, it would
her first in her capacity as an editor,
make me crazy, so she interprets all of
and then she started her own company. that stuff and tells me when and where
And the thing about Holly is, she
I should sign. I just do what she tells
wouldn’t object to me saying she’s
me to do. [laughs]
pushy. She is pushy; she is really
pushy. So that’s the kind of person you Q: How are some of your books simi-
Sarah Weeks
lar to each other? How are they different?
A: That’s another great question. I
think the biggest similarity between
my books is that they’re all realistic
fiction. I think, also, I like very much
to write about people who have some
kind of a challenge. Especially a challenge that’s perceived as like, “Oh,
they’ll never be able to get beyond
that!” Like Mama in So B. It, who has
so, so many limitations, I mean, she
can only say twenty-five words, and
yet, she’s a wonderful mother, she
expresses love, she’s a valuable member of the community. Probably the
biggest difference is that sometimes
my main characters are boys and
sometimes they’re girls. I raised two
boys, and I feel like I know boys kind
of inside and out, so I actually love
writing male characters.
Q: If you could become one of your
characters, which one would you be?
A: Maybe Aunt Polly, in Pie, because I
love baking. Even though she died.
[laughs]
Interview
(continued)
By: Kayla Jordan and
Srinidhi Sridharan
Q: What do you consider your greatest achievement in writing?
A: Maybe the fact that I have continued to do it for so long. I
mean, I’ve written fifty-five books, it’s quite a few. There are certainly things remaining that I would like to achieve, but haven’t
yet, and I’ll keep trying!
Q: You teach at the New School, a college in New York City. What
subject do you teach? What are some of your teaching techniques?
A: I teach a writing workshop for people wanting to write for
young readers. A number of students of mine have gone on to publish. I’m a tough teacher, I expect my students to work really hard,
and I expect them to experiment in different genres. I insist that my
students try their hand at writing in every style and genre, so that
they really understand writing for kids.
Q: If you could change any grammatical rule, what would it be?
A: I don’t like punctuation rules. I hate semicolons, they’re so
stuck up. I never use them. I use dashes, which to me, are proper
punctuation, but my copy editor is always telling me to use a semicolon.
Q: Most of your characters have one interesting quirk that differentiates them from the others. (For example, Bernie and her agoraphobia in So B it). What inspired such a vivid cast of characters?
A: You know, I like to write about things that are interesting to me,
and people who are regular are not all that interesting; I don’t want
to write about them. One very strange quirk, having to do with my
world, is that most kids don’t want to read about grown-ups.
Honestly, I think that’s why there are so many dead grown-ups in
kids’ stories. In my last book, I just sent the dad on a very long
camping trip. [laughs]
Q: How do you decide on a character’s name?
A: Well, Alice in So B. It, her last name is Wilinsky. That’s one of
my best friends’ last names. I knew he would be thrilled, and he
found out that Cloris Leachman was playing Alice, he was beside
himself. So I try and use things that will be meaningful to the people I know, and then sometimes I just choose a name that feels
right.
Q: Who are some authors you admired when you were a child?
Who are some authors you admire now?
A: The first series I remember loving as a child was the Laura
Ingalls Wilder series, Little House on the Prairie, and I vividly
remember getting the last book in that series for Christmas, and I
think I spent two days just lying in bed reading. I loved mysteries; I
loved the Boxcar Children and Nancy Drew, I loved that kind of
stuff. As an adult, I read almost exclusively books for young readers. I don’t read a lot of adult fiction.
Q: Do you feel that your childhood inspired you to become an
author in any way? If so, how?
A: There’s a wonderful author named Carson McCullers, I admire
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her work so much. Anyway, she once said, “anyone who can survive childhood has more than enough stories to fill a million
books,” so my childhood comes into play in my books all the time.
Q: What sort of impact do you want your book(s) to have on its
readers?
A: It varies from book to book. Of course I want to make a difference. I think if I had to pick one thing that I feel is a message from
my books, it’s tolerance; a tolerance for differences. I think it’s
something that always needs to be reinforced. In certain political
times it becomes more important how we treat each other, and that
we treat each other with respect and accept our differences.
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
A: To read as much as possible, and to read different things. Not
only what you think you’re going to love. I think that you can learn
as much from reading something that you don’t like as you can
from reading something that you do like. So, I think the most
important thing for young writers is to read a lot. The other thing is
to write and share your writing. Find somebody who can appreciate
your work and give you input on it, because I think, if we just write
inside a shell with no input, you’re not going to do your best work.
You need to be able to hear from other people.
Q: What is your favorite book out of the ones that you have written?
A: I don’t actually have a favorite. Every author get asked that
question, and they all have different ways of answering it. Some
people say, ‘oh, my books are like my kids, I don’t like one more
than the other,’ which is kind of true. I have to like all of my books
because so much of myself goes into them and so much time goes
into writing them that it’d be terrible to write a book that I didn’t
like. So I don’t really have a favorite but I always answer that
question by saying it’s the book that I’ve written most recently, or
it’s the book I’m working on now. So right now I’m thinking a lot
about Save Me A Seat and Soof, which is the sequel to So B. It.
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Pot O’ Gold Finder
By: Nicole Caruso
Have you ever wanted a
pointless piece of junk to
follow you everywhere
you go? Well, now you
can make this dream a reality with the
Pot O’ Gold
Finder. It’s
great for you
and
your
foes.This
GOLD!!! f a n t a s t i c
piece of new technology
finds leprechauns’ pots of
gold, so that you can be
granted wishes and become drenched with Irish
spirit. Another goal of the
Finder is to attract leprechauns and spreads holiday positivity by pinching
those who are not wearing
a vibrant green (although
the device is like a personal pet you can bring
with you anywhere and
everywhere, it is color-
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St. Patrick's Day
blind and sees everything
in black, gray, and white.
Be prepared to be pinched
continually throughout the
day). The Pot O’ Gold
Finder has a zero percent
success rate. It sends you
on a wild goose chase, and
multiple people have been
steered in the wrong direction and have gotten lost
in the wilderness, where
they almost starved to
death, had it not been for
the dogs sniffing them out
with the search and rescue
team. So all in all, it is
pretty worth it, I’d say
ONLY FOR $180. Now
you can be inconvenienced for more money
than ever before!
*This is not real*
Movie Review: Before I fall
By: Nicole Caruso
Before I Fall (rated PG13)
was a mediocre movie, that
met none of my expectations, though I must admit
it kept me entertained. Es-
sentially the movie is about
a young girl named Sam
who has to relive the same
tragic day over and over
again. Sam and her group
of friends are nasty, mean
people who are very mean
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Before I fall
to this one girl in particular,
Juliet. Sam must learn to
become a nice, generous
person, and uncover the
mystery behind her wavering friendship and about
Juliet. The movie is pretty
interesting, but it is very
predictable (but that may
just be because of how epically smart I am. Just Kidding.) The movie does
have a little bit of inappropriate content, and is targeted for an older crowd.
Most of the acting was very
good (Starring: Zoey
Deutch, Kian Lawley,
Elena Kampouris, Halston
Sage, and Logan Miller),
and did not disappoint, de-
What if today
was the only
day of the rest
of your life?
Before I fall
spite the fact that most of
the actors are relatively
new to the business and are
up-and-coming. I would
expect to see more from
this great cast in the future.
The movie leaves you depressed, confused, and
slightly frustrated, and all
in all, that is not how I
would prefer to leave a theater.
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