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Today I Will: A Year Of Quotes, Notes, And Promises To Myself (2009)

by Jerry Spinelli(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0375840575 (ISBN13: 9780375840579)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

review 1: The Spinellis know what kids like, and the pieces in this book are no exception. They pulled quotes from juvenile and middle school books, like:"The zoo is kid stuff," Miguel tells his sister."I am a kid!" Juanita states. "And you're a kid, too."and used them as jumping-off points for helpful and wise (but never preachy) advice:Of all the mistakes that kids make, this may be the most common: they don't enjoy being a kid. Starting with every birthday, we join a new club -- the 11-Year-Old Club, the 12-Year-Old Club. etc. We belong for 365 days and then we're out. We could live to 1000, but we'll never belong to that particular club again. If we're smart, we'll enjoy where and when we are and not keep itching forward to the next year.and daily affirmations and goals:I'll be ... morehappy with the club I'm in today and not gripe about what I'm not yet allowed to do.Recommended for middle-school and high-school readers.
review 2: If I had a 10ish year old girl in my life, I would get this for her for Christmas. Here's an example of a passage from the book that helps explain why: "Would you bite into something without knowing what it is? Swallow something without tasting it? no. You wouldn't eat it until you trusted it. So why are we quicker to judge a person than a vegetable?"I can totally imagine a pre-pubescent girl reading that, nodding in solemn agreement and copying it on her notebook for further contemplation (or better yet to hopefully be noticed by someone else that will think she's really "deep").It's like a pre-cursor to the music quotes that will inevitably clutter the cover of high school notebooks. less

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