Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Book 3: Best Friends and Drama Queens [Hardcover]

Meg Cabot (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

#1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot's first middle-grade series!

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!

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

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. Grades 3-5. --Carolyn Phelan

Review

Praise for Allie Finkle: "In Cabot's first foray into novels for kids who are still in single digits, her trademark frank humor makes for compulsive reading...Allie is funny, believable, and plucky." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "Your new rule? This book must be read...now!" -Discovery Girls "Meet the most likable heroine since Pippi Longstocking..." -Copley News Service "Allie will appeal to children who enjoyed reading about Ramona, Amber Brown, Junie B., and the other feisty girls found in beginning chapter books. This novel proves that the master of young adult popular fare is able to adapt her breezy style for a younger audience." -School Library Journal "Offering a new series for preteens, Meg Cabot brings her signature ear for dialogue to a younger group, and she gets 4th grade right." -Chicago Tribune "Cabot's winning tone and characterizations will make Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls a surefire hit with its target audience as well as parents who care to provide their children with role models you can't find in other media created for this age group. Long live Allie Finkle!" -Kidsreads.com "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…sympathetically portrays the broad emotional range of fourth graders." - Booklist

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Press (March 10, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0545040434
• ISBN-13: 978-0545040433
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #399,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write! Books for you, your sister, your best friend, your mother . . . . even for men with good taste!

Most of my time is spent over at my website, http://megcabot.com, so be sure to stop by!

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Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My daughter loved it!, April 29, 2009

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This review is from: Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Book 3: Best Friends and Drama Queens (Hardcover)

I just picked this book up because I thought my 7 year old daughter would like it and boy was I right! She couldn't put it down and really enjoyed it. We didn't realize until she was finished that it is #3 in the Rules for Girls series. She can't wait to read the first 2 books. I do need to note that while my daughter is in the 2nd grade, her reading level is at a 4th grade level, so this may be a little long for a 7 year old (200 pages).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Teens Read Too, June 20, 2009

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TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Book 3: Best Friends and Drama Queens (Hardcover)

Allie thought her life was going pretty good during holiday vacation. Her family got a new game system and she was anxious to share it with her friends when they came home from vacation.

Right before school starts up, one of her friends tells her that their teacher said they are going to have a new student when they come back. At first, Allie isn't too excited about this. But once she finds out that the new student is a girl and from Canada, the excitement sets in.

Though on her first day back, Allie is asked to sit in the back of the classroom with all the annoying, gross boys so the new girl, Cheyenne, can sit up front with the girls and feel welcome in her new class . Not long after Cheyenne starts going to Allie's school, she and her friends realize that she isn't that great.

Mostly, she's just bossy and rude. She thinks that all the girls in the fourth grade should be "going" with boys because that is the mature thing to do. Pretty soon, she ends up getting most all of the girls to even go with all the boys, but not Allie. Allie is determined to stand her ground and to not be bullied by this bully.

This was a really cute third book in the ALLIE FINKLE'S RULES FOR GIRLS series. Meg Cabot has the perfect voice of a girl in the fourth grade. I can just picture Allie and her friends. I thought some parts of this book were a little out there, but even so it was a cute read. I'm sure young girls (and even boys) around the world will enjoy this book, and the rest of the series.

I love all the little rules she makes up. My favorite rule in this book was: "Boys can seriously be so stupid sometimes. Also deeply thoughtless." So true!

Reviewed by: Breanna F.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls ('n Drama Queens) is delightful!, March 12, 2009

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This review is from: Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Book 3: Best Friends and Drama Queens (Hardcover)

Allie Finkle had lots of rules. She'd started writing a book of them mostly, she said "so I'd know how to get along with girls." She had to admit she was afraid of some of them, but not her best friends Erica (her bestest friend), Sophie and Caroline. The only one who stayed home during Christmas vacation was Sophie, who broke her toe playing Dance Party America with her, but when they all got back together again it would be great!

Pine Heights Elementary's fourth grade class (room 209 if you want to get specific) was great until that new girl from Canada showed up. Mrs. Hunter made Allie give up her seat and move to the back of the classroom. She had to sit next to a bunch of losers (well, she could live with Rosemary). Sitting next to Stuart, Patrick and Joey wasn't going to be easy, but when the new girl Cheyenne began to take over the whole fourth grade her life began to go topsy turvy big time! Was she ever going to live through this? The Terror Triplets were going to look great in comparison.

Having had the word WHISPER slapped on MY fourth grade report card I could relate to Allie. Life sure is tough when you are only nine-years-old and some new kid on the block tells you that "let's pretend" is babyish because "Friendly People Don't Tell Other People That Their Games are Babyish." (RULE #4) I fell in love with Allie almost instantaneously and her thirteen rules are worth looking into!