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Sarabeth #1
Silver
My mother is determined that I will have a wonderful life -- better than her own. I guess she can't imagine what it is like for me, a kid from a trailer park, to transfer to the junior high school where all the rich kids go -- the kind of kids who come from homes where my mother works as a cleaning woman.... But somehow, miraculously, I've become part of a little clique of pretty and popular girls who have everything money can buy. And sometimes they also have secrets in their lives more painful than anything I've ever known.
208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Norma Fox Mazer
58 books104 followersNorma Fox Mazer was an American author and teacher, best known for her books for children and young adults.
She was born in New York City but grew up in Glens Falls, New York, with parents Michael and Jean Garlan Fox. Mazer graduated from Glens Falls High School, then went to Antioch College, where she met Harry Mazer, whom she married in 1950; they have four children, one of whom, Anne Mazer, is also a writer. She also studied at Syracuse University.
New York Times Book Review contributor Ruth I. Gordon wrote that Mazer "has the skill to reveal the human qualities in both ordinary and extraordinary situations as young people mature....it would be a shame to limit their reading to young people, since they can show an adult reader much about the sometimes painful rite of adolescent passage into adulthood."
Among the honors Mazer earned for her writing were a National Book Award nomination in 1973, an American Library Association Notable Book citation in 1976, inclusion on the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year list in 1976, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1978, an Edgar Award in 1982, German Children's Literature prizes in 1982 and 1989, and a Newbery Medal in 1988.
Mazer taught in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program at Vermont College.
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She was born in New York City but grew up in Glens Falls, New York, with parents Michael and Jean Garlan Fox. Mazer graduated from Glens Falls High School, then went to Antioch College, where she met Harry Mazer, whom she married in 1950; they have four children, one of whom, Anne Mazer, is also a writer. She also studied at Syracuse University.
New York Times Book Review contributor Ruth I. Gordon wrote that Mazer "has the skill to reveal the human qualities in both ordinary and extraordinary situations as young people mature....it would be a shame to limit their reading to young people, since they can show an adult reader much about the sometimes painful rite of adolescent passage into adulthood."
Among the honors Mazer earned for her writing were a National Book Award nomination in 1973, an American Library Association Notable Book citation in 1976, inclusion on the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year list in 1976, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1978, an Edgar Award in 1982, German Children's Literature prizes in 1982 and 1989, and a Newbery Medal in 1988.
Mazer taught in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program at Vermont College.
For more information, please see http://www.answers.com/topic/norma-fo...
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July 27, 2008
You're wish is my command, Laurel.
I went to my psychologist appointment yesterday. And while I was in the middle of crying about being ugly and weird, my lady doctor says "And who does that remind you of, hmmm?" And I say "Uhhh, I dont know?"
And she says, "Sounds like your mother to me."
Fuck, right?
I know my relationship with my parents is kind of bizarre, but my psychologist made me realize something that I can't stop thinking about.
90% of the time mother does not acknowledge my presence. I do the same to her (learned behavior?). Just today I came home this afternoon after being gone all day and my mom is sitting on the couch. I walk into the room and she doesn't even look my way.
I am actually sitting in the same room with her as I write this and we haven't said a word to each other. Is this normal? Probably not.
Last summer I stopped by my mom's house (I now live here, last summer I did not) and she was standing in the kitchen talking to some repairman. (About something lame, I'm sure)
My mom can be super weird and manic and waaaay over enthusiastic sometimes.
So, I walk into the kitchen and my mom says to the repair man,(imagine someone smiling all crazy and speaking with frantic excitment)
"This loooovely lady right here is my daughter, and she is veeeerrrry close to graduating from college!!! Aren't you? She is sooo smart, she has a photographic memory!"
My eyes bugged out, humiliation ran down my face and I said "Mom, I have 12 credits at community college and I haven't attended school in almost 5 years."
And her face falls and she says "Oh."
The moral of the story: My mother has not paid attention to me for a large portion of my life.
Oh and as far as the photgraphic memory goes, that is false information as well.
Where does she get this information???
I first read this book, Silver, when I around 11. I re-read it every few years.
I loved it because it was about a girl like me living the life I wanted.
