Camp Katrina, the blog, is campaigning to have hurricanes have different sorts of names. You know, not the sort you're embarrassed to say out loud or any likely to leave a poor, innocent regular individual with a name that conjures up death and destruction. See A Long Time Ago in a Hurricane Far, Far Away . . . for a discussion in favor of names taken from Star Wars.
For some nice backlist posts from the same blog, see Hurricanes are a Drag for Stupid Criminals and Operation Lollypop.
Rosa By Starlight by Hilary McKay
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British author Hilary McKay has a history of writing odd and quirky
characters in her middle grade fiction, and somehow for me they work. See
my reviews of...
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