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Happily Ever After
Anna Quindlen (1997), 48 pages
Illustrated by James Stevenson
Audience: 2nd Grade - 4th Grade
Kate's a star baseball player, and she also loves to read fairy tales. Even though she hates wearing skirts, one day she's reading her book of fairy tales, and she can't help but notice how lovely the princess looks in the fairy tale illustrations. She whispers to herself that she would like to try being a princess someday, and the next thing she knows, her wish is granted. She is transported to a fairy tale world where she is the princess. The knight is too busy singing love songs to notice the dragon, and Kate's bored with separating the wheat from the chaff. So Kate takes matters into her own hands. Is the world of fairy tales ready for Kate?
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 1/13/2010
ISBN-10: 0670869619
ISBN-13: 9780670869619
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This is the story of 11-year-old Harriet, who keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts about her schoolmates, and the people she observes on her after-school 'spy route'. She is exposed when her notebook falls into the wrong hands, and not everyone is happy. Can you imagine what happens? Read more stories about Harriet in The Long Secret and Sport.
Similar books: Harriet the Spy, Double Agent by Maya Gold and Harriet Spies Again by Helen Ericson
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 3/27/2009
ISBN-10: 0440416795
ISBN-13: 9780440416791
Reader Comments
It is a Funny Book.Commenter: Kayla, grade 2
I think its a funny book because it says [whaddya mean, a mountain?Thats a mountain. From now on thats a mountain.] And thats why I think it is a funny book.
Summer starts on three bad notes for nine-year-old Abby; her best friend leaves for vacation, their new live-in babysitter, Hannah, is as scared and timid as she is, and her aunt sends another box of clothes that won't fit and a broken music box. When the music box starts to play by itself, and Abby and Hannah both see the ghost of an angry girl, things go from boring to frightening. Abby's eleven-year-old brother David makes things worse by playing tricks on Hannah and scaring her with his pet iguana. Hannah shows surprising resilience by refusing to be run off by mysterious happenings, and Abby might even impress her brother when she confronts the ghost. Don't read this one in the dark!
Similar authors: Mary Downing Hahn
Similar books: The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn;
A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner
Reviewed by: Donna
Date read: 8/16/2011
ISBN-10: 0590473557
ISBN-13: 9780590473552
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 3/27/2009
ISBN-10: 0060540249
ISBN-13: 9780060540241
Fourteen-year-old Giannine has been proclaimed king in a virtual reality game, but she will have to solve some problems in the kingdom to claim her crown. Then, she learns that protesters have damaged the gaming equipment, and if she doesn't successfully complete the game she may be killed, in the game as well as in real life!
Awards nominated: Rebecca Caudill Award 2005
Reviewed by: donna
Date read: 12/30/2010
ISBN-10: 0-15-20456
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