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Stella Batts #6
Stella Batts: Something Blue
The Batts family has arrived at a hotel in Los Angeles and everything is all set for Aunt Laura’s wedding weekend. Stella and Penny are going to be getting a new uncle, and a new cousin! Plus, they get to be flower girls, and wear fancy dresses, and walk down the aisle throwing rose petals. It’s going to be perfect--just the way Aunt Laura has imagined it. Just the way Stella has imagined it, too. But sometimes a wedding doesn’t happen the way anyone thinks it will--including the bride. Things are starting to go wrong, and Stella is worried that it’s all her fault!
102 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 1, 2014
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Courtney Sheinmel
41 books259 followersBorn in California. Raised in New York. Went to law school, now write full time. Love: long walks, fresh notebooks, the smell of brownies, pomegranate seeds. Don't love: yogurt, spam (the email kind, and the food kind), deep water, deserted city streets.
Newest book: THE SECRETS OF LOVELACE ACADEMY, co-written with Marie Benedict, available on April 22, 2025.
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Newest book: THE SECRETS OF LOVELACE ACADEMY, co-written with Marie Benedict, available on April 22, 2025.
I love to hear from readers! Email me! Ask a question! I promise to reply.
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October 13, 2020
3.5 stars
January 29, 2019
With the writing of this review my oldest daughter and I have collaborated on reviews of all 10 books in the Stella Batts Series, We are also more than halfway through rereading the series. The first time we read them 2-3 years ago, we alternated pages, and it was a struggled to get her to read. Now She has asked to reread this book, and the whole series and this time around she is reading them to be and ripping through them in two or three sittings. Any book that my daughter is eager to read and wants to read over again is a big hit with me!
It is interesting coming back to these books around three years after first reading them. The first time through it took almost 2 years to make it through the series. And it was a fight to get her to read. This time in under a month we have read half the series, and she asks to read and to read extra chapters once we have hit our minimum daily reading time. But let’s take a look at this specific title.
What can go wrong during a wedding? Well as many of us know from real life a lot. And often not what you think might or are prepared for. That is exactly what happens in this book. Stella’s aunt Laura is getting married, and not only is Stella getting a new Uncle in Rob, but her first cousin in Rob’s daughter Lia who is Stella’s age. But Stella soon finds herself in conflict. She has made a pinky promise to Lia but has a duty to Laura. She knows family is to come first, but Lia is about to become family. And when you combine that with an accident to the wedding cake and the brides dress and things just keep going from bad to worse for Stella. And Penny gets caught up in it all because she wants to stick to Stella’s side.
But even with all the misadventures in this story, Things always have a way of coming together for Stella, and this time things work out in surprising ways. All thanks to the hotel Aoife and the woman it is named after. A wonderful story about family, friends, and trying hard to do the right thing. It also does an amazing job of capturing some of what a child might struggle with being in a parents wedding party as the parent is remarried.
Like the other books in the series there are several illustrations by Jennifer A. Bell scattered throughout the book. There are a few full-page illustrations and many smaller pieces interspersed in the text. My girls love the illustrations, my daughter will be reading along and all of a sudden pause, I will give her the last line she read thinking she has lost her place, and as often as not she has just stopped to look at the illustrations.
Part of what makes this a great series and that we appreciate most is that it is in the genre of realistic fiction. The events and characters could be our family, they could be family or friends from the neighbourhood or school. My kids have many friends with divorced parents, and hear stories about bouncing back and forth between the parents. We always have great discussions after reading a Stella Batts book, not only what do they like about the book, but how it applies to them. And in this book about the impact that has on their friends. And the focus on the family being a team and working through issues together.
A great book in an excellent series! A fantastic middle grade read, and one of our favorites in the series.
Read the review on my blog Book Reviews and More and reviews of other books by Courtney Sheinmel. As well as reviews of the other 9 Stella Batts books.
It is interesting coming back to these books around three years after first reading them. The first time through it took almost 2 years to make it through the series. And it was a fight to get her to read. This time in under a month we have read half the series, and she asks to read and to read extra chapters once we have hit our minimum daily reading time. But let’s take a look at this specific title.
What can go wrong during a wedding? Well as many of us know from real life a lot. And often not what you think might or are prepared for. That is exactly what happens in this book. Stella’s aunt Laura is getting married, and not only is Stella getting a new Uncle in Rob, but her first cousin in Rob’s daughter Lia who is Stella’s age. But Stella soon finds herself in conflict. She has made a pinky promise to Lia but has a duty to Laura. She knows family is to come first, but Lia is about to become family. And when you combine that with an accident to the wedding cake and the brides dress and things just keep going from bad to worse for Stella. And Penny gets caught up in it all because she wants to stick to Stella’s side.
But even with all the misadventures in this story, Things always have a way of coming together for Stella, and this time things work out in surprising ways. All thanks to the hotel Aoife and the woman it is named after. A wonderful story about family, friends, and trying hard to do the right thing. It also does an amazing job of capturing some of what a child might struggle with being in a parents wedding party as the parent is remarried.
