This book was cute, but I acutely felt that I was not the intended audience. I was able to guess the correct answers to the entire quiz on the back when I was only a third of the way through the book. Also, I would have liked to see more character depth for both the mother and the other student...
Too bad, because I usually like Claudia Mills. But I have a problem with the reading being turned into a competition ... and thereby a chore. I did like how she referred to so many other books, though. Will probably set up a display with the ones we have and steer my kids to them.The Secret Garde...
I really liked this book because its was very realistic pic in school life and I could relate to it a lot. I could compare myself to ,Lizzie when she didn't really know what to wear. I could also relate when she something like not really going out to places with friends, something I'm still findi...
Riley’s mom made him eat some broccoli with it. Once he had asked her if she’d pay him for eating broccoli. She had laughed. So he still had to eat broccoli for free. After dinner, Riley told his mother, “I have to go to the library.” “Tonight?” “Well, sometime. I have to get a biography of Teddy...
4 “How did it go?” Wilson’s mother asked when he walked in the door. “Okay.” He wasn’t going to tell her that he had spent the whole time drawing hamsters. She might fire Mrs. Tucker and get him a different math tutor who would make him spend the whole time doing math. Fortunately, his mom didn’t...
Mason’s mother asked him on Saturday morning. Mason stared at the person who was asking him such a preposterous question. The person looked like his mother and sounded like his mother and had the familiar anxious smile of his mother. But she was uttering words that no one who knew Mason—such as h...
“Look at it this way. It’s good we found out sooner rather than later,” Mason’s mom said as Mason’s dad backed the car out of the driveway. “Before we got too attached.” “I’m already too attached!” Brody moaned. Inside her cardboard cat carrier, placed between the two boys on the backseat, Cat me...
But at lunch, when I tell Kylee what Olivia said about my review, she says, “Oh, come on. It wouldn’t be funny if it was all nicey-nice.” After school Kylee and I get a ride from my mom to the public library. We’re supposed to be finding books on the Cherokee Trail of Tears (Kylee) and the Iroquo...
She wanted to stay at home to listen for the phone, sure that Mr. Lydgate was going to call to say that he had convinced Mr. Besser to let her go to the choir concert. Or maybe Mr. Besser himself would call to lift her suspension altogether. How could he not listen to almost four hundred students...
Mrs. Morengo continued. “And if anybody is disappointed at not getting this opportunity, remember that you fourth graders will have many chances to shine over the next two years.” But not to shine on television. The shiniest—that is to say, the worst—shining of all. “I’ve decided that our Puff fo...