The Perpetual Motion Club edition by Sue Lange Children eBooks
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Welcome to the high school of the future. The glee club is full of rock stars, the brainy kids hack permanent records, and the basketball players are as conceited as the cheerleaders. The walls are ablaze with six-foot-high logos of the hottest junk food, software, and clothing brands of the day. The popular kids are sponsored by Abercrombie, Microsoft, and Frito-Lay. You, on the other hand, can't even get a return text from Clearasil. Your best friend is a witch, your boyfriend a twerp. Your geometry teacher hates you and your mom is gleefully counting down the days until graduation. Guess it's time for another hit of iHigh.
The Perpetual Motion Club edition by Sue Lange Children eBooks
Summary/First Reactions: The world the novel takes place in is technologically beautiful . I love all the little gadgets and devices that they use to make life easier. The novel opens up with a classroom full of everyday children. Some of them are playing games on there phones. Some of them are reading. Others are checking their stocks. Most of them are getting a dose of iHigh, the newest drug, into their system.You see, normal kid stuff.Elsa Webb is that main character of our story, and she acts just like you would think a teenage girl in high school should act like. She's annoying. Despite being extreme school smarts, she can be amazingly stupid. And for most of the book she gets on my every loving nerves. I actually found my self being more on the side of Jimmy and May than Elsa.
What made me really mad about Elsa was the fact that she couldn't see through Jason, a guy she was crushing on. It was painfully obvious that he wasn't interested. Painfully. And it made it hard to take her serious when she acted like a 8 year old. She was also very controlling which made me not care about the outcome of her endeavors. And at some points, she was just being a bully. Like the way she kept referring to Jimmy as a Twerp despite the fact that he is nothing but nice to her.
Other than my gripes with the main character, the story is pretty cool. Taking place in a near future, Elsa Webb doesn't want to conform to the school she goes to. Because Northawken High is all about appearances. The rock stars sport abercrombie & fitch. The nerds are sponsored by Apple and Microsoft, etc. So to get away from all of that Elsa does the unthinkable, she starts her own club. The Perpetual Motion Club. But with little support from the teachers and students, the tasks is a lot harder than it looks. She has to fight the school board, other students, and even her own mother. However, that challenges don't stop there. And Elsa is about to learn more about herself than she ever wanted to.
The Good: Great story. Cool idea. Amazing Secondary Characters.
The Bad: The main character made me want to throw the book out a window sometimes.
Overall: Great story but annoying main character. 4/5
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The Perpetual Motion Club edition by Sue Lange Children eBooks Reviews
In a futuristic world where teens get high on iHigh and schools are filled with students who have blaring sponsors everywhere you look, The Perpetual Motion Club is a book that science nerds will love and proves that the impossible may not be so unattainable after all.
"Can't we celebrate the impractical once in a while? Besides, isn't the impractical the foundation of great progress? If people hadn't been searching for free energy all this time, would Archimedes' pump, complicated gear systems, or solar collectors ever have been invented? Would Da Vinci have come up with anything at all if he hadn't foolishly tried to get something from nothing?"
I found myself zooming through this book because I really liked it. The satirical narrative voice which overshadowed the whole novel made it a joy to read, and ensured that there was never a dull, monotonous moment. Each character had their own distinct features, and through the story it was great to see how their perspectives changed as they matured. Reading about all the scientific explanations and the concept of perpetual motion itself was really interesting for a science nerd like me.
The subplot of a murder mystery involving one of the main characters added an extra element to the story to 'balance out' all the scientific talk. This also assisted to drive the story forward and it was definitely beneficial. In conjunction with how Elsa's character changed in how she saw people and interacted with other made for a plot which was both unique and intriguing with its own special charm.
*CONCLUSION*
In conclusion, if you're looking for a speculative, satirical view of life in the eyes of a teenage student in the future then The Perpetual Motion Club is for you. For science nerds and those who aren't alike, I would say to give this a try as there's more to it than first meets the eye.
This novel is set in a near-future high school. It is similar to, and very different from, today's high school.
Northawken High School is full of the usual high school cliques. It is also a place where many of the students are sponsored by one or more corporations, ranging from Abercrombie and Fitch to Microsoft. The school is full of six-foot high logos for the latest junk food or software.
Elsa Webb is one of the few un-sponsored students. She is very smart, but full of the usual high school emotions. Despite encouragement from her friends, her parents and her geometry teacher, Elsa is very uninterested in joining the school's Science Society. It will supposedly look very good on her resume; she may not get into a good college without it. Impulsively, she decides to start a Perpetual Motion Club.
Interest among her classmates in joining the club is nearly non-existent. The only other members are her friends May, who is a witch, and Jimmy, who has loved Elsa from afar. She is unable to get the club sanctioned by the school. Meantime, Elsa has a major crush on Jason, the new kid in school, who is part of the basketball team. Even though Elsa helps him out of a huge jam, Jason barely knows that she is alive.
With a school-wide science competition called Future World rapidly approaching, Elsa decides on a major change in emphasis. Instead of trying to build a perpetual motion machine, she will look at the subject from a different angle. Will Jimmy and May help build her new idea? Will Jason and his basketball cohorts lend a hand? Will she get it to school on time?
The author does a really good job exploring the good and bad of the high school experience. The story is interesting and believable. This is not just for high school students; adults will also enjoy it.
Summary/First Reactions The world the novel takes place in is technologically beautiful . I love all the little gadgets and devices that they use to make life easier. The novel opens up with a classroom full of everyday children. Some of them are playing games on there phones. Some of them are reading. Others are checking their stocks. Most of them are getting a dose of iHigh, the newest drug, into their system.You see, normal kid stuff.
Elsa Webb is that main character of our story, and she acts just like you would think a teenage girl in high school should act like. She's annoying. Despite being extreme school smarts, she can be amazingly stupid. And for most of the book she gets on my every loving nerves. I actually found my self being more on the side of Jimmy and May than Elsa.
What made me really mad about Elsa was the fact that she couldn't see through Jason, a guy she was crushing on. It was painfully obvious that he wasn't interested. Painfully. And it made it hard to take her serious when she acted like a 8 year old. She was also very controlling which made me not care about the outcome of her endeavors. And at some points, she was just being a bully. Like the way she kept referring to Jimmy as a Twerp despite the fact that he is nothing but nice to her.
Other than my gripes with the main character, the story is pretty cool. Taking place in a near future, Elsa Webb doesn't want to conform to the school she goes to. Because Northawken High is all about appearances. The rock stars sport abercrombie & fitch. The nerds are sponsored by Apple and Microsoft, etc. So to get away from all of that Elsa does the unthinkable, she starts her own club. The Perpetual Motion Club. But with little support from the teachers and students, the tasks is a lot harder than it looks. She has to fight the school board, other students, and even her own mother. However, that challenges don't stop there. And Elsa is about to learn more about herself than she ever wanted to.
The Good Great story. Cool idea. Amazing Secondary Characters.
The Bad The main character made me want to throw the book out a window sometimes.
Overall Great story but annoying main character. 4/5
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