The Kind of Friends We Used to Be by Frances O’Roark Dowell is about a two girls who used to be best friends until seventh grade when Marylin decided to be a cheerleader. Kate didn’t have anything against cheerleaders, but Marylin had always tried to change Kate. Marylin was the kind of girl who ...
This book is cute, lighthearted, and a quick read! I completed it in 2-3 hours, to re-live my freshman year of high school. Janie reminds me of myself a lot. A witty, sarcastic girl with a little bit of edge. She plays bass and lives on a farm. I play the drums, and I also live in the middle of n...
I thought this was a good book for children. It did have some fantasy elements, with a surrealistic fox character, which may be hard for some children to grasp. It dealt with some good issues for children; Abigail is overweight and has to cope with some bullying by some girls at school. It also d...
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It seems that people are only popular because they are unstable with who they are, and if they ‘fit in’. Popular kids act all cool around others, but on the inside they are asking if the other person likes them. In my book Marylin doesn’t think she is pretty, or smart, and she insults herself a...
Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) has three goals for fourth grade: 1. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. 2. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. 3. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. It's a tall order, but he's confident that he can achieve it, especially since...
Where I'd Like To Be is about a shy and sweet little girl named Maddie. Maddie's Granny ensures her that she is special because as a baby a ghost saved her life. Sadly though Maddie has been shuffled in an out of foster homes her entire life and now has been placed into an orphanage, where it is ...
She did this every night after she finished her homework; it had become part of her routine. Some nights she didn’t have any luck at all—heavy metal night in particular offered pretty slim pickings—but Tuesday was the Girls with Guitars show, and the odds were pretty good that she’d hear at least...
Miss Pittman! I was waiting on the porch with a jar full of salt pork and a pillowcase filled with greens to take to Aunt Jennie, and I nearly dropped them both when I saw Miss Pittman walking up our path. I have not given her the time of day ever since I heard about what she wrote in her letter,...
No fish, unless you counted the swarms of tiny minnows, which the fox did not. Minnows! When once she had dined on red-and-orange cutthroat trout. She’d been in the long-ago story of the grand expedition, on a narrow boat floating westward on the lazy river. Everything had seemed so new, even the...
He looked like a soldier. I was almost scared to talk to him. Because I could tell he was a changed person, and I knew that whatever he’d gone through in basic training had made him stronger and harder, more ready for war. It made me feel like a little kid just to stand beside him. I figured that...