Word: bobbseys
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...hardly a new approach - young-adult series have often been written by multiple authors under contract, ever since the Bobbsey Twins. The Maze of Bones is by Rick Riordan, a former middle school history teacher who is the author of the best-selling Percy Jackson series, and who also helped flesh out ideas for the other books in the 39 Clues series. "They were very secretive," Riordan says. "They did nondisclosure agreements. I felt like I was working for the CIA!" Riordan's involvement with Amy and Dan will end when Maze goes on sale Sept...
...thoroughly modern outing, Larry P. Hotchkiss ’04 attended the wedding of his mother’s ex-fiancée over the weekend escorted by his own ex-girlfriend, Helen Carnegie Bobbsey ’04. Hotchkiss and Bobbsey arrived at the Rhode Island chapel only to make the awkward discovery that they were the only invited guests. Said Bobbsey, “Had I known I was going to be the maid of honor, I would have worn different shoes...
After spending the summer in residence at the Georgetown baseball team house while working at the State Department, Helen Carnegie Bobbsey ’04 felt that her new suite in Kirkland was somewhat lacking. To make herself feel more at home, Bobbsey broke several windows, started a small electrical fire, tossed used condoms about like rose petals, ripped the bathroom sink off the wall, installed an 11 foot stripper pole in the common room and invited two local homeless men to come and crap in her closet. “Now the place...
Series books were hardly new by the time they reached the ’80s. The Bobbsey twins had been around since 1904; they had already been to several Camps and Carnivals and had safely solved the Smoky Mountain Mystery. Then there were all those “sleuths” and “adventurers” of earlier years, spry youngsters with names like Betty Gordon, Poppy Ott and the Girl Aviators—to say nothing of Nancy Drew...
Sadly, the season's final game also marked the end of the collegiate careers of great teammates and friends Gunderson and Magnuson. The two, both of Scandinavian descent, have been called the Bobbsey Twins for their closeness in and out of the water...