Mention Based On Books Carpe Diem

Title	:	Carpe Diem
Author	:	Autumn Cornwell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	August 21st 2007 by Feiwel & Friends
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Travel. Adventure. Romance. Contemporary

Carpe Diem Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages

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“I’ve got my entire life planned out for the next ten years — including my PhD and Pulitzer Prize,” claims 16-year-old overachiever Vassar Spore, daughter of overachiever parents, who in true overachiever fashion named her after an elite women’s college. Vassar expects her sophomore summer to include AP and AAP (Advanced Advanced Placement) classes. Surprise! Enter a world-traveling relative who sends her plans into a tailspin when she blackmails Vassar’s parents into forcing their only child to backpack with her through Southeast Asia. On a journey from Malaysia to Cambodia to the remote jungles of Laos, Vassar sweats, falls in love, hones her outdoor survival skills — and uncovers a family secret that turns her whole world upside-down.   Vassar Spore can plan on one thing: she’ll never be the same again.

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Original Title:	Carpe Diem
ISBN:	0312367929 (ISBN13: 9780312367923)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Southeast Asia Malaysia Cambodia …more Laos …less
Literary Awards:	Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2009), Missouri Truman Readers Award Nominee (2010)

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Ratings: 3.95 From 2446 Users | 357 Reviews

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Sometimes overly stereotypical, but otherwise entertaining tale about a young woman learning to live in the moment.interesting quotes (page numbers from edition with ISBN13):"" (p. )"" (p. )"" (p. )"" (p. )

This was recommended to me by a former student, Rachel. I really enjoyed the novel. It is an interesting trend that the heroine does not have to be completely likable which makes them more real. I also liked the theme that you can learn from living in the moment (LIMming). So many times in life our expectations are what get us in to trouble. It is often better to let things unfold around us.Thanks, Rachel!

I ran across CARPE DIEM around four years ago in the Feiwel & Friends catalog. They had the excellent good sense to reprint the wonderful President's Daughter series by Ellen Emerson White, and I wondered what other YA titles they had on the docket at the time. My eye was drawn to this cover right off the bat, and I still think it's just perfect for the book. I love the slightly faded parchment look of it. With the silhouette and the hair and the style it could be anything really. In this

We meet innocently smug 16 year old Vassar Spore firmly entrenched in her routines that will ensure her acceptance to Vassar (hence the name- who could deny her with that moniker hangin' 'round her neck?) a PhD and Pulitzer...her life is planned, planned, planned by her well meaning parents, mom, a life coach and dad the efficiency expert. Obviously they are set up for a fall, enter Grandma Gerd an unencumbered free spirit who has been living in Asia. Seeing the rut that Vassar is in she

Vassar Spore. 16 years old. 5.3 GPA. Named after a very prestigious women's college by her parents. She's got everything planned for her life, and I do mean everything. She vows to spend her summer improving her academics by attending a bunch of classes. But just when she's about to embark her classes, she receives a birthday package from her grandma in Southeast Asia. What's in the package? A plane ticket to Singapore and a birthday note from her Grandma Gerd. Grandma Gerd offers an

Vassar Spore may be the most hopeless overachiever you've ever met. On her TO BE list: Valedictorian? Check. Ivy League school graduate? Check. Wife to Hot Surgeon by 25? Pulitzer Prize winner? Check, check. With a life coach for a mother and an efficiency expert for a dad, you could say she was doomed from birth, but Vassar doesn't know any different. That is until a package containing plane tickets from her little known free-spirited Grandma Gerd arrives on her doorstep. Instead of a summer

I was a bit torn between giving this book a three or a four star rating. I am in the middle of a read around the world challenge and was looking for books set in foreign countries. This one fit the bill and I was actually pleased that I can recommend it to a lot of younger readers since it is quite wholesome and though it has a bit of teen romance it is a very cute and innocent one. I liked the description of the character and her travel and how it was both fascinating and horrifying because I