#MadLibMonday - Cry of the Sea by D.G. Driver

When I was growing up, I loved Mad Libs. The excitement of sort of writing your own story really appealed to me. So I thought it would be fun to mesh that love with my love of books by turning blurbs into mad libs and letting you guys write your own book blurbs. 

For anyone that doesn't know how Mad Libs work, I will ask you for certain parts of speech or other specific things (i.e.: date, age, color, etc.) which you will write down. After you have completed your list, scroll down below the cover image to find the redacted blurb. Then read through it substituting your words where applicable. Try not to laugh. (Laughing is actually strongly encouraged, because this is supposed to be funny.)

Some brief definitions of the parts of speech.
Noun: Person, place, or thing.
Verb: Describes or indicates action.
Adverb: Modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb expressing manner, place, time, or degree (gently, here, now, very).
Adjective: Names an attribute of a noun (pretty, blue, large)
Pronoun: A word that can function as a noun (I, we, they)
Preposition: a word that combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that usually acts as an adverb, adjective, or noun (on, after, for)

And with that, here we go.

1: Noun
2: City
3: Plural noun
4: Verb
5: Two-digit number
6: Verb
7: Noun
8: Mythical creature, plural
9: Adjective
10: Verb

Genre: YA Paranormal

Published: February 23, 2014

Publisher: Fire and Ice Young Adult Books

Pages: 208
Goodreads // Amazon

Juniper Sawfeather is choosing which (   1: Noun   ) to attend after graduation from West Olympia High School next year. She wants to go to (   2: City   ) to be far away from her environmental activist (   3: Plural noun   ). They expect her to (   4: Verb   ) the way they do, but having to be constantly fighting causes makes it difficult to be an average (   5: Two-digit number   )-year-old high school student. Why do her parents have to be so "out there?"

Her feelings on the subject are changed when she and her father (   6: Verb   ) to the beach after a reported oil spill. As they document the damage, June discovers three humans washed up on the (   7: Noun   ), struggling to breathe through the oil coating their skin. At first she thinks they must be surfers, but as she gets closer, she finds out that these aren't humans at all. They're (   8: Mythical creature, plural   )!

Now begins a complex story of intrigue, conspiracy and manipulation as June, her parents, a marine biologist and his (   9: Adjective   ) young intern, her best friend, the popular clique at school and the oil company (   10: Verb   ) over the fate of the mermaids.

Now that your fun is through, here's the real blurb for Cry of the Sea by D. G. Driver.

Juniper Sawfeather is choosing which college to attend after graduation from West Olympia High School next year. She wants to go to San Diego to be far away from her environmental activist parents. They expect her to think the way they do, but having to be constantly fighting causes makes it difficult to be an average seventeen-year-old high school student. Why do her parents have to be so "out there?"

Her feelings on the subject are changed when she and her father rush to the beach after a reported oil spill. As they document the damage, June discovers three humans washed up on the beach, struggling to breathe through the oil coating their skin. At first she thinks they must be surfers, but as she gets closer, she finds out that these aren't humans at all. They're mermaids!

Now begins a complex story of intrigue, conspiracy and manipulation as June, her parents, a marine biologist and his handsome young intern, her best friend, the popular clique at school and the oil company fight over the fate of the mermaids.

If you enjoyed this mad lib, comment with your list below (if you dare) so that the rest of us can get a chuckle out of it as well. - Katie