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Five girls with complicated family lives full of stepparents, half siblings, and custody battles join together and form the Right-Under club. Though they all have pink shirts with the letters RU on the front, the girls refuse to reveal that RU stands for the way their parents make them feel, like rotting leftover meat loaf left right under their noses. With their club motto being, 'We R There 4U.,' the girls take turns revealing a Right-Under problem at their meetings. After considering the problem, the others write down possible solutions which are discussed until the best one remains. Can they trust each other enough to reveal their problems? Will they be able to put the solutions into action-for better or for worse?
Reviewed by: mec
Date read: 11/19/2009
ISBN-13: 9780385733342
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When Rosemary receives ten mysterious packages from her grandmother on her tenth birthday, she is excited. She is so excited that she doesn't heed her grandmother's warning to wait to open the last package, and she is whisked back in time to Germany in 1870. Will she ever make it home? What will happen when she meets her great-great-great grandmother Rosemarie as a girl her own age? Will she be able to decode a mysterious postcard Rosemarie receives?
Book Series: The Hourglass Adventures
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 2/26/2010
ISBN-10: 1890817554
ISBN-13: 9781890817558
Disappointed in the poor, European-immigrant ancestors she discovers during a class project to research family roots, Rosy invents a clan of royal relatives.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 3/27/2009
ISBN-10: 0316327212
ISBN-13: 9780316327213
Roxie and the Hooligans
Phyllis Naylor (2007), 128 pages
Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger
Audience: 3rd Grade - 5th Grade
Roxie Warbler, the niece of a famous explorer, follows Uncle Dangerfoot's advice on how to survive any crisis. Read this book to see how she survives being stranded on an island with a gang of school bullies, and a pair of murderous bank robbers.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 3/27/2009
ISBN-10: 1416902449
ISBN-13: 9781416902447
Ruby's Wish
Shirin Yim Bridges (2002), 36 pages
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Audience: Preschool - 4th Grade
In the story 'Ruby's Wish' by Shirin Yim Bridges, we get a small glimpse into the Chinese culture through the eyes of a little girl who loved the color red. Ruby always dressed in red because in China, red is the color of celebration. She lived in the house that Grandfather built. It was a huge home because he had many wives, who had many sons, who had many children. So at one time, Grandfather's house overflowed with the laughter of over 100 children. He loved and cared for them all. He even noticed little Ruby's thirst for knowledge and was impressed at how hard she worked on her lessons. Ruby was permitted to continue in school while most Chinese girls left the schoolroom to learn how to keep house. But Ruby knew that the day would come when she would have to marry and end her dreams of going to the University. But Grandfather had other plans for Ruby. His plans were all wrapped up in the color red. Read this beautifully illustrated story to see if Ruby finally gets her wish.
Similar authors: Andrea Cheng; Yong Chen
Similar books: Sivu's Six Wishes : a Taoist Tale by Jude Daly;
Orange Peel's Pocket by Rose A. Lewis;
The Umbrella Queen by Shirin Yim Bridges
Reviewed by: mb
Date read: 7/1/2011
ISBN-10: 0811834905
ISBN-13: 9780811834902
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