E, My Name Is Emily

My Name Is #5

by Norma Fox Mazer

Emily just wants everything to be perfect—is that too much to ask? When Emily’s parents got divorced two years ago, her dad still made time to see her and the twins as much as possible. But since he moved to Chicago with Marcia, his phone calls have started getting less and less frequent and it feels like he might as well live at the North Pole. And if that weren’t bad enough, her mom seems ready to start a new family, too!   Emily knows that it’s impossible to get her parents back together, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready for her mom to start dating—and she’s ready to put a stop to it. So, in effort to sabotage her mom’s new relationship, Emily pretends to go out with a boy at school who she’s not even sure she likes. Now, she’s going to have to deal with two unwanted relationships!

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction

133 pages, Kindle Edition

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.