Annie Bananie is the new girl at Nichols school and every girl wants to be her friend. On the first day of school, the teacher announces that for Lucky Lunch Day the kids will visit someone else's house for lunch instead of eating at school. Libby really wants Annie Bananie to visit her house and tries to think of the best lunch for her friend. But with Libby's mom away, Grandma Gert will have to serve the girls lunch. Grandma Gert says she'd be happy to play waitress, but she eats only potatoes. Libby can't serve only potatoes to Annie Bananie! Libby knows she has to come up with a great plan so that Annie will be her best friend to the end.
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Annie Bananie is off to a new school, but is she worried? Hardly. Not only did she meet lots of kids over the summer, not only does she have a particularly adorable best-friend dog, and not only does she already know her teacher will be Mrs. Liebling, absolutely the coolest teacher at her new school. Nope, that's not all.
Annie also has half the girls in her grade begging to be her best friend. With hilarity, accuracy, and compassion, author Leah Komaiko captures the agony and competition endemic to these early best-friend courtships. Girls will love watching this sensible, personable character cope with such enthusiastic hot pursuit; their parents will find it all highly instructive. (For ages 7-10)
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Annie Bananie is the new girl at Nichols school and every girl wants to be her friend. On the first day of school, the teacher announces that for Lucky Lunch Day the kids will visit someone else's house for lunch instead of eating at school. Libby really wants Annie Bananie to visit her house and tries to think of the best lunch for her friend. But with Libby's mom away, Grandma Gert will have to serve the girls lunch. Grandma Gert says she'd be happy to play waitress, but she eats only potatoes. Libby can't serve only potatoes to Annie Bananie! Libby knows she has to come up with a great plan so that Annie will be her best friend to the end.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
An awful book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Annie Bananie, Best Friends to the End (Hardcover)
Horn Book reviews are 99% on target