Clementine, Friend Of The Week (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
This is another Clementine story. In this book, Clementine has been chose to be the friend of the week and will get a book Friday filled with all the good things her classmates have to say about her. She is very excited and tells her mom and dad and her friend Margaret. Of course, since Margaret has already been in the third grade and been friend of the week she’s not that excited. Then Margaret reads what her class wrote in her book. Clementine is worried about what her class will write. So Margaret tells her some ideas. Later Margaret gets mad at Clementine and says they aren’t friends anymore. First Clementine is very complimentary. Everyone she sees gets a compliment so that they will have something nice to say about her. Then when she runs out of compliments she moves on to her next idea. TATTOOS. She gives all her class tattoos on the playground. OF course, she ends up in the principal’s office for this. The teacher reminds the class about the bike rally on Saturday. Clementine has another great idea to get more good things written in her book. She tells the whole class that she will bring decorations for their bikes too. Then, Clementine starts worrying about how to decorate her bike. She’s so excited about decorating her bike she loses Moisturizer.Clementine is so upset she misses school and the bike rally. Clementine knows all her friends will be mad and she doesn’t even want to know what the book will say. In the end, Margaret had helped all the class put “Lost” poster signs on their bikes and helped find Moisturizer. Margaret and Clementine were still best friends and Clementine’s class wrote a lot of nice things about her! "Clementine, Friend of the Week" is about a third grade girl, named Clementine, who is going to be friend of the week. Her best friend Margaret got friend of the week when she was in third grade. When Margaret sees Clementine handling her friend of the week booklet, she gets so mad at Clementine and they never want to speak to each other again, even though Clementine never opened the book. She just wanted to take the tape off of it that Margaret's brother had stuck on it. One day, Clementine finds that her cat is missing. Margaret hands out the "Missing Cat" flyers to children at the bike rally and has them stick the flyers to their bikes. In the end, Margaret and Clementine forgive each other, the missing cat is found, and Clementine gets a wonderful friend of the week booklet. This book would appeal mostly to third or fourth grade girls. They would enjoy it because most of them could probably relate to having a best friend and suddenly being so mad at that person that they never want to be friends with them again. Pennypacker, S., & Frazee, M. (2010). Clementine, Friend of the Week. New York: Disney-Hyperion Books.
What do You think about Clementine, Friend Of The Week (2010)?
I thought this book is a fantastic novel for kids and groun-ups espesaily
—Shortyweaver
