Friend, And . . .: CJ's Notebooks III

CJ's Notebooks #3

by Sherwood Smith

First written when Sherwood Smith was a teen, the series called CJ’s Notebooks feature a gang of girls around thirteen-year-old Queen Clair of Mearsies Heili. The M girls, as they come to be known, prefer their villains silly, their throwing pies gloppy, and their adventures fun. But villains don’t ask first if the girls want to be dragged into dangerous escapades, so they’ve had more than their share.

In this third notebook, the M girls indulge in storytelling between adventures with some new and old friends (and enemies). Plus, there will always be sinister encounters with the Chwahir, particularly when Clair and Jilo meet face to face at last.

And then there is the girls’ favorite, the “Great Pie Fight!”

This is the last of the home adventures before they get dragged into world affairs . . .

231 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 3, 2025

About the author

I am a writer,( Patreon here) but I'm on Goodreads to talk about books, as I've been a passionate reader as long as I've been a writer--since early childhood.

I'm not going to rate books--there are too many variables. I'd rather talk about the reading experience. My 'reviews' of my books are confined to the writing process.

Reviews

[Tiffany · Rating 3 out of 5]

In my quest to read all of the Sartorias-Deles books in chronological order I must slog through the CJ notebooks. This one was new for me. It was good getting Christoph’s origin story (he shows up a lot in the next book), we also get more of Jilo and a bit more from Rel. CJ is just so feral and not a fun person for me to read that it is hard getting through the books. While I see how from a child’s standpoint getting to play all day would be awesome, reading this as an adult makes me cringe at how uneducated the MH girls are.