Sarabether Silver lives in a trailerpark with her mom and cats. Her mom is a maid for some rich folks and they have trouble making ends meet. Even though money is tight, they make it work. Mom has a nice guy boyfriend named Leo and a best friend that lives a few trailers away. Then Sarabeth is sent to begin juniorhigh at a school where all the rich kids go. Drama ensues, lessons are learned. yadda yadda You can just imagine the rest. Or read it. Whatever.
So in my little head, that was who I wanted to be. But the only thing me and the main character had in common was living in a trailerpark.
I always imagined Sarabeth as thin and pretty in that delicate pretty way. I wanted Leo to be my step-dad and I wanted my actual step-dad , who was crackhead that sold all of our stuff and screamed and screamed and screamed and told me I was a bitch, would disappear.
I wanted my mom to be normal and have friends and not lie in bed on the weekends and use food and teenybopper magazines as a substitute for the love she was not capable of providing.
I am still totally amazed when I go to someones house and everyone sits down and eats dinner together and has conversations.
So, now that you know way too much about the origin of my psychological development, I will leave you with something I wrote last year about me and my mom:
One summer afternoon with my mom we went to a roadside stand and bought corn and peaches. We went home and sat with our legs dangling over the edge of the open backdoor to our trailer. The backdoor we didn't use because it had no steps. And we ate our peaches. Imagine eating the best tasting peach you ever had. Just imagine sitting next to your mother, both of your legs dangling out the backdoor with no stairwell. Imagine eating your perfect tasting peach on a perfect summer early evening. Then imagine seeing a rainbow that was meant just for you and your mom. (There really was a rainbow that day.) Imagine looking at your mother. Your beautiful mother with her perfect delicate lady-like hands holding the best tasting peach she will ever eat. She looks at you and you both know this is as good as it will ever get. And you want to eat another peach and then another.
Because years from now, when you are all grown, your mother will say "Remember that time when we sat out in the backdoor of the trailer and ate those peaches?" And you'll say "Yeah, those were the best."
And you remember eating them whole, leaving only the hard, brain-like pit behind.
I went to my psychologist appointment yesterday. And while I was in the middle of crying about being ugly and weird, my lady doctor says "And who does that remind you of, hmmm?" And I say "Uhhh, I dont know?"
And she says, "Sounds like your mother to me."
Fuck, right?
I know my relationship with my parents is kind of bizarre, but my psychologist made me realize something that I can't stop thinking about.
90% of the time mother does not acknowledge my presence. I do the same to her (learned behavior?). Just today I came home this afternoon after being gone all day and my mom is sitting on the couch. I walk into the room and she doesn't even look my way.
I am actually sitting in the same room with her as I write this and we haven't said a word to each other. Is this normal? Probably not.
Last summer I stopped by my mom's house (I now live here, last summer I did not) and she was standing in the kitchen talking to some repairman. (About something lame, I'm sure)
My mom can be super weird and manic and waaaay over enthusiastic sometimes.
So, I walk into the kitchen and my mom says to the repair man,(imagine someone smiling all crazy and speaking with frantic excitment)
"This loooovely lady right here is my daughter, and she is veeeerrrry close to graduating from college!!! Aren't you? She is sooo smart, she has a photographic memory!"
My eyes bugged out, humiliation ran down my face and I said "Mom, I have 12 credits at community college and I haven't attended school in almost 5 years."
And her face falls and she says "Oh."
The moral of the story: My mother has not paid attention to me for a large portion of my life.
Oh and as far as the photgraphic memory goes, that is false information as well.
Where does she get this information???
I first read this book, Silver, when I around 11. I re-read it every few years.
I loved it because it was about a girl like me living the life I wanted.
Sarabether Silver lives in a trailerpark with her mom and cats. Her mom is a maid for some rich folks and they have trouble making ends meet. Even though money is tight, they make it work. Mom has a nice guy boyfriend named Leo and a best friend that lives a few trailers away. Then Sarabeth is sent to begin juniorhigh at a school where all the rich kids go. Drama ensues, lessons are learned. yadda yadda You can just imagine the rest. Or read it. Whatever.
So in my little head, that was who I wanted to be. But the only thing me and the main character had in common was living in a trailerpark.
I always imagined Sarabeth as thin and pretty in that delicate pretty way. I wanted Leo to be my step-dad and I wanted my actual step-dad , who was crackhead that sold all of our stuff and screamed and screamed and screamed and told me I was a bitch, would disappear.
