E, My Name Is Emily

My Name Is #5

by Norma Fox Mazer

Struggling with her parents' divorce and her father's remarriage, Emily thinks she is at the end of her rope when her mother starts dating an ugly guy and a twelve-year-old boy starts following her around. Reissue.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1991

About the author

Norma 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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Reviews

[Adriana · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was such a weird book. It's an older story but that doesn't excuse it's strangeness. It was also poorly written. I don't understand why Robertson needed to be taught a lesson that way in the end. I know the characters were middle schoolers but they sounded like they were ten. I just don't get this book...

[Isabella Potts · Rating 5 out of 5]

My opinion on the book E, My Name is Emily is that it is really good. When I first starting reading it I couldn’t put the book down. It was that good that my face was buried into it will my teacher was talking and teaching. It was the best book I read all year. This book is so wonderful and I think that you should read it too.

[Caroline · Rating 4 out of 5]

This tells the "B my name is Bunny" story from the other side, and it's interesting to read even if I don't like Emily as much. She's probably the more "normal" and it's easy to relate with her frustrations at Bunny, though it's a bit painful at times. But overall a charming book.