Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf
A Year Told Through Stuff
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Publisher Description
Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best friend. Or the thousand other things that can go wrong between September and June. But it looks like it’s shaping up to be that kind of a year!
As readers follow Ginny throughout the story of her year, told entirely through her stuff—notes from classmates, school reports, emails, poems, receipts, and cartoons from her perpetually-in-trouble older brother Harry—a portrait emerges of a funny, loveable, thoughtful girl struggling to be herself…whoever that person turns out to be.
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Two-time Newbery Honor author Holm (Our Only May Amelia) and Castaldi (Miss Polly Has a Dolly) gather an eclectic assemblage of "stuff" to chronicle the intermittently bumpy year of a smart, sassy seventh grader. As the months pass, Ginny tackles an impressive to-do list. Among the entries: "Get a dad" (she does, when her widowed mother remarries); "Get the role of the Sugarplum Fairy" (she doesn't; worse, her former best friend who never returned the sweater she borrowed does); and "Convince mom to let me go see Grampa Joe over Easter break" (he lives in Florida). Ginny also writes poems and IMs friends, and her older brother, Henry, draws a series of comics. The collages that make up the pages here look perky: appealing mixes of objects like bottle-cap linings and candy wrappers, or spreads that combine hair dye boxes, drugstore receipts, salon bills for "color reversal" and a bank check to tell a story. But the inviting format disguises a darker side. Ginny worries, with cause, about Henry, who drinks and drives; resents her new stepfather's ways; and her normally excellent grades take an abrupt nosedive. The everyday tensions of seventh grade show up, too, via the ex best friend and a pesky little brother. The punchy visuals and the sharp, funny details reel in the audience and don't let go. Ages 8-12.
Customer Reviews
Great!
My dad gave me a copy of the book when I first started middle school. I felt so much more confident with the book, and the book itself is amazing! It has its way of telling its story unlike any other book! I recommend it!
Awesome
This book is awesome and amazing!!! Get it and read it!!! I read it in 2hours and i couldnt put it down!
{REALLY A GREAT BOOK TO READ FOR "MIDDLE SCHOOLERS"}
This book seems like it will give all girls and boys a chance to see middle school has its ups and down and what Ginney is going through is a down but.......she can, she will,she did turn it UP side right. Just to let you know i havent read it yet but i will because I AM A SEVENTH GRADER i am not afraid to say soo kiddos to the author{JENNIFER L. HOLM} i would be honored to read this WONDERFUL book of yours i hope you have more like this if you dont well I love for you to do more and i hope your reading this
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