Callie is a reporter for her school newspaper, and has landed a backstage pass to interview the band that’s playing in town, Brass Rat. This is a big deal for Callie, who is only 14 and has wildly over-protective parents, which is strange given the names they saddled their children with. These paranoid adults have given their children names that guarantee they will have difficulties in life. I present to you: Marsepolus, Calcephony, and Nickelodeon. In an era with cell phones, they named their youngest […]
This could have been so much better…
Pay the Piper by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple