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Lucy Rose: Busy Like You Can't Believe
I'm Lucy Rose, and here's the thing about 4th: that grade is busy like you can't believe! Especially if you are a person who is already PLENTY busy on account of having RESPONSIBILITIES and I am that kind exactly. I am already collecting a vocabulary, plus I have to think up new palindromes and now I have to do the most P-U thing which is the MULTIPLICATION tables, which I would say is a thing I hate, if I was allowed to say hate, which I am not.
PLUS I have to do the greatest thing and that is be in the play of Annie and I'm sure I will get to be Annie because 1. I have red hair and 2. if I don't I will absolutely perish to death.
PLUS there is another thing I have to do absolutely constantly and that is what my mom calls eavesdropping but I call LISTENING VERY QUIETLY SO I CAN KNOW THINGS. But that turns out to be halfway sickening because now I know a thing about my mom and it's that she has a FRIEND that is a MAN and I think they are having DATES. That makes me feel like I'm horrified to pieces and part of me doesn't want to know a single more thing but the other part does because how else can I figure out how to keep those 2 apart?
And here is the thing about that: it can make a girl exhausted.
From the Hardcover edition.
PLUS I have to do the greatest thing and that is be in the play of Annie and I'm sure I will get to be Annie because 1. I have red hair and 2. if I don't I will absolutely perish to death.
PLUS there is another thing I have to do absolutely constantly and that is what my mom calls eavesdropping but I call LISTENING VERY QUIETLY SO I CAN KNOW THINGS. But that turns out to be halfway sickening because now I know a thing about my mom and it's that she has a FRIEND that is a MAN and I think they are having DATES. That makes me feel like I'm horrified to pieces and part of me doesn't want to know a single more thing but the other part does because how else can I figure out how to keep those 2 apart?
And here is the thing about that: it can make a girl exhausted.
From the Hardcover edition.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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June 3, 2009
5 stars. Grades 2-4. More Lucy Rose wonderfulness. Her summer vacation is done and Lucy Rose is in 4th grade. And that grade has a lot of responsibilities! She continues to collect a vocabulary plus palindromes but now multiplication has been added to the list. And multiplication is a thing she hates, if she were allowed to say the word hate, which she is not. PLUS, 4th grade will be performing the play, Annie, and she knows she'll be Annie because she has red hair and if she doesn't she will absolutely perish to death! PLUS, she has to eavesdrop to find out what her mom is up to--could she be dating a MAN? All these things can make a girl exhausted.
September 4, 2010
Lucy Rose would say, "Wow!" about this book because Lucy Rose loves palindromes and words and things that are hilarious. And sometimes Lucy Rose and her friends and family are pretty hilarious.
I wish I had read this series from first to last instead of the other way, but once I read one I wanted to go back and read the other ones. In this book, Lucy is entering fourth grade with her best friend Jonique, with a new friend Hannah, and with her friend who is a boy but not a boyfriend, Arthur, who everyone calls Melonhead. Lucy Rose is not very pleased to be learning multiplication tables. She also develops a bad habit--eavesdropping. And she is working on her goal of becoming a Broadway star. As is often the case with Lucy Rose, life doesn't work out exactly as she wishes or believes it will.
I love Lucy Rose's BIG personality, her sense of style, and her family's love of words. She makes me smile!
I wish I had read this series from first to last instead of the other way, but once I read one I wanted to go back and read the other ones. In this book, Lucy is entering fourth grade with her best friend Jonique, with a new friend Hannah, and with her friend who is a boy but not a boyfriend, Arthur, who everyone calls Melonhead. Lucy Rose is not very pleased to be learning multiplication tables. She also develops a bad habit--eavesdropping. And she is working on her goal of becoming a Broadway star. As is often the case with Lucy Rose, life doesn't work out exactly as she wishes or believes it will.
I love Lucy Rose's BIG personality, her sense of style, and her family's love of words. She makes me smile!
March 7, 2011
This is the fourth book in the series and is just as delightful as the first three. We see Lucy Rose again her engaging and hilarious self. She desperately wants to be Annie at the play, but this is problematic when her worst enemy gets the part. Lucy Rose is given a much better part, but she doesn't see it at the time.
Added to this is her concern that her mother is dating. Like almost every child of divorce, Lucy Rose has dreams that her parents will get together again and she is horrified when she listens in on a telephone call that makes her think that her mother has a boyfriend.
This is an excellent book for children of divorce. In fact, it would be great if it were required reading for their parents. Lucy Rose's parents bend over backward to accomodate each other for the sake of Lucy Rose and the grandparents do the same. Lucy Rose calls her father when she wants and her mother is always respectful of her love for her father. Even for adults, this book is good.
Added to this is her concern that her mother is dating. Like almost every child of divorce, Lucy Rose has dreams that her parents will get together again and she is horrified when she listens in on a telephone call that makes her think that her mother has a boyfriend.
This is an excellent book for children of divorce. In fact, it would be great if it were required reading for their parents. Lucy Rose's parents bend over backward to accomodate each other for the sake of Lucy Rose and the grandparents do the same. Lucy Rose calls her father when she wants and her mother is always respectful of her love for her father. Even for adults, this book is good.
July 17, 2011
Lively, funny and full of spirit- Lucy Rose is a 4th grader anyone might want for a friend.
April 9, 2014
Very cute series. Reminds me of Junie B., Nancy Clancy, and Gooney Bird Greene, but just a little older. It does bug me that Lucy Rose does tend to sound like a highly intelligent first graders rather than a fourth grader, but that could just be the way I hear her in my head. This would be a great series to read out loud. Younger readers who read on a higher level would enjoy it.
September 9, 2014
I'm sure children for this age group (3rd to 7th grade) would love this book! It has great themes, but I couldn't get past the annoyance of being in a young child's head. Oops.
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