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Switched At Birthday (2014)

by Natalie Standiford(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0545346509 (ISBN13: 9780545346504)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Scholastic Press

review 1: Switched at birthday so it is about 2 girl one is named Scarlet she is popular and tall and good at soccer. Lavender is short and shy and bad at sport. There have the same birthday. So lavender wish to be someone else. Scarlet want people dream to come true. Then the next day lavender is scarlet and scarlet is lavender. But notice good and bad about they body have are in. So scarlet loves being in lavender body but lavender hate being in scarlet body.
review 2: This was actually much better than I thought it was going to be! I read a chapter of this aloud as part of a book talk to my 5th graders and I got so much immediate interest in the book that I decided to start a book club (we only had one ARC of the book, and it definitely wouldn't have made it into al... morel the hands that wanted it by the end of the school year). I wasn't entirely enthusiastic about reading this given how "fluffy" it seemed, but it was actually really fun, especially as a read-aloud, and my kids really liked it. I thought they would get confused switching back and forth between the two main characters but they kept track even better than I did. The book was pretty funny, and I liked that each character was fleshed out a little bit. The story was fairly predictable and there were a lot of "walk a mile in someone else's shoes" and "don't be a mean girl" lessons, but nothing too terribly didactic or over-the-top. And to be honest, sometimes my kids like that kind of stuff - I think it makes them feel a little safer, and they can connect to the book more easily. I don't know if I would've read this on my own but I definitely recommend it for middle grade kids and/or as a read-aloud. less

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