Clementine, Sara Pennypacker
This time a lighthearted, lovely book. This is a great book to read aloud at night, a chapter before your kids go to sleep. But also a book young readers will love. And, once they do, there are now more in the series.
In this first book of the series, Clementine tries to help out her friend Margaret, but ends up in a lot of trouble for it. Things get worse each day of the week, until finally she’s worried that Margaret is right: Clementine’s parents might consider her “the hard one” in the family. They’re up to something mysterious…are they thinking they’d be better off if they only had her little vegetable-named brother…”the easy one”?
Clementine has a wonderful, spunky voice. She is that dreamer, that girl with the wild imagination – that every classroom has. I like how her personality shines through in the writing. Just a fun book to curl up with!
Hyperion Books
Paperback, 160 pages
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