Chicks with Sticks (It's a Purl Thing)

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	• Chicks with Sticks (It's a Purl Thing) Elizabeth Lenhard Dutton Juvenile, 2005 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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Chicks with Sticks (Knitwise)

At this time, all the summaries and reviews on this page are from the previous two books. Here is the scoop from the inside cover of the hardback (I haven't finished it so I can't truly review it yet)

"For Scottie, Amanda, Bella, and Tay, life in Chicago is about seeking shelter. They've found it in their firelit stitch-n-[...] at Joe; in the halls of their quirky private school; in the arms of boyfriends-and always in the comfort of friendship that bonds them together.
But now the Chicks are staring down at the end of high school and it's time to contemplate life beyond the protective web of their knitty ensemble. Will the stresses of college applications and service projects, debutante balls and long-distance loves, mean the end of the Chicks? Or can this unlikely foursome bind-off the happy ending that only true friendship can craft?
The end is only the beginning for the Chicks, who return with their trademark wit and warmth along with four fabulous new projects."

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Fifteen-year-old Scottie has trains roaring through her dreams at night, resulting in hours of early morning insomnia. It's been like this since Aunt Roz's funeral. To make it worse, she's begun to feel like a stranger in her own home-turned-art gallery. Her mother spends days in a trance creating bizarre paintings that have become the new "must-have" art, and her dad spends hours on the phone schmoozing potential buyers and scheduling the next art party.

Scottie's parents don't seem to remember she exists and Scottie fears that she's becoming invisible to her best friend, Amanda, as well. Amanda has left her for the popular clique as she developed curves that Scottie is, so far, lacking. Scottie's life is falling apart. Only a ball of yarn and a couple of needles keep her from becoming completely frayed.

Early one morning, once again wide-awake, she discovers the knitting her Aunt Lucille had pressed into her hands at her Aunt Roz's shivah, under a pile of clothes on the rug at her feet. Intrigued, she tries a stitch, surprised she can remember the "spike, loop, swish" knitting motion. One stitch turns into an entire row. Scottie feels the tension leaving her shoulders. Without thinking, she crams her knitting into her book bag as she prepares to leave for school.

Under pressure with Amanda and her new friends at lunch, Scottie whips out her swatch and ball of yarn and begins knitting. So much for being invisible. Scottie becomes so hooked on knitting that she goes in search of a store named KnitWit and finds herself staying for a free class offered by the owner, Alice. Fate intervenes and Amanda shows up, along with other girls from her school, Tay and Bella.

It doesn't take long before they become the "Chicks with Sticks" and Scottie finds comfort in finally belonging somewhere. But will the feeling last? It seems friends are dropping as often as she drops stitches. Amanda deserts her to free-form with her new knitting friends after her Learning Disability session at the college. Bella becomes so engrossed in knitting that she prefers solitude with her afghan. And Tay blames Scottie for the problems between her and Josh. And when she finally gets the nerve to tell her parents that she's a knitter, they get all excited that she's decided to be a "fiber artist," whatever that is. She turns to Alice only to find KnitWit's doors are closed on their meeting night.

Elizabeth Lenhard has created a warm, woolly read in IT'S A PURL THING. As a knitter, I found myself itching to grab my needles and feel the familiar comfort of K3, P3 of my current work-in-progress in soft homespun lavender. Teens are taking up their needles and creating beautiful works of art. I encourage you to join them. But before you do, take a moment to curl up with IT'S A PURL THING.

Reviewed by: Cana Rensberger

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Chicks with Sticks (It's a Purl Thing)

Wow, I think that this book has a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants feel to it, without being too random.

One girl, whose aunt has just died, takes up knitting as a way to calm down. It helps her and her best friend get close again, and they even make new friends.

I don't really know what else to say about this book, except it was cute and really interesting. Although it seemed kind of corny, since I don't think very many girls like that would start knitting, but overall it was fun and light.

Knitwise = Teenwise

I liked this latest installment to the Chicks with Sticks series. Scottie's angst really comes to a head when she realizes this is THE END of her life as she knows it.

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Absolutely Amazing

THis was absolutely one of the best books I have ever read. I knit so I do think it helps to understand the book abit better. I do think the first one is more interesting though. But other than that, aweseome book!

reviews: page 1, 2, 3

To the clack of their knitting needles, Scottie,Amanda, Bella, and Tay are fast becoming a circle of friends. For these girls?who couldn?t be further apart on their elite high school?s social spectrum?it?s hard to say which is a more surprising development: their new friendship or their sudden yen for yarn. Chicks with Sticks weaves together knitting terms and lore, cool projects and patterns, and timeless themes of friendship and self-discovery. Fans of the bestselling Stitch ?n Bitch, Teen Knitting Club, and fiction like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants will find this a pattern-perfect offering for teens, knitting and book clubs, and giftgiving moms and grandmas.

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