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Always, Abigail (2014)

by Nancy J. Cavanaugh(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1402293038 (ISBN13: 9781402293030)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

review 1: Synopsis- Abigail Walters was entering the sixth grade, and, along with her best friends Alli and Cami, can’t wait to become a Pompom Girl. Then everything goes wrong. Alli and Cami get the same homeroom, and have the same teachers. Abigail has the meanest homeroom teacher in the school. When that teacher assigns a project where you write letters to an assigned person in the class, Abigail gets paired with Gabby – an outcast-y, “weird”-type – and Abigail dreads it. But what if she actually starts to like Gabby? And starts to realize that her friends aren’t as nice as she thought they were?What I liked-This was a great book about choosing what you should do, over what you want to do. At first, I wasn’t sure about the writing style of the book, it started off ... moreas list after list after list, but then I figured out that the book was written like a notebook, and I found myself really liking it. Abigail tells her story though lists and small paragraphs (for example: 3 Reasons I Know I Was Born To Be A PomPom Girl, and What I Wanted To Say, But Didn’t). The style really grew on me. Abigail has always wanted to be one of those popular “PomPom Girls” (I am figuring that is a cheerleader), but first, she doesn’t get any classes with her two best friends, and then, in her Language Arts room, she gets partnered with the biggest “loser” in 6th grade and she pretty much thinks her life is over. I didn’t really like how Abigail blatantly calls Gabby (her partner), a “loser” in her notebook. I really disliked her at first, but I guess that is the point of the story. ;) Abigail goes through a natural, yet significant, character change. As a reader, I really enjoy that in a book.*NOTE* I got a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
review 2: Another great book by Nancy J. Cavanaugh! After reading "This journal Belongs to Ratchet", which I truly loved, I just had to read Nancy Cavanaugh's next book! The story of Abigail was very gripping, and once I picked up the book, I couldn't put it down; I finished it in one day! This book tells the story of Abigail in an unforgettable way with an unforgettable heroine in Cavanaugh's unforgettable writing style. A great read by the author of "This Journal Belongs to Ratchet"! less

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