Mallory Goes Green!

Mallory McDonald #13

by Laurie B. Friedman, Jennifer Kalis (Illustrator)

Mallory McDonald is going green! As an official member of the Fern Falls Elementary Environmental Committee, Mallory is super excited to make her school and home more environmentally friendly. She's even selected to be class representative for the all-school Green Fair. But the minute Mallory goes green, everything goes wrong. No one wants her "expert" opinion on how to help the environment. Her classmates don't want to participate in the Green Fair project she's created. And worst of all, by the time the fair rolls around, many of them aren't even speaking to Mallory. Can Mallory find a way to save the planet and her friendships?

Genres: Childrens, Friendship, Realistic Fiction

159 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2010

About the author

Laurie Friedman is the author and ghostwriter of over 300 award-winning picture books, easy readers, chapter books, and novels for young readers including the bestselling Mallory McDonald series, the Moose the Dog easy reader series, the Camp Creepy Lake and Wendy & Willow chapter books, and may picture books including Cows in the House and Love, Ruby Valentine.

Reviews

[Cathe Fein Olson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mallory takes her elementary school's mission to go green seriously--maybe a little too seriously as she soon alienates her classmates, friends, and family. She learns that if she really wants to help others to go green, she will have to work with them rather than tell them what they must do. Fun, easy chapter book with a good message for 2nd to 4th graders.

[Sis3 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny story of a 4th grader who tries to convince everyone to think (and vote) the same way she does about a classroom project. Maggie might like this one? Probably simple for her but good lesson about LISTENING and best friends.

[Nouara Y. · Rating 5 out of 5]

1/14/13

Mallory Goes Green is a really good book in my opinion, it's informational and inspiring to! It's informational because its all about recycling and tips how to recycle. But, it's inspiring because it tells you how it's good to recycle and at the end it tells you a bunch of ideas to recycle, it even made me recycle!

I have many connections to Mallory (the main character) because many times people have not listened to me, or my ideas. Also because I have made something I really liked and I thought everyone else would too, but know one did except me. Then after all I liked their ideas better than my own.

Mallory Goes Green is a really good book just like the others in the series. I read it and I think you should too... after you read the rest of the series. My friend recommended the first book to me and I totally just loved it, so I read the rest of the series nd so far, I have about 3 or 4 more books to red out of the 15.

12/13/12

The book I just started is called Mallory Goes Green by Laurie B. Friedman. So far in my book, Mallory has started a new year and has just been selected to be in charge of a going green project in her class.


The part I like the most so far is when Mallory gets selected to be in charge. I like that part because I can predict that nothing is going to go right... or her way. I also like that this book tells you about and how to go green.


I can kind of relate to this because at my old school, my group and I made our own game board creations and mine got picked. I thought it was going to go great, but it got ruined because my group colored things they weren't supposed to and they were goofing off. And I can kind of predict that the story ends well like they all do. I can relate to that because when my board got done, even though it was sloppy, it was still the most popular game in the class.

[Becky · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mallory's school decides to become more eco-friendly, and Mallory is chosen to represent her class on the environmental committee. Each class needs a project to present at the Green Fair. Mallory's idea is to make t-shirts to sell to make money for an environmental charity, and she's certain everyone will love it. But they don't; not even her best friends support her. Mallory is angry and hurt because she knows her idea is a good one, but her classmates want to make recycle bins for the cafeteria. She feels left out and shunned--how can she make everything right again? I guess 9-year-olds can relate to feeling upset when people dismiss their ideas, but Mallory is just a little too full of herself for
my tastes and stubbornly refuses to see things any other way than her own. It seems to take a long time
before she understands why her classmates didn't support her.

[Luisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mallory is thrilled to be the class representative on her school’s Green Committee. When she realizes she has inadvertently annoyed her family and classmates by telling them all how to live more eco-conscious lifestyles and ignoring her friends’ ideas for their class Green Fair project, she learns the importance of teamwork and listening to others. Mallory is a solid protagonist whose missteps make her more likeable.

[Itasca Community Library]

Mallory is back and this time she is the official member of the Fern Falls Elementary Environmental Committee. Mallory is so excited to go green that she alienates her friends and family by telling them what they need to do to go green, too. She must learn to listen to other people’s ideas and work together to save the environment. 2nd-4th graders who enjoy Junie B. Jones or Judy Moody are sure to love reading about Mallory McDonald.

[Sydney · Rating 5 out of 5]

when mallory gets chosen for a very important job and has to do a school project with her class nobody likes her idea so she thinks how to convince them to vote for her idea but no body listens to her. and arielle and her friend danielle has a idea and every body agrees with her idea.so mallory says sorry to the whole class and gives her class a present.

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mallory is chosen to be the class representative on the environmental committee. But when she comes up with an idea without taking any suggestions from her classmates, she is devastated when they are all not as excited.


learning to listen & work together; leadership

[Elizabeth Oakley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book because it tells how you can help the world. I don't get why it spells community wrong and then all of a sudden, it's spelled right. I like the part when mallory's friends try to cheer her up when no one liked her idia for the green faire

[Kaytee · Rating 5 out of 5]

When i read this book i thought Mallory was overreacting about going green but i also thought that ignoring Mallory was really rude but Mallory was so focused that she did not have time for her friends.

[Brett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mallory continues to learn lessons worth learning in a way that kids will enjoy reading about. The projects in this book could make for a fun class tie-in.

[Katie Fitzgerald · Rating 3 out of 5]

No review.

[Madeleine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this book was good. Just like all the other books in this series. These books i go through very quickley but there still interesting.

[Maya luvs ya!! · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book is going really good so far!!!!!!!

[Jasmine Cilley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mallory and Joey and Mary Ann were going to do fun stuff for the Green Fair at Fern Falls Elementry.

[Hillvan]

700L

[Jataria Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is recommended to my family and friends.

[Joey Gremillion · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my fav Mallory book. Preachy and too "aferschool special"

[Stephanie Cook · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mallory was very selfish and self-centered in this one. She needs to learn that it's not always about her.

[Haley Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

awsome