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#1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot's first middle-grade series continues!
Allie Finkle is excited when a new girl, who comes all the way from Canada, joins her class at Pine Heights Elementary. Now Allie won't be the new girl anymore!
But her excitement turns to dismay when the new girl, Cheyenne, starts telling everyone in the fourth grade what to do! Soon Cheyenne has everyone, including Allie's best friends, Caroline, Sophie, and Erica, believing that if they don't do what she says, they'll be what Cheyenne accuses them of being babies!
But Allie isn't sure she's ready to be all grown-up yet. Not if it means chasing boys at recess, not playing her favorite games anymore, and especially . . . not being herself!
Author Notes
Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana on February 1, 1967. She recieved a fine arts degree from Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City, intent upon pursuing a career in freelance illustration. Illustrating, however, soon got in the way of Meg's true love, writing, and so she abandoned it and got a job as the assistant manager of an undergraduate dormitory at New York University, and writing on the weekends.
Meg wrote both The Princess Diaries and The Mediator: Shadowland (under the name Jenny Carroll), the first books in two series for young adults which happen to be about, among other things, teenage girls dealing with unsettling family issues. Her latest book is entitled, Insatiable.
Meg now writes full time, and lives in Key West, Florida with her husband.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Horn Book Review
(Intermediate) Allie is thrilled when she learns there'll be a new girl in her fourth-grade class-and that she's from Canada. But as it turns out, Cheyenne is not very friendly, and she calls Allie and her friends immature. Soon, Cheyenne has taken over Room 209, forcing her classmates to "go with" one another and chasing boys in order to kiss them at recess (prompting one of Allie's rules: "Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good"). Cheyenne even has a spa slumber party, specifically inviting everyone except Allie and her friends. Refusing to give in, Allie has her own sleepover, way more fun than Cheyenne's, and ends up telling Cheyenne off. Known for her books for teens, Cabot demonstrates in this third entry in the Allie Finkle's Rules series a talent for empathizing with middle-graders, too. Without being condescending or saccharine, she reassures readers, acknowledging that fourth grade can be stressful: getting moved to the back of the classroom is distressing, and being called babyish hurts. But all Allie needs are her rules, her best friends, and a little courage to get her through. Though she's under pressure to grow up, she (and her readers) learn that there's no need to rush. From HORN BOOK, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Friendship and loyalty carry the day in this spirited third title of Cabot's Rules-for-Girls series (The New Girl, 2008, etc.). Nine-year-old Allie Finkle and her troupe of four best friends (all with nicely distinctive personalities) at Pine Heights Elementary are appalled by the bossiness of a new girl from Toronto, Canada, who arrives after the winter break in much-coveted high-heeled suede boots and a T-shirt that declares "TNT: Talent Not Talk." Cheyenne O'Malley doesn't have time for the recess games that Allie and her pals delight in playing, but instead engineers a class-wide kissing game that demonstrates her superior maturity and throws Allie for a loop. Why would anyone want to kiss the back-of-the-class boys they all know are creepy, or even "go" with them somewhere? The irony is hilarious and touching, and the author addresses preteen agony by rendering boys and girls alike in a three-dimensional light, even Allie's pesky younger brothers and her quirky young Uncle Jay, who suffers from a broken heart. A pleaser. (Fiction. 8-12) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Allie looks forward to starting school again after winter vacation, but the arrival of a new girl, Cheyenne, changes everything. Within days, Cheyenne gathers a clique, starts a chase-and-kiss game at recess, and bullies most of her classmates into pairing off and going with each other, even though they're not sure exactly what that means. Using Allie's fresh voice and believable fourth-grade perspective, Cabot gets across her let children be children message in a way that will make sense to other kids. The third Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls book sympathetically portrays the broad emotional range of fourth-graders.--Phelan, Carolyn Copyright 2008 Booklist
