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Life for the Flower Power girls is never boring. Milla, still madly in crush with sweet Max, wonders if it's time--dun dun dun!--for the two of them to actually HOLD HANDS. Eeek! Katie-Rose, on the other hand, can't help but wonder when--or if--she will ever be crush-worthy, especially since the only boy to pay her any attention is pesky, annoying Preston, whose favorite pastime is throwing erasers at Katie-Rose's head. Violet, however, has bigger issues than boys on her mind. Her mom is finally scheduled to be discharged from the psychiatric hospital where she's been undergoing treatment, but what if her homecoming doesn't go as planned? Luckily, Yasaman has a foolproof plan for distracting her friends from their worries. The targets: beloved teachers Mr. Emerson and Ms. Perez, who are meant for each other, even if they don't know it. The goal: to bring those lovebirds together at their school's "Kids Night In," a teacher-chaperoned evening of fun, fabulosity, and possibly even romance . . .
Praise for Oopsy Daisy "Milla, Violet, Yaz and Katie-Rose continue to charm; here's hoping they have more hijinks in store." - Kirkus Reviews
Author Notes
Lauren Myracle is an American author of YA fiction. She was born on May 15, 1969, in Brevard, North Carolina and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received her BA in English and Psychology. After graduation, she taught middle-school in Georgia and participated in an exchange and teaching program (JET) in Japan. She would go on to earn an MA in English from Colorado State University and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College.
Since her first novel, Kissing Kate, was published in 2003, Myracle has written numerous books and series including: the Internet Girls series, The Winnie Years, Flower Power, the Life of Ty and the Wishing Series.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Horn Book Review
Changes are in store for the girls in this third Flower Power book: Violet's mom is home from the mental hospital; Milla wants to save a classmate from going down the mean-girl path; Yaz longs to step out of her comfort zone; and Katie-Rose worries about everyone maturing and changing. Myracle continues to thoughtfully capture the complex feelings of tweens. (c) Copyright 2012. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Violet in Bloom, 2010, etc.) third volume in the Flower Power series. With last month's Snack Attack behind them, fifth-graders Milla, Violet, Yasaman (Yaz) and Katie-Rose are ready to take on a new project. Milla's teacher, Mr. Emerson, is goofy and charming, but he's always telling the class that he has "no one to go home to accept a dust bunny named Maude." Yaz adores her teacher, Ms. Perez, and knows that she's looking for her "Mr. Right." Yaz is positive they'd be perfect for one another, so the girls launch Plan Teacherly Lurve to set them up. But romance isn't the only thing on the flower friends' minds. Violet struggles to adjust to her mom's return from a mental hospital; Milla wants to rescue a classmate from the clutches of mean girls Modessa and Quin; Yaz finds herself unexpectedly enrolled in trapeze lessons; and Katie-Rose worries that they're growing up too fast--although a certain boy has caught her attention. Myracle perfectly captures the nuances of fifth-grade life, where stinky farts are another form of flirting and brownies can make everything better. Readers will certainly relate to the girls' struggles to grow up but not leave childhood behind just yet. Milla, Violet, Yaz and Katie-Rose continue to charm; here's hoping they have more hijinks in store. (Fiction. 9-13)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
In the third book in the Flower Power series, following Luv Ya Bunches (2009) and Violet in Bloom (2010), the four 10-year-old FFFs Flower Friends Forever are back with plenty of new fifth-grade drama. Violet is walking on eggshells around her mom, who has just been released from the hospital; Katie-Rose is disgusted by the grossness of boys; Milla frets about saving classmate Elena from her position as Evil Chick #3 in the mean-girl group; and Yasamin worries about testing boundaries with her parents. On top of it all, there's Project Teacherly Lurve to keep them busy. Over the course of a single week, all four girls mature, even Katie-Rose, and experience friendship growing pains along the way. As in previous titles, their stories are told in alternating first-person narratives, with IMs and blog posts on the new luvyabunches.com site filling in the rest. Although fans of the series are the obvious audience, plenty of backstory makes this appropriate for new readers, too. Myracle proves, once again, that she has her finger firmly on the pulse of tween girldom.--Kelley, Ann Copyright 2010 Booklist
