Books by Ann M. Martin
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review 1: Ann M. Martin creates another layer to the "write what you did this summer" September assignment. Pearl's father has recently lost his job. This changes all the plans that Pearl had looked forward to - especially the family vacation to the Arizona and the Grand Canyon. Instead P...
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review 1: I read this book during breaks from subbing and had tears flowing by the end. I generally don't do well with animal stories and Rain Reign was no exception. This is the story of a 5th grade girl, Rose, who has Asperger's syndrome and whose father's inability to parent is compou...
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review 1: Pearl, barely nine, always seems to make her sister, Lexie, mad at her. Lexie, who is 13 going on 14, seems to use the phrase "I'm not speaking to you!" with Pearl constantly. The problem is: Pearl doesn't seem to understand what it is she does to make Lexie mad. So she starts to...
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review 1: This was a lovely kids' story in the long tradition of dog books--Where the Red Fern Grows, etc.--that really books about growing up and dealing with life. The twist here is that part of the story is told from one of the dogs' point of view. It's the story of Bone/Buddy, and two ...
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review 1: What... what the heck was that?I'm hard-pressed to think of a book I have more intensely disliked while reading. It feels to me like the author was bucking HARD for a Newberry and thought Newberry = depressing as hell. But Newberry also equals other things like cohesive plot and...
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review 1: Four generations. Four girls. One family. An amazing new four-book series from Ann M. Martin.In 1930, Abby Nichols is eight, and can't imagine what her future holds. The best things today would be having a dime for the fair, keeping her Pops from being angry, and saving up eighty...
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review 1: Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.comI really like the MAIN STREET series, and the sixth book was outstanding. The three girls - Flora, Nikki, and Olivia - are now going to Junior High, which is also the high school, so there will be students from 7th grade to 12th grad...
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review 1: The Babysitters Club series was very popular back when I was a preteen. These books helped me when I was going through some of the same issues they dealt with; like divorced parents, gossipy girls, cliques, boys and many other things girls these ages deal with. These books portra...
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review 1: The Baby-Sitters Club the summer before is a chapter book about the lives of four girls, Kristy, Stacey, Maryanne, and Claudia. This book is about the summer before seventh grade. Each chapter is from a different girls perspective about how the girls summer is going. I loved that...
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review 1: Since the time I bought this book in 2011 I couldn't bring myself to read this book. But one fine day, in 2013 everyone in my family went for an afternoon nap. There was no electricity and to be frank I was grounded too. So, I didn't have any other option but to read this book an...