I wanted my mom to be normal and have friends and not lie in bed on the weekends and use food and teenybopper magazines as a substitute for the love she was not capable of providing.
I am still totally amazed when I go to someones house and everyone sits down and eats dinner together and has conversations.
So, now that you know way too much about the origin of my psychological development, I will leave you with something I wrote last year about me and my mom:
One summer afternoon with my mom we went to a roadside stand and bought corn and peaches. We went home and sat with our legs dangling over the edge of the open backdoor to our trailer. The backdoor we didn't use because it had no steps. And we ate our peaches. Imagine eating the best tasting peach you ever had. Just imagine sitting next to your mother, both of your legs dangling out the backdoor with no stairwell. Imagine eating your perfect tasting peach on a perfect summer early evening. Then imagine seeing a rainbow that was meant just for you and your mom. (There really was a rainbow that day.) Imagine looking at your mother. Your beautiful mother with her perfect delicate lady-like hands holding the best tasting peach she will ever eat. She looks at you and you both know this is as good as it will ever get. And you want to eat another peach and then another.
Because years from now, when you are all grown, your mother will say "Remember that time when we sat out in the backdoor of the trailer and ate those peaches?" And you'll say "Yeah, those were the best."
And you remember eating them whole, leaving only the hard, brain-like pit behind.
August 16, 2024
I first read a novel by Mazer just a few months ago when I read Babyface. I loved Mazer's style, how she treated the characters with respect, how everything had such poignancy but no angst. I was happy I had picked up two books by her at the used bookstore, so I could pretty much guarantee another enjoyable read. Sure enough, I liked Silver even more than I liked Babyface.
Silver is a great narrator. She is funny and thoughtful and interesting. She's fourteen and cares about boys and friends but also about her mother and her mother's boyfriend and her mother's best friend. She cares about making money to help her mother out with bills, and she cares about deeper issues than who's going to the dance with whom. She has a developed personality, and she feels like someone I could actually meet in real life. The conflicts are everyday life conflicts, but there is one that revolves around a much more serious issue, a secret that one of Silver's friends at her new school shares with just her, at first. It takes up a good chunk of the second half of the novel, but the other conflicts are still present and important. I was thinking that Silver living in a trailer park but transferring to a wealthy school district and having rich friends would be too cliche, but it's deeper than that, and although some of those issues do come to the surface due to the school situation, that's not the main concern of the book.
The only thing I didn't care for about the book is the ending. In one way, I understand why Mazer ends it the way she does because it involves the girls standing up to someone who did one of them wrong, something they struggled to do with the bigger conflict of the novel, but in another way, it feels very abrupt and focused on one conflict rather than working with the complexity the entire novel contains.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book, and I was happy to see that there is a "Silver #2" out there. I will definitely be adding that to my list and reading it eventually. I'd love to know more about Silver and what happens next for her. I highly recommend this book to any reader interested in contemporary fiction. It's a good example of how stories shouldn't be geared towards specific ages (downside of capitalism and the need for marketing) because this story, though "about" a 14-year-old girl, is really just a human story that anyone can appreciate, connect to, and learn from.
Side notes: I love the way Mazer handles the issue of . I also love that Silver's name is actually Sarabeth Silver, but her new friends call her Silver, and it makes her feel special. There are great connotations to her name being the title of the novel and the meaning behind the "nickname."
Silver is a great narrator. She is funny and thoughtful and interesting. She's fourteen and cares about boys and friends but also about her mother and her mother's boyfriend and her mother's best friend. She cares about making money to help her mother out with bills, and she cares about deeper issues than who's going to the dance with whom. She has a developed personality, and she feels like someone I could actually meet in real life. The conflicts are everyday life conflicts, but there is one that revolves around a much more serious issue, a secret that one of Silver's friends at her new school shares with just her, at first. It takes up a good chunk of the second half of the novel, but the other conflicts are still present and important. I was thinking that Silver living in a trailer park but transferring to a wealthy school district and having rich friends would be too cliche, but it's deeper than that, and although some of those issues do come to the surface due to the school situation, that's not the main concern of the book.
