ISBN: 0976940418

"Look, everybody, Sarah wet her pants!" He shouted it like he was Paul Revere or something. I could feel my face flush hot pink. "Shut up, you creep!" I was so mad! I wanted to shove his… Altro …

"Look, everybody, Sarah wet her pants!" He shouted it like he was Paul Revere or something. I could feel my face flush hot pink. "Shut up, you creep!" I was so mad! I wanted to shove his head into a pothole. Sarah's first few days of fifth grade aren't going too well. She manages to run down the little brother of school bully Eric Bardo with her bicycle; she lies to the friend she likes the best; she "borrows" a basketball from her teacher's private supply cabinet to prove herself to her new schoolmates; and, with all her childish acts of revenge against Eric (including inserting wriggling larvae into his sandwich), manages to spend a large chunk of her lunches and recesses in detention. In the process, she is chastised by her new teacher--and her parents, who deliver the "Staying Out of Trouble at School" as well as the "Walking Away from Conflict" lecture. Perhaps worst of all, she gets the cold shoulder from her new friend Christina Perez, who doesn't appreciate her lies, or her "eye for an eye" attitude towards her tiresomely taunting tormentor. Sarah is no angel--she's flip and sarcastic, none too sensitive, and her logic is certainly skewed. (Not getting caught is equivalent to staying out of trouble, for example.) Still, thanks to wiser souls around her--including her teenage brother and her new best friend--she learns many valuable lessons about friendship, loyalty, and how to diffuse, and thereby dissolve, the continued attacks children's,children's books,contemporary,family life,friendship,friendship social skills and school life,growing up and facts of life,humor,literature and fiction,new experiences Children's Books, Cloonfad Press<

ISBN: 0976940418

*Carbone's frank and energetic voice invigorates a common scenario: an elementary school bully gives a kid a hard time. But readers will cheer rather than pity spunky Sarah. As the story … Altro …

*Carbone's frank and energetic voice invigorates a common scenario: an elementary school bully gives a kid a hard time. But readers will cheer rather than pity spunky Sarah. As the story begins, Sarah is riding her bike when she sees a boy on a tricycle in the path of an oncoming truck; to keep him from being hit, she runs her bike into him. No one understands (I must have stood there for a full five minutes waiting for someone to say, 'Cut. Cut. That was terrible. Let's do the scene again, and this time everybody...praise Sarah for saving the little boy's life). The child's older brother, Eric, flings derisive remarks at Sarah once school opens, and mild warfare erupts, with plenty of amusing battles. Eventually the fifth-grader learns that seemingly sweet revenge can sour -- it temporarily costs her the companionship of her new best friend, Christina. Carboen shapes characters with such lifelike dimension and through conversation so true that her story is at once comfortably familiar and entirely novel. Especially funny -- and wickedly on target -- is the author's phonetic relaying of teen-speak as uttered by Sarah's older brother (when Christina first shows up at their door, he mumbles to his sister that sumbuy's ear tuh seya). This middle-grade novel belongs at the head of its class.-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) children's,children's books,contemporary,family life,fiction,friendship,friendship social skills and school life,growing up and facts of life,humor,literature and fiction Children's Books, Cloonfad Press<

ISBN: 9780976940418

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