Living With...An Emo Kid |  | Authors: Charlie Mills, Paul Tunis
Publisher: Red Rock Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1310246
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1933176253
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
EAN: 9781933176253
ASIN: 1933176253
Publication Date: June 25, 2009
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Is someone near to you in retreat? Are you finding scraps of poetry lying about? What about hair-dye stains in the shower? Are you sharing your residence with a person who loves the dark? You might be Living With.an Emo Kid! Learn to recognize and appreciate these weird and wired teens with the help of the first and best field guides to these cutting-edge homo-sapiens.
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Emo kids are people too! July 22, 2009
Kathy (Yonkers, NY)
This book is REALLY funny and insightful. The authors did a great job keeping the humor current and the observations relevant. There is a great section of famous people with emo haircuts, including Obama and Sarah Palin. Even though the book is meant for the supposedly "less hip" family and friends of emo kids, I think it would be an appropriate gift for an actual emo kid as well. I bet they'd laugh at it and at their parents' attempts to understand them. I can't imagine a kid NOT wanting to sneak a peak at this silly book their parents were reading. Although the book pokes fun at emo kids, it makes up for it by ending on a positive note. The book is worth buying for the countdown of emo celebs alone!
Frigin Awesome! July 15, 2009
Ba Jeez
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book for parents and teens alike. It has a humorous way of viewing and understanding emo kids. Plus the illustrations are great! Highly recommended American version!!!
Funny and Informing July 20, 2009
T. P. Sutin (Mesa, AZ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My little teen sister was always saying this or that was "emo" and I only kind of understood what she was talking about. I read the book and it cleared up all of my questions, and it was funny. I gave it to her after I read it and she liked it too.
Great Fun! July 21, 2009
Baby Poose
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a teacher of 7th and 8th grade students I see the evolution of the Emo Kid regularly. The illustrations are humorous and the book is fun to read my students, both Emo and non-Emo, enjoyed it as well. I highly recommend this book; it is especially entertaining for anyone dealing with the dark, adolescent psyche.
 A Humorous Look at Kids Who Dress and/or Act Emo November 1, 2009
James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia)
One of four books in a series which basically is targeted for older generations to poke fun of the current teenage fads in appearance and behaviour. Written in the style of a teenager's mother who has seen her child change from always wanting to be around and worshiping her, to whatever the title of the book is about, each book contains some humour and tongue in cheek advice. The other three books by Charlie Mills are Living with a Gangsta (white kids who want dress to look poor black American kids), which is the funniest one but is not at Amazon at the time of this review, Living With...The Next Big Thing: Diva Division and Living With...A Gamer.
In Emo Kid the title is pretty self explanatory, we're looking at kids who have decided to change their appearance and embrace the Emo culture. Since not all adults even know what this is, it is also explained. There are a few British cultural references and celebrities mentioned which you might not know if you are unfamiliar with them but this doesn't weaken the enjoyment or humour of the book.
All these books have humorous colourfully drawn illustrations but this one also has photos of celebrities with their appearance altered to become Emo (granted it's not that well done). There are also real photos in the chapter Seven Shades of Emo which rates each celebrity with their degree of Emoness by using a similar to the Amazon star system but using Black hair with pink strips method.
Like all other titles in the series this book includes chapters - How to Spot the, Evolution (how your child changes from normal to), Living with the whichever fad teenager dos and don'ts, Inside their bedroom a spotter's guide, Let Music Be Your Guide (lyrics from songs applicable to the fad which to be honest doesn't really work in any of these books, Dating the opposite sex who also is a follower of the same fad, Their entourage, Happy Birthday (how to throw a party suited to), On Holiday (includes packing essentials), Communication tips (a complicated flow chart that just doesn't work at all in any 4 of these books), On the Big Screen (a list of movie titles with the words altered in the next column to better suit each fad), What's Going on Inside their Head, In the Future (jobs they can be when they're 30 if they don't grow out of the fad) and Could I Be (the mother ponders if she should also become). Some of these chapters better suit some teenage fads than others, and thereby work and don't work in different books.
These books all have their moments that make you laugh but none are burst out in laughter from page one to the back cover. Emo although not as funny as Gansta, is funnier than Gamer and Next Big Thing. If your kid actually is emulating one of these fads you may well find them funnier though.
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