The only thing I didn't care for about the book is the ending. In one way, I understand why Mazer ends it the way she does because it involves the girls standing up to someone who did one of them wrong, something they struggled to do with the bigger conflict of the novel, but in another way, it feels very abrupt and focused on one conflict rather than working with the complexity the entire novel contains.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book, and I was happy to see that there is a "Silver #2" out there. I will definitely be adding that to my list and reading it eventually. I'd love to know more about Silver and what happens next for her. I highly recommend this book to any reader interested in contemporary fiction. It's a good example of how stories shouldn't be geared towards specific ages (downside of capitalism and the need for marketing) because this story, though "about" a 14-year-old girl, is really just a human story that anyone can appreciate, connect to, and learn from.
Side notes: I love the way Mazer handles the issue of . I also love that Silver's name is actually Sarabeth Silver, but her new friends call her Silver, and it makes her feel special. There are great connotations to her name being the title of the novel and the meaning behind the "nickname."
December 23, 2018
I can't rate this book without bias because it's a childhood favorite. When I was 10 years old I owned only a handful of books & this was one of them, thus I read it dozens of times. I recently came across a copy & just had to get it as my old one was lost over the years. Reading it again, these many years later, was quite an experience. It was a quick read & quite good for its time, but if I didn't have a history with it I would have given it 3 stars. I liked it, sure, but as a child I loved it so. I don't think I'll re-read all my childhood favorites. Aside from Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Outsiders & the Narnia Chronicles, all of which I can still say I love today, I can't possibly enjoy those teeny bopper Sweet Valley High books of my youth now. This one though I don't regret revisiting.
September 21, 2007
One of the first YA books I read after becoming a YA librarian, by one of my favorite childhood authors (who was one of the reasons I became a YA librarian--I once got to tell that to Mazer at a Books for the Teenage reception at Donnell library in NYC).
February 12, 2016
Reread (for the 10,000th time), November 2015:
R.I.P. Aunt Becky. I think of you every time I read this book. I love it so much still, so thanks for buying it for me :)
Original review from June 2009:
I love this book. My Aunt Becky bought it for me at a used bookstore years and years ago, and I used to read it over and over. Somewhere along the way, I lost my copy or gave it away for some other girl to enjoy. I finally found a copy at a library book sale recently and I was ECSTATIC. I read through it quickly and still love it. Sarabeth Silver is one of my favorite book characters of all time--incredibly honest.
Ugh, I love young adult novels, and this is one of the reasons why.
R.I.P. Aunt Becky. I think of you every time I read this book. I love it so much still, so thanks for buying it for me :)
Original review from June 2009:
I love this book. My Aunt Becky bought it for me at a used bookstore years and years ago, and I used to read it over and over. Somewhere along the way, I lost my copy or gave it away for some other girl to enjoy. I finally found a copy at a library book sale recently and I was ECSTATIC. I read through it quickly and still love it. Sarabeth Silver is one of my favorite book characters of all time--incredibly honest.
Ugh, I love young adult novels, and this is one of the reasons why.
January 6, 2022
Heavy!
I got to go in blind thankfully, although all the foreshadowing is there even in the various blurbs so it wasn’t a stretch. I really loved how much attention was paid to Sarabeth’s life and surroundings. I feel like sometimes vintage YA characters are superficial and don’t seem rooted in reality.
Loved:
Mark the Pillow
Art the Pillow
The big fight at the sleepover over whether to go for justice or be left alone
Descriptions of Sarabeth’s trailer in comparison with her friends’ homes
Patty’s disaffected airs as a defense mechanism
The sick burn on Mark Emelsky at the end!
I got to go in blind thankfully, although all the foreshadowing is there even in the various blurbs so it wasn’t a stretch. I really loved how much attention was paid to Sarabeth’s life and surroundings. I feel like sometimes vintage YA characters are superficial and don’t seem rooted in reality.
Loved:
Mark the Pillow
Art the Pillow
The big fight at the sleepover over whether to go for justice or be left alone
Descriptions of Sarabeth’s trailer in comparison with her friends’ homes
Patty’s disaffected airs as a defense mechanism
The sick burn on Mark Emelsky at the end!
September 4, 2010
My best friend had talked for ages about this book she'd read over and over as a kid and loved, despite its dark subject matter. Last weekend, our powers combined, we FINALLY solved this mystery, and I ordered it for her (since thanks to my Amazon Prime membership I get free shipping) so of course I couldn't let it leave my apartment without my having read it first.
And I'm really glad I did, even though, geez, YA from the 1990s is so crazy different from YA now. Seriously, it's just written so differently, and stuff that flew then just never would now.
