{"id":3878,"date":"2015-08-28T21:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2015-08-28T21:04:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T21:04:44","slug":"so-yesterday-by-scott-westerfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3878","title":{"rendered":"So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m not quite sure how I read [and loved] Peeps<\/em><\/a>, the Uglies<\/a><\/em> series, the Leviathan<\/a><\/em> series, AND Afterworlds<\/a><\/em> but managed not to get around to this book until now….\u00a0Though I felt the references to pop culture and technology definitely dated the story a bit, I think it is still relevant enough to recommend to today’s teens. \u00a0After all, society still cycles through “cool” fashions and trends.\u00a0 And I don’t think many people really consider WHY and HOW things become “cool” — they just fall into the trap of wanting the next “cool” thing. \u00a0I encourage my kids (my biological children and the ones I work with) to question everything instead of just taking other people’s word for it.\u00a0 I also encourage them to trust their own instincts and to find their own style instead of caring what other people will think. \u00a0As long as you’re not purposely trying to offend other people, I think you should embrace what you love and just go with it. \u00a0Hopefully, this story will help some tweens and teens see the light.<\/p>\n

Hunter Braque was a “cool hunter.” \u00a0He was literally paid, mostly in free shoes, to report upcoming trends and fashions to a major corporation he called “The Client.”\u00a0 (Throughout the story, Hunter left out the names of the brands\/companies to which he was referring — but he gave just enough information that the readers could likely fill in the blanks on their own.) \u00a0Hunter actually worked for a woman named Mandy, who reported back to The Client after “cool tastings” (aka focus groups). \u00a0When Hunter met Jen, he just knew Mandy would want to meet her, too, and got her an invitation to a cool tasting. \u00a0Jen’s new perspective earned both Hunter and Jen an invitation to a super-secret meeting with Mandy, but then Mandy never showed up.\u00a0 After hearing Mandy’s cell phone ringing from inside the abandoned building, Hunter and Jen broke in and found a stockpile of the coolest<\/em> shoes they’d ever seen.\u00a0 They weren’t sure what to think, but they were pretty sure Mandy was in trouble and that it had something to do with those shoes…. Action and mystery combine for a super-fun read that also questions the conformity and consumerism that run rampant in our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not quite sure how I read [and loved] Peeps, the Uglies series, the Leviathan series, AND Afterworlds but managed not to get around to this book until now….\u00a0Though I felt the references to pop culture and technology definitely dated the story a bit, I think it is still relevant enough to recommend to today’s … Continue reading So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}