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Lizzie McGuire #6
New Kid in School
Lizzie can't believe it-gorgeous Ethan Craft wants to have lunch with her! Not only that, she'll get to meet Ethan's new friend, a mysterious kid who's just transferred from Fijji. He's already made a movie with Steven Spielberg, skipped three grades, and taught Britney Spears how to dance! There's only one problem. When Lizzie sees the new kid, she realizes he's just her annoying kid brother, Matt. He got on the wrong school bus, told everyone a pack of lies…and now he's the most popular kid at Lizzie's school! Should Lizzie totally bust him-or sit back and hope that his popularity rubs off on her? Plus, Lizzie gets a job at her favorite hangout, and finds out what it's like to be in over her head.
144 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2003
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June 8, 2016
Maybe I'm just biased, but I had fun reading this one.
March 15, 2025
The first part is one of the few stories where Lizzie and Matts storylines are fully intertwined when he turns up at Lizzies school. In the second part they are made to do a marriage project for school and Miranda is partnered with Ethan ! The second part does show Ethan in quite a poor light and shows is naive teenage boy mind
April 16, 2019
Another book from my Little Free Library that I wanted to read just for the fun of it and now will be returning having read it.
This one is adapted from two TV episodes of the Lizzie McGuire show from Disney. I watched this show when it was on, loved it. I've been a longtime fan of Savage Steve Holland, the animator of Lizzie's internal monologue, so that was my initial reason for tuning in, then I just fell for the characters and the writing.
First up, Lizzie's brother Matt winds up on the wrong bus and spends the day inventing a new life to impress Lizzie's classmates, each claim getting more and more ridiculous, but the kids eat it up, much to Lizzie's chagrin.
The second story, originally written by Nina Bargiel, involves a class project where Lizzie's classmates all pair up to see what married life is like. Lizzie doesn't get the match she wants, so is distracted during most of it, even though she gets lucky enough to match with her best friend. Turns out, her nemesis is out to ruin things for her other best friend, who did happen to get her match choice.
Two fun episodes, worth the read.
This one is adapted from two TV episodes of the Lizzie McGuire show from Disney. I watched this show when it was on, loved it. I've been a longtime fan of Savage Steve Holland, the animator of Lizzie's internal monologue, so that was my initial reason for tuning in, then I just fell for the characters and the writing.
First up, Lizzie's brother Matt winds up on the wrong bus and spends the day inventing a new life to impress Lizzie's classmates, each claim getting more and more ridiculous, but the kids eat it up, much to Lizzie's chagrin.
The second story, originally written by Nina Bargiel, involves a class project where Lizzie's classmates all pair up to see what married life is like. Lizzie doesn't get the match she wants, so is distracted during most of it, even though she gets lucky enough to match with her best friend. Turns out, her nemesis is out to ruin things for her other best friend, who did happen to get her match choice.
Two fun episodes, worth the read.
May 25, 2011
Lizzie finally gets asked to lunch with a guy she has liked for a really long time. He says that he wants to introduce his new friend to her too. His new friend ends up being Lizzie's little brother Matt. Matt gets popular in under a day and Lizzie doesn't like it very much.
This book was just a fun book to read. I recommend it to anyone that loves old Disney shows and likes to listen to brothesr and sisters fight.
This book was just a fun book to read. I recommend it to anyone that loves old Disney shows and likes to listen to brothesr and sisters fight.
December 3, 2024
3.5/5 - While I am not a huge fan of the episode where Matt goes to Lizzie's school, I definitely LOVED the episode where they were pretending to be married for a social studies project. Makes me LOL!
March 9, 2019
I loved these episode's! Especially the second story with the class project!
Very nostalgic for me 🙂
Very nostalgic for me 🙂
May 22, 2025
Read through this in the year of our Lord 2025 mostly because I'm clearing out my books from my childhood & teen years out of my personal library…and also nostalgia.
…I should've let the nostalgia stay exactly as it was. The characters that I'm starting to piece together into tangible people based off of the snippets that we as the readers see in the novelizations…it breaks the rose-tinted cartoon glasses, lemme just say that. Especially my memories of Miranda.
…I should've let the nostalgia stay exactly as it was. The characters that I'm starting to piece together into tangible people based off of the snippets that we as the readers see in the novelizations…it breaks the rose-tinted cartoon glasses, lemme just say that. Especially my memories of Miranda.
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September 25, 2019The book was really great
November 3, 2019
Matt, adiknya Lizzie, tiba-tiba ada di sekolah Lizzie dan jadi anak pindahan baru yang keren - hal yang selama ini diinginkan Lizzie. Gimana bisa yah punya saudara yang bikin jengkel terus?
November 16, 2024
3.7⭐️ cute cute cute heheh the nostalgia vibes are so good and i miss old Disney tv shows and movies.... lizzie mcguire was so good and the vibes omg
November 22, 2019
This book was funny and fun to read!