I love how class and gender issues were tackled, on top of the Big Issue of this book.
Also I love fictional kitties. Obviously.
(read: 129)
And I'm really glad I did, even though, geez, YA from the 1990s is so crazy different from YA now. Seriously, it's just written so differently, and stuff that flew then just never would now.
I love how class and gender issues were tackled, on top of the Big Issue of this book.
Also I love fictional kitties. Obviously.
(read: 129)
November 14, 2024
I am still angry about the second book
August 13, 2016
a great book that I know was awesome when I read it as a teenager. it was still good and that says a Lot!
March 20, 2020
Silver is a book written by Norma Fox Mazer with a lexile level of 520L. The book is about a teen girl who lives in a trailer park and moves to a school full of rich kids and becomes friends with Grant, Patty, Asa, and Jennifer, who she finds out are not as perfect as they seem on the outside.
I think the main theme of the book is not to judge people by how they look or by how much money they have.This theme is shown by how Sarabeth immediately thought that all the people at her new school were going to be stuck up and snotty because they were all rich, and how those kids were so disgusted and surprised when she told them she lived in a trailer. Sarabeth discovers that there is much more to her friends than their money and that they all have problems of their own that they have to deal with. Patty learns that there is more to a family then how big their house is or how much money they have when she has to live with Sarabeth for a while. ‘“You live in a trailer?” “Yes.” You really do?” She looked horrified.’(p. 23) This is an example of one of the girls from her school finding out that she didn’t live in a normal house and being surprised.
This book was an easy read, it didn’t have many big words that kids wouldn’t understand. I didn’t like the ending very much because it was a cliffhanger and the author could have done much more with it. I don’t think it was that great of a book but it would be recommended to any age group. There really wasn’t anything special about this book and it was honestly kind of boring to read. I do not recommend this book to people who like interesting or action packed books.
I think the main theme of the book is not to judge people by how they look or by how much money they have.This theme is shown by how Sarabeth immediately thought that all the people at her new school were going to be stuck up and snotty because they were all rich, and how those kids were so disgusted and surprised when she told them she lived in a trailer. Sarabeth discovers that there is much more to her friends than their money and that they all have problems of their own that they have to deal with. Patty learns that there is more to a family then how big their house is or how much money they have when she has to live with Sarabeth for a while. ‘“You live in a trailer?” “Yes.” You really do?” She looked horrified.’(p. 23) This is an example of one of the girls from her school finding out that she didn’t live in a normal house and being surprised.
This book was an easy read, it didn’t have many big words that kids wouldn’t understand. I didn’t like the ending very much because it was a cliffhanger and the author could have done much more with it. I don’t think it was that great of a book but it would be recommended to any age group. There really wasn’t anything special about this book and it was honestly kind of boring to read. I do not recommend this book to people who like interesting or action packed books.
November 12, 2020
Sarabeth Silver, who lives in a trailer park, just started at a new school where all the rich kids go. Somehow she manages to join a group of girls who seem pretty and popular, but soon discovers that being rich doesn't solve all problems when one of the girls reveals a dark secret.
This was an oddly light book about (that's what the big secret was, and why I bought this at a library book sale. I must know all the secrets!). At first I assumed it would be Grant with the secret, but ended up being one of the other girls. Because it wasn't Sarabeth herself who had the secret, it was more about how Sarabeth looks at her life through her new friends' eyes and how she has a great mom with a boyfriend who is really cool. The way the is framed, nothing is specific and it doesn't sound like anything too serious, but definitely something not right is happening, which softens the seriousness of the secret quite a bit. I'm not sure that, as a teen, I would have really known what was going on (those were different times...). The whole subplot with Mark seemed a bit unnecessary, especially in the way she treated him in the end - she didn't seem to pick up on him being uninterested in her.
This was an oddly light book about (that's what the big secret was, and why I bought this at a library book sale. I must know all the secrets!). At first I assumed it would be Grant with the secret, but ended up being one of the other girls. Because it wasn't Sarabeth herself who had the secret, it was more about how Sarabeth looks at her life through her new friends' eyes and how she has a great mom with a boyfriend who is really cool. The way the is framed, nothing is specific and it doesn't sound like anything too serious, but definitely something not right is happening, which softens the seriousness of the secret quite a bit. I'm not sure that, as a teen, I would have really known what was going on (those were different times...). The whole subplot with Mark seemed a bit unnecessary, especially in the way she treated him in the end - she didn't seem to pick up on him being uninterested in her.
