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Hardcover Nothing Ever Happens on 90th.S Book

ISBN: 0531095363

ISBN13: 9780531095362

Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street

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Book Overview

Eva, a would-be writer, sits on her New York City stoop with her notebook, waiting for something to happen. She has been given a homework assignment to record goings-on in her Manhattan neighborhood. Each neighbor who passes offers her useless writing tips, but it isn't until Eva takes matters into her own hands that exciting things begin to happen in her neighborhood -- enough to make a great story A hilarious sequence of happenings ensues and Eva learns that you can find inspiration for writing anywhere if you observe carefully enough. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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7 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Blase Becomes Passe, or New Tudes for Bored Moods

"Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street" is really two books in one. Although the book works as a whole, the first half is compelling, memorable and unique; the happy, goofy second half is merely fun. As she introduces her characters' dilemmas, sorrows, and idiosyncracies, Roni Schotter is remarkably poetic and poignant. When these characters collide (both literally and figuratively) in the book's second half, Schotter combines...

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A Great and Useful Book!

This is a wonderfully imaginative book filled with lively characters and surprising events. I've read it to my class and they've asked for it again and again. Even more importantly, it has stimulated and improved their writing skills and inspired them to try their own version of this story. A great help in the classroom, and, a lot of fun!

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A Wonderfully Entertaining and Educational Book

A fun romp full of wonderful characters, plus helpful tidbits to improve children's writing. A multicultural and intergenerational story in an urban setting, in which the soap opera star Saundra Saunderson and the fish store owner Mr. Chang come together with many other colorful neighbors to create a community on 90th Street. Eva, the child writer, records and participates in all the action and finally comes up with an...

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Wonderful for elementary writing strategies.

As Eva records in her writer's notebook she believes she has nothing to write about. Her colorful neighbors, however, prove this to be quite far from the truth. Each rich character offers sound writing strategies that Eva applies to her writing. A lonely retired actor encourages her to look for the details all around. The prima ballerina who never smiles invites Eva to stretch her imagination. Mrs. Martinez advises...

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A funny romp that teaches writing along the way!

I loved this book! It was so much fun! A chain of comical events occurs on 90th Street, where "Nothing ever happens." Eva has to write something for school and has no ideas. But then, all of a sudden, things begin to happen. A pizza peddler is hit by a limo, the pizza man and a dancer fall in love, and a cat stuck in a tree. But there's more, some of it real, and some of it maybe imagined by Eva. The neighbors chime...

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