April 13, 2023
#1 when moms attack! ★★★☆☆
#2 totally crushed ★★★☆☆
#3 lizzie goes wild ★★★★☆
#4 the rise and fall of the kate empire ★★★★☆
#5 picture this ★★★★☆
#6 new kid in school ★★★★☆
#7 broken hearts ★★★★★
#8 a very lizzie christmas ★★★☆☆
#9 just like lizzie ★★★★☆
#10 lizzie loves ethan ★★★★☆
#11 on the job ★★★★☆
#12 head over heels ★★★☆☆
#13 best dressed ★★★★☆
#14 mirror, mirror ★★★★☆
#15 freaked out ★★★★☆
#16 lizzie for president ★★★★☆
#17 oh, brother! ★★★★☆
#18 the importance of being gordo ★★★★☆
#19 all over it! ★★★★☆
#20 the ’rents ★★★★☆
#21 high-five ★★★★☆
the lizzie mcguire movie ★★★☆☆
a very lizzie summer ★★★★☆
a totally hottie summer ★★★☆☆
have i mentioned i’m having a blast with these books?
(novelizations of 1x15 “lizzie’s nightmare” and 1x10 “i do, i don’t”)
#2 totally crushed ★★★☆☆
#3 lizzie goes wild ★★★★☆
#4 the rise and fall of the kate empire ★★★★☆
#5 picture this ★★★★☆
#6 new kid in school ★★★★☆
#7 broken hearts ★★★★★
#8 a very lizzie christmas ★★★☆☆
#9 just like lizzie ★★★★☆
#10 lizzie loves ethan ★★★★☆
#11 on the job ★★★★☆
#12 head over heels ★★★☆☆
#13 best dressed ★★★★☆
#14 mirror, mirror ★★★★☆
#15 freaked out ★★★★☆
#16 lizzie for president ★★★★☆
#17 oh, brother! ★★★★☆
#18 the importance of being gordo ★★★★☆
#19 all over it! ★★★★☆
#20 the ’rents ★★★★☆
#21 high-five ★★★★☆
the lizzie mcguire movie ★★★☆☆
a very lizzie summer ★★★★☆
a totally hottie summer ★★★☆☆
have i mentioned i’m having a blast with these books?
(novelizations of 1x15 “lizzie’s nightmare” and 1x10 “i do, i don’t”)
January 16, 2016
The first story again revolves around Matt causing problems. He catches the wrong schoolbus and ends up at Lizzie's school where he begins telling one lie after another. For some reason the students believe his lies and end up thinking he's really cool and sort of famous.
This interfers, of course, with Lizzie's plan to have lunch with her love-interest, Ethan. Eventually things go too far and Lizzie calls the police who haul Matt out of the school but the other kids think that having that also done is cool.
There is no doubt that Matt has serious behavior problems. He also seems to have absolutely no concern about anyone but himself as it never occurs to him that his parents might be worried about his not showing up at his proper school.
Based on episode 14, Lizzie's Nightmare.
The second story in this book is about a social studies project where the students are "married" and have to work out the details of their lives together, then attend a pretend 20th anniversary reunion and talk about how their marriages worked.
One of Lizzie's friends is paired with Ethan, while Lizzie is paired with Gordo. Things take a bad turn when Lizzie finds out that Kate and Ethan are scheming to embarrass Miranda during the reunion. Lizzie finally manages to warn Miranda after Kate dumps her pretend-husband in front of everyone, and Miranda rises to the challenge.
An interesting story. I can see where such a thing would make an interesting social studies or home economics project in a real school. The whole thing is about working together, both in a marriage and in the school project, and Lizzie spends so much time worrying about Ethan and than about Miranda that she doesn't work as closely with Gordo as she should.
Based on episode 9, "I do, I don't."
This interfers, of course, with Lizzie's plan to have lunch with her love-interest, Ethan. Eventually things go too far and Lizzie calls the police who haul Matt out of the school but the other kids think that having that also done is cool.
There is no doubt that Matt has serious behavior problems. He also seems to have absolutely no concern about anyone but himself as it never occurs to him that his parents might be worried about his not showing up at his proper school.
Based on episode 14, Lizzie's Nightmare.
The second story in this book is about a social studies project where the students are "married" and have to work out the details of their lives together, then attend a pretend 20th anniversary reunion and talk about how their marriages worked.
One of Lizzie's friends is paired with Ethan, while Lizzie is paired with Gordo. Things take a bad turn when Lizzie finds out that Kate and Ethan are scheming to embarrass Miranda during the reunion. Lizzie finally manages to warn Miranda after Kate dumps her pretend-husband in front of everyone, and Miranda rises to the challenge.
An interesting story. I can see where such a thing would make an interesting social studies or home economics project in a real school. The whole thing is about working together, both in a marriage and in the school project, and Lizzie spends so much time worrying about Ethan and than about Miranda that she doesn't work as closely with Gordo as she should.
Based on episode 9, "I do, I don't."
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May 23, 2011“Somebody, wake me up!
Please, anybody, wake me up from this horrible nightmare!”
Lizzie McGuire by: Terri Minsky.
Lizzie’s brother got in trouble and missed his bus and got on the wrong bus and he had to go to Lizzie’s school, he was acting like he was a famous person and did a movie with “steven spielburg”. Lizzie didn’t like the fact that Matt went to her school.
