Monday, January 5, 2009

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker


The world's funniest 3rd grader is in town!

Clementine is a book about a 3rd grader who thinks different from other regular 3rd graders. And every time she is sent to the principle's office, she is really innocent. "I shouldn't have really gotten in trouble for cutting Margret's hair!" she says, "because she asked me to." Or sometimes she goes just to ask a really simple question. " What's more smart: chimpanzees or orangutans?"

Margret, a 4th grader who lives in her apartment building, is very different in certain ways.
Her room always looks like a magazine picture, her clothes never have any stains on them, she has never gone to the principle's office, and her mom is a banker who always wears dresses. Clementine, on the other hand, her room always has things on the floor so you can't even see the floor, each morning she gets some of her breakfast on her outfit everyday, almost everyday she is sent to the principle's office, and her mom is an artist who always wears overalls covered in paint.

Then Clementine decides she wants to be more like Margret, so she gets some spray cleaner, paper towels, and water, and and decides to start with cleaning her room. She starts with under her bed.

When it turns out she never has to be like Margret to be a great person, she decides to be herself again.

Clementine is a great book with lots of laughter!

2 comments:

  1. This sounds like a great book! And I love the title. :)

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  2. I have a feeling I know why you chose this particular book. Nana

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