Priscilla the Great Blog Tour: Teenage Garage Sale + Giveaway

Hi everyone! I’m lucky enough to be a part of Priscilla the Great tour in Teen Book Scene. Today, Sybil will be posting about items from her teenage years. Hope you stick around!

My nose was stuck in a book for most of my teenage years so this is actually a very tough question for me. I only have vague memories of what was going on when I was a teenager, but ask me what I was reading back then, I could tell you without hesitation. But here is what I do remember:

Some of the music that was popular back then was the Dave Matthews Band and Hootie and the Blowfish. What is sad is that I was talking to a twelve-year-old the other day about how one of my students is the nanny for Darius Rucker and she was like: “Who is that?” So I was like: “He’s the lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish.” And she was like: “What’s a hootie and a blowfish?” I should have let it go there and walked away, but instead I broke out into a spontaneous rendition of “Hold My Hand.”

Anyway, I’m sure there would have been CD’s of those bands for sale or…cassette tapes. Yes, people still kind of used cassette tapes when I was a teenager. In fact, you might have found a discman or a walkman in the garage sale as well. Primitive, I know. I don’t think you could even find a walkman anywhere nowadays...except eBay. Maybe in the antiques section.

You probably would have found baseball cards and Charlotte Hornets’ jerseys at the garage sale as well. They were a popular team back then. Now they don’t even exist.

And rounding out your garage sale experience, you probably would have been able to pick up some Air Jordans, slap bracelets and beepers. Wow, I actually had a beeper when I was a teenager. Great, I feel old now. I’m gonna go turn on some Justin Bieber and dance around the kitchen so I can pretend I’m a kid again.

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Giveaway: Win Priscilla the Great Prize Pack!

Sybil Nelson is offering up a big prize pack! The Prize Pack includes:
1 signed Priscilla the Great book,
1 Priscilla the Great t-shirt,
1 Priscilla the Great totebag,
and a $15 iTunes gift card!

Rules:

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Ends April 8, 2011!

(I think this is open internationally. There was no restriction.)