September 14, 2024
I can't remember if I ever read this when I was a teenager. To be fair, when I was a teenager, our local library did not have much in the way of young adult books, save for Sweet Valley High, which I found to be very drippy and cliched. So there's a good chance I never read this book when I was a kid.
So when I found it at Goodwill, I thought I'd try reading it. True, I'm decades past the young adult age this is aimed at, but some of the themes still hold true, mostly don't judge a book by its cover. I thought this would be a little more "mean girl" oriented as well, for I know that mean girls exist at any age...they don't grow old, they just grow nastier. But there wasn't much of that theme in here, save for minor bits here and there.
Most of all, it's just boring, hence the one star. There's a secret that one of the girls is hiding and she confides it in Sarabeth, but for drama it kind of falls flat. Maybe this would appeal to a teenager, but it didn't to my old and jaded ass.
So when I found it at Goodwill, I thought I'd try reading it. True, I'm decades past the young adult age this is aimed at, but some of the themes still hold true, mostly don't judge a book by its cover. I thought this would be a little more "mean girl" oriented as well, for I know that mean girls exist at any age...they don't grow old, they just grow nastier. But there wasn't much of that theme in here, save for minor bits here and there.
Most of all, it's just boring, hence the one star. There's a secret that one of the girls is hiding and she confides it in Sarabeth, but for drama it kind of falls flat. Maybe this would appeal to a teenager, but it didn't to my old and jaded ass.
July 1, 2024
This young reader's chapter book is an engaging story, though dated (written in 1988), about a young teen girl's transition to a new school. She and her mom live in a trailer park and struggle to make ends meet, but a recent move within the trailer park puts Sarabeth in a new school district - a much wealthier one. The book details her struggle to fit in, and when she finally does, what she discovers about "rich kids" and their lives. She learns that everyone, even the wealthy, have their own share of problems, sometimes ones that eclipse her own. The story deals well with the problem of sexual abuse. It shows how most often sexual abuse occurs within family, from the people least suspected.
December 6, 2018
I read this in high school and only recently tracked a copy down. I remember missing P.E again and having to sit in the rickety, cold storage hut while everyone ran outside. I had taken this out of the library and always had a book on hand.
Reading this as an adult makes you realize just how clever Fox Mazer's writing is. She weaves these characters that feel so real, and pulls you into their life. Each of Sarabeth's friends are distinct, her own struggles to fit in are still very resonant today.
Reading this as an adult makes you realize just how clever Fox Mazer's writing is. She weaves these characters that feel so real, and pulls you into their life. Each of Sarabeth's friends are distinct, her own struggles to fit in are still very resonant today.
March 17, 2020
(I'm rating solely on memory of me as a sixth grader in '96 or so. I recently (2020) read another one of Fox Mazer's books and added this one without a rating or approximate date. May re-read to edit score/review but for now 👍👍)
August 6, 2017
Very good novel, highlighting the struggle of growing up and finding new friends. Amazing Y.A. fiction
August 5, 2018
Re-reading a book from my junior high days. Still good, well written, I could easily picture the whole story.
August 6, 2019
One of my favorite books from childhood about growing up poor and making do. Knowing that money doesn't erase problems.
February 17, 2020
This was the first book I read in 8th grade. I loved it. So glad I found it again. Will definitely be reading it again.
November 25, 2020
As good as one of those ABC after school specials from the 80s.
January 14, 2022
Probably a 4.3 for me. At times funny, at times gutting. Norma Fox-Mazer is definitely a good author to try if you've run out of Blumes.
April 17, 2022
This was definitely on my one top five list as a kid. I was obsessed with it.
September 19, 2022
It’s a coming of age book!! And these girls all have issues! It’s about not fitting in but then fitting in and finding friendship!
July 5, 2024
Can't really remember what it was about. It's been so many years since I read it, but this was the first book I ever read that I actually liked. Really need to add it to my library.
July 27, 2025
Reread in 2025 after being a childhood favourite book from when I was around 12-13. I’m not the target demographic anymore but the 5 stars is for my rating when I first read it.
September 12, 2025
this was my favourite book when I was like 12
October 15, 2025
3.5 stars. Read this for a friend. Enjoyable, light read about heavy subjects. Well done.
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