Like the other books in the series there are several illustrations by Jennifer A. Bell scattered throughout the book. There are a few full-page illustrations and many smaller pieces interspersed in the text. My girls love the illustrations, my daughter will be reading along and all of a sudden pause, I will give her the last line she read thinking she has lost her place, and as often as not she has just stopped to look at the illustrations.
Part of what makes this a great series and that we appreciate most is that it is in the genre of realistic fiction. The events and characters could be our family, they could be family or friends from the neighbourhood or school. My kids have many friends with divorced parents, and hear stories about bouncing back and forth between the parents. We always have great discussions after reading a Stella Batts book, not only what do they like about the book, but how it applies to them. And in this book about the impact that has on their friends. And the focus on the family being a team and working through issues together.
A great book in an excellent series! A fantastic middle grade read, and one of our favorites in the series.
Read the review on my blog Book Reviews and More and reviews of other books by Courtney Sheinmel. As well as reviews of the other 9 Stella Batts books.
November 14, 2019
Stella's Aunt Laura's wedding is the center point of book six.
Things go wrong throughout but the lesson of love and family comes through.
Things go wrong throughout but the lesson of love and family comes through.
December 24, 2022
I love this movie book it is really fun to read! It's really enjoyable to read to!😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😁😁😁😁😁😃😃😃😄😄😄🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 This review is made by Addy berry
June 20, 2020
Miss 5 has loved listening to the entire Stella Batts series on Audible. She moved onto Stella (thankfully) after going through the entire Wimpy Kid series (who she called 'the moany kid'). The initial hook with the Stella book is that her family have a candy store and Stella often gets to help test the products. Mainly though the books are drama / fiction about her day to day life as she navigates friends, school, and a growing family. What we both like about these books is that Stella is a genuinely nice kid with a kind supportive mum who treats her children well. Miss 5 thought it was exciting that they got to travel and go stay at a family hotel.
Miss 5 and I like to explore different books and authors at the library, sometimes around particular topics or themes. We try to get different ones out every week or so; it's fun for both of us to have the variety and to look at a mix of new & favourite authors.
Miss 5 and I like to explore different books and authors at the library, sometimes around particular topics or themes. We try to get different ones out every week or so; it's fun for both of us to have the variety and to look at a mix of new & favourite authors.
January 17, 2020
167 pgs. Another fun book in the Stella series. This time Stealla's Aunt Laura is getting married in Los Angeles. Stella and Penny can't wait to be flower girls. But when they meet their new cousin Lia, things get complicated. Stella has to figure out what to do while keeping everyone happy. This is not easy. Great realistic fiction that girls will enjoy. Highly recommended for Grades 3-4.
December 4, 2020
Just can't enough of Stella Batts
January 20, 2021
A great book highlighting the torn feelings that can come from joining families and wanting to please everyone, whilst also trying to do the right thing. The inner monologue is very realistic.
September 15, 2025
6 year old review - I love this book
May 24, 2014
The books featuring Stella Batts and her family just keep getting better. Although the other books feature the Batts Confections store run by the family, this one takes the family to Los Angeles for the wedding of Aunt Laura. Stella and her younger sister Penny are thrilled at the luxurious hotel and all of Laura's plans. But the groom's daughter Lia resents her father's new marriage and plans to sabotage it. Stella wants to be nice to Lia, but she also doesn't want to ruin Laura's plans. When things go wrong, they really go wrong. Fans of this series will enjoy seeing whether the wedding--and the marriage--can be saved.
October 13, 2018
Well, I've now read this three times out loud to Megan (and Jared). It's actually a really fun book and perfect for the beginning chapter book reader. It's even entertaining for me to read, and I guess Megan really likes it because she keeps picking it out for me to read. So, I'll go ahead and up it to four stars. It deals with some complicated/conflicted feelings of who to be "generous" to (your only cousin or your only Aunt) which is laid out simply enough for both Megan and Jared to get it.
May 10, 2016
stella has a new cousin and she does not want to go to the wedding so she asked stella if she would join her and stella said yes when the bride was getting ready the women who sprayed her hair sprayed ours and she put the bottle back but then somebody tripped stella and knocked over the bottle spray and left a big blue splothch on the brides dress at the end stella and her new cousin hided and then they heard the lock lock and they were trapped but the bride found thenm and stella and her new cousin explained and saisd sorry and contiued the wedding
August 6, 2014
Another great addition to the Stella Batts series! Stella and her family travel to Los Angeles to participate in the wedding of her Aunt Laura and as you may guess, trouble arises! Read more about the Stella Batts series in my review at: http://www.pageandstorey.blogspot.com
June 20, 2014
Fabulous book for beginning chapter book readers.
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March 17, 2016
Stella went to her aunt's wedding and got stuck in a storage closet
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July 1, 2017Stella is really brave. This book is really good. This series was one of the first and best series I ever read.
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