*Chapter book, realistic and contemporary fiction *Third-grade girl as main character *Rating: I’m a huge fan of Sara Pennypacker and the Clementine series. This is book four, and it is as cute as ever. If you are a pet lover, it can be a little sad in the middle–but happy endings all around (even for [...]
November 3, 2011 in Book Club Possibility, Chapter Books, character education, Elementary Educators, Frazee, Marla, Making Personal Connections, Pennypacker, Sara, Reading Skills
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*Chapter book for second to fourth graders, realistic contemporary *Third-grade girl as main character *Rating: Clementine’s Letter is laugh-out-loud funny while being touching and so true to life at the same time! Short, short summary: Clementine is back and in third grade. She is finally “in sync” with her teacher, Mr. D’Matz (be careful how [...]
December 1, 2009 in Chapter Books, Elementary Educators, Frazee, Marla, Making Personal Connections, Making Predictions, Pennypacker, Sara, Reading Skills, Tuesday Tales
Tags: Chapter Books, Clementine's Letter, Marla Frazee, reading response journals, Realistic fiction, Sara Pennypacker, Third grade books | No Comments »
Two weeks ago, I talked about Judy Blume’s classic Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret and about the recent controversy over book covers. As you can see, today’s Timeless Thursday book Ramona Quimby, Age 8 also has a new, modern book cover, but that’s not what I’m here to blog about today. Beverly Cleary [...]
September 11, 2009 in Chapter Books, Cleary, Beverly, Elementary Educators, Making Personal Connections, Middle Grade Novel, Patron, Susan, Pennypacker, Sara, Timeless Thursdays
Tags: Beverly Cleary, classic books for kids, Clementine, Lucky, Ramona Quimby Age 8, Ramona Quimby series, Sara Pennypacker, Susan Patron | No Comments »
reviewed by Margo Dill, www.margodill.com, margodll@aol.com Chapter Book (ages 7-10) Third-grade girl, main character Rating: Laugh out loud funny! Short, short summary: Clementine is the funniest third-grader I know, but she’s not having a very good week in her debut novel. Maybe she shouldn’t have cut Margaret’s hair and then drawn it back on with [...]
August 28, 2008 in Chapter Books, Frazee, Marla, Pennypacker, Sara
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