{"id":215,"date":"2011-11-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2011-11-11T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:00:00","slug":"i-lost-my-mobile-at-the-mall-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"I Lost My Mobile at the Mall (fiction)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cellphone<\/a> lost at the mall.
Home computers stolen<\/a>.
How can Elly cope with losing constant contact with her friends? <\/p>\n

Elly’s terrible luck doesn’t make high school life easy in her all-things-British Australian suburb, as she’s not sure where her surfer<\/a> boyfriend is after school, she doesn’t know when friends are getting together for pizza<\/a>, and she has to use the public computer to log on to her favorite social sites… finding out everything – good or bad – well after everyone else does.<\/p>\n

Well-known for her humorous adult books, Australian Wendy Harmer is spot on with Elly’s dismay over being out of touch<\/a> with the rest of Oldcastle High School in her first young adult novel on our Fun Friday. Hope to see more of Elly in future books!
**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: I Lost My Mobile at the Mall: Teen on the Edge of Technological Breakdown \/ Wendy Harmer. Kane Miller Children’s Books, 2011. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [author video<\/a>] <\/p>\n

Recommendation<\/b>: When she loses her cellphone at the mall (again), Elly can\u2019t even report it missing until her Mum gets home from some fancy event she\u2019s organizing – no landline at home, of course. When her parents refuse to buy Elly another cellphone, she finds herself completely out of the loop, unable to text her friends or send photos or talk to her cute surfer boyfriend. Time slows down to a crawl with every minute that she\u2019s out of contact\u2026<\/p>\n

Not that life in Oldcastle is at all exciting. Everything in their Australian coastal town has a British name \u2013 the shops, the pubs, even Elly and her sister and her parents and her pets! With the Pickering family coat of arms hanging on the bathroom wall, who can take all this seriously? Now, not having a cellphone in ninth grade \u2013 that\u2019s serious! She can\u2019t even talk to her best friend about it \u2013 no mobile phone means no calls to far-off Queensland where Carmelita moved last year.<\/p>\n

When the family\u2019s home computers are stolen, Elly feels fully cut off from everyone as planning for the ninth grade dance goes into overdrive. <\/p>\n

Why do her big sister\u2019s new silver sandals fit Elly better than they fit Tilly? What is boyfriend Will doing in that photo on Bianca\u2019s phone? Does her grandmother really want to learn how to use a computer? When will Carmelita\u2019s advice letter arrive? And where\u2019s the Post Office anyway?<\/p>\n

Australian comedienne Wendy Harmer\u2019s first book for young adults brings the effervescent Elly to life as a \u201cteen on the edge of technological breakdown.\u201d (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cellphone lost at the mall.Home computers stolen.How can Elly cope with losing constant contact with her friends? Elly’s terrible luck doesn’t make high school life easy in her all-things-British Australian suburb, as she’s not sure where her surfer boyfriend is after school, she doesn’t know when friends are getting together for pizza, and she has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[104,11,18,44,46,31,21,35,58,3],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-australia","tag-communication","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-non-us-author","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-technology","tag-teens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}