In part two lizzie’s class had to do a project on marriage. Everybody had to have a partner, females had to have a male as their partner. Lizzie was hopeing that she’ll get Ethan Craft the total hottie of the school, no, she got her friend Gordo, and her friend mirandia got Ethan Craft. Lizzie was shocked, each couple had to have a career, Gordo was a trash man, lizzie was a lawyer, mirandia was a house, and Ethan Craft was a doctor.
One day lizzie saw something really bad, she saw Kate and Ethan together, Kate was so popular, she loved Ethan as much as lizzie did.Kate’s husbend was larry the nose picker. On the day of the party Lizzie had to tell mirandia that Kate and Ethan was going to plan to leave Larry and mirandia. Mirandia didn’t believe it because she thought that lizzie was jealous of her just because she was married to Ethan craft. Turns out it was true that Ethan was going to break up with Miranda, later that night the three friends were talking on the phone, Miranda said,” I can’t believe Ethan was going to break up with me, Gordo kept nagging about him being a trash man so Miranda and lizzie played a prank on him, so lizzie and mirandia hung up the phone on him, it’s important to you and I to have good friends around to watch out for your back.
Please, anybody, wake me up from this horrible nightmare!”
Lizzie McGuire by: Terri Minsky.
Lizzie’s brother got in trouble and missed his bus and got on the wrong bus and he had to go to Lizzie’s school, he was acting like he was a famous person and did a movie with “steven spielburg”. Lizzie didn’t like the fact that Matt went to her school.
In part two lizzie’s class had to do a project on marriage. Everybody had to have a partner, females had to have a male as their partner. Lizzie was hopeing that she’ll get Ethan Craft the total hottie of the school, no, she got her friend Gordo, and her friend mirandia got Ethan Craft. Lizzie was shocked, each couple had to have a career, Gordo was a trash man, lizzie was a lawyer, mirandia was a house, and Ethan Craft was a doctor.
One day lizzie saw something really bad, she saw Kate and Ethan together, Kate was so popular, she loved Ethan as much as lizzie did.Kate’s husbend was larry the nose picker. On the day of the party Lizzie had to tell mirandia that Kate and Ethan was going to plan to leave Larry and mirandia. Mirandia didn’t believe it because she thought that lizzie was jealous of her just because she was married to Ethan craft. Turns out it was true that Ethan was going to break up with Miranda, later that night the three friends were talking on the phone, Miranda said,” I can’t believe Ethan was going to break up with me, Gordo kept nagging about him being a trash man so Miranda and lizzie played a prank on him, so lizzie and mirandia hung up the phone on him, it’s important to you and I to have good friends around to watch out for your back.
December 28, 2012
This book is about a teenage girl named Lizzie McGuire who has a crush on a boy at her school named Ethan Craft.Ethan wants to have lunch with her for the first time.But a mysterious kid arrives at that school the same day she is going to have lunch with him.And it turns out it is her brother.She goes crazy when she finds out that it is her brother and he embarrassed her the whole day.And told her crush bad things about her and lies so she looked totally humiliated.Part two of this book is about a marriage project in social studies.And of course Lizzie wanted Ethan to be her husband but instead her husband is her best friend Gordo.And Miranda her other best friend is with her crush.Lizzie went to get a smoothie at Digial Bean when she caught Kate Sanders the queen bee of the school trying to cheat the project and switch husbands to Ethan but they both got caught and humiliated at the same time from their spouse at the marriage reunion at the end of the week.
July 24, 2009
this book was about how matt got on the wrong schoolbus and went to lizzie school and was the new kid but he became popular within a day and his sister still isn't popular and she's been goin there for more than a year she's gettin jealous and he doesn't know wats goin 2 happen when the school calls his mother and the school he suppose to go gave a call 2 his mother. read it it's a good book
August 21, 2020
Easy read, plus I enjoy watching and listening to Hilary Duff. So, this book was very easy to being able to finish reading it. For beginnings, I would totally recommend starting out with this book since it does not have many pages and is not challenging to keep up with
February 10, 2008
It was an easy book for me to reD BUT IT WAS A FUN to read!!!
May 12, 2008
This book is just like the tv show but better because you could read it over and over agian. If you did not under stand something you can reread it.
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January 28, 2009JAR4-McG
February 6, 2009
it was a really funny book that i read
May 26, 2009
I liked that book .it was fun . It was about a new kid in the school. It was a big funny book
June 6, 2009
i love it so bad too!
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October 8, 2009tag'45 lng xa booksale . ! ehehe..
November 1, 2010
This book was about how Matt, (Lizzie's brother) becomes more popular than her on his first day while lizzie been in that school longer. I liked it!
February 10, 2012
Grade 3-5
A Lizzie mqGuire story. Great for kids in a new school enviornment. I would have this book in my reading nook and recommend it to new students.
A Lizzie mqGuire story. Great for kids in a new school enviornment. I would have this book in my reading nook and recommend it to new students.
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September 25, 2013it is about a new kid
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January 1, 2014AR Quiz No. 84891 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP
February 16, 2014
Ok for the school library.
October 21, 2014
love this book
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