Steffie Can't Come Out to Play by Fran Arrick

We too have several HUNGER GAMES stories to share, as well as news reports on an upcoming picture book from a political wife, a re-release of a young adult novel from the seventies, a new study on the popularity of various Newbery winners, and a tragic tale about the loss of a beloved children's book icon. Needless to say, a lot of media coverage has centered on THE HUNGER GAMES, which is breaking records at the box office. On it says the book “ springs from concern for the fates each year of thousands of young American runaways.” Let this be a warning to any young girls who want to run away into the arms of a guy who has a fountain in his bedroom.Children's books have really been in the news this week!

I’m almost done reading it, but I’m slowing down because I don’t want it to end. And there was also a tiny fountain built into the floor that had real water running through it.”) And it completely satisfies my love of anything hooker-related. The book is well-written and captures early-80s New York so well: the seedy hangouts, the run-down hotels, the discos, the bad furnishings in Favor’s apartment (“The bedroom had mirrors with black streaks like marble running through them. I want to shake her and say, “Are you crazy? The guy wears gold chains and calls you ‘sweet face’ and wants to watch you put on pantyhose!”īut it’s hard to put down. The girl is fourteen and the things she does for her “Favor” are disturbing.

I’m reading the book now, and as an adult, it reads much differently than it did when I was twelve. (Who doesn’t want to run away at some point when they’re a tween?)

As a kid I was completely engrossed and felt Steffie’s plight. It’s about a fourteen-year-old girl who runs away from the doldrums of her life in small-town Pennsylvania and winds up in NYC hooking for a smooth-talking pimp named “Favor”. The book is called Steffie Can’t Come out to Playby Fran Arrick. I posted a while back that, after years of searching, I found a book I loved as a kid. Scott Fitzgerald fiction film George Orwell gifts haiku Haruki Murakami Hemingway Huffington Post humor Huruki Murakami James Frey James Joyce Jeffery Eugenides Jennifer Egan KGB Bar Kindle Kurt Vonnegut language Laura Kasischke letters libraries Lorrie Moore New York City New Yorker Oedipus old words Peru Philadelphia phrase phrases poetry publishing Ray Bradbury reading reviews sex Steffie Can't Come Out to Play Stephen King Sylvia Plath Tea Obreht teen book The Great Gatsby The Guardian The Huffington Post The Literary Review the National Book Foundation The New Yorker the New York Times The Tiger's Wife To Kill a Mockingbird Truman Capote word origin words writers writing young adult

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Steffie Can't Come Out to Play by Fran Arrick