Clementine is having a DISASTROUS week. Clementine lands in the principal's office after she tries to help her best friend, Margaret, cut some glue from Margaret's hair. From there, things just get worse. Everything she does to try to make the situation better, from drawing Margaret fake hair using permanent marker to cutting off her own hair only gets Clementine into more trouble. What's a girl to do? Fans of Junie B. Jones and Ramona Quimby will enjoy getting to know Clementine.

Similar books: Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park; Ramona books by Beverly Cleary

Awards nominated: 2014 Bluestem Nominee

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 6/1/2009

ISBN-10: 0786838825

ISBN-13: 9780786838820

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Erin and Jilly have been best friends all their lives, so Erin is devastated when they're put on different tracks in seventh grade. She won't have any classes at all with Jilly. To make things worse, Serena Worthington is in Erin's track. When she accuses Erin of being Jilly's puppet, Erin can't take it, and she punches Serena before even thinking about it. Not only is Erin in trouble, but rumors spread around the school, and pictures of Pinocchio with Erin's face on them appear on the school walls. Erin writes on her secret web site to cope with everything that's happening. Can she turn her seventh grade year into something great?

Similar books: Access Denied: (And Other Eighth Grade Error Messages) by Denise Vega; The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez by Judy Goldschmidt

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 4/30/2010

ISBN-10: 0316985600

ISBN-13: 9780316985604

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This series of girls and their Alpha, Massie Block, will keep you on the edge of your seat with boy troubles, shopping sprees, and OCD School (Octavian Country Day School). These drama queens will keep you coming back.

Reviewed by: Camp Read-a-Lot Reader

Date read: 5/21/2010

ISBN-10: 0316155772

ISBN-13: 9780316155779

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Commenter: Getamac1998, grade 6

Leanna attends a virtual school. For her history assignment she experiences a program that lets her actually experience being a runaway slave in Harriet Tubman's underground railroad. She then goes back to the virtual homeroom to discuss with her fellow students, who could be next door or across the country, how her experience compared to theirs. In the real world she lives with her mom in a community where most menial tasks are performed by manufactured biological clones who are treated as property, not human beings. As far as Leanna is concerned these creatures have no connection to the slaves in ancient United States history. But then her world is turned upside down. Her mom and her beloved Doc-Doc are both arrested for treason because they are members of the Liberty Bell Movement. Her mom calls herself an abolitionist, not an extremist. Leanna's assumptions about history, reality and her own identity are tested in this futuristic thriller.

Reviewed by: caroll

Date read: 3/13/2012

ISBN-10: 0439929830

ISBN-13: 9780439929837

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Commenter: Scpl Reader, grade 0

Logan has just moved into an old house next to the house where Arthur and his grandmother live. Arthur informs the family that Myrtle Donaldson, the previous owner, had been murdered. Even though Logan's mother disapproves of Arthur's actions and vocabulary, the two thirteen year old boys become friends. They discover that The Magic Forest amusement park is closed for the season and want to 'scope out' the park. During their mission to solve the murder of Mrs. Donaldson, they discover that many of the old attractions at the park are still intact but covered with kudzu vine. Other members of the small town become involved in devious ways. As the boys continue their mission, there are many twists and turns that are unexpected. Do they solve the mystery? Other books by Mary Downing Hahn : Promises to the Dead; The Doll in the Garden; and The Old Willis Place.

Reviewed by: cj

Date read: 11/16/2009

ISBN-10: 054708451X

ISBN-13: 9780547084510

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