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Zusatztext THE NAME GAME! Author: Moss! Marissa Illustrator: Moss! Marissa Review Date: May 1! 2011 Publisher: Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster Pages: 80 Price ( Paperback ): $5.99 Publication Date: July 12! 2011 ISBN ( Paperback ): 978-1-4424-1738-0 Category: Fiction Series: Daphne's Diary of Daily Disasters Volume: 1 On her first day of fourth grade! Daphne starts a diary that quickly becomes one of doodles and disasters and sets up a new series by the creator of Amelia. In this series opener! her teacher! Ms. Underwood! mispronounces her name when calling the roll! so that classmates—except best friend Kaylee—are calling her Daffy. The very slim plot involves Daphne's discovery that the name game has happened to others. Her solution is to nickname her teacher! but she realizes that she’s not the first to call her teacher Mrs. Underwear. The first-person narrative includes familiar middle-grade scenes—a trip to the orthodontist and the boredom of watching her younger brothers’ soccer practice—sketches of people and things! even rebuses. In a companion story that publishes simultaneously! The Vampire Dare ! her vampire costume turns out to be a disaster! prompting classmates to claim she has cooties. Again Daphne turns the tide by transferring the onus to a cootie-catching old doll. This light reading is made even lighter by the fact that the last quarter of each volume is taken up with extra material: lists and sketches of name disasters in the first and costume disasters in the second. Hand-lettered on lined paper like Moss’ hugely popular Amelia’s Notebook (1995) and its sequels! this series is likely to appeal to the same middle-grade audience... (Graphic fiction. 8-11) - KIRKUS REVIEWS May 2011 Informationen zum Autor Marissa Moss is the bestselling creator of the perennially popular Amelia series as well as the Daphne’s Daily Disasters series. She lives in Berkeley, California. Visit her at MarissaMoss.com and at AmeliaBooks.com. Klappentext In her diary! Daphne Davis doodles! draws! and documents a series of disasters on her first two days of fourth grade! most of which result from her new teacher accidentally calling her Daffy. Zusammenfassung In The Name Game! ! Daphne has never (ever) loved her name! but it is her name and she can’t do much to change it. So when the first day of fourth grade comes! Daphne is flustered when the new teacher can’t seem to remember her name. It’s not Duffy or Daffy or Doffy. It’s Daphne! And if you ask her! there’s a lot in a name…. In The Vampire Dare! ! Daphne wonders why everyone is so crazy for vampires. She decides it’s kinda cool to be bitten by a vampire because you’ll live forever—and if you can’t die! you can’t get old and wrinkly. So when the teachers announce a costume day (even though Halloween is long past)! Daphne wants to be the best vampire ever! But what is cool and what is nerdy in Vampire Land? Daphne’s about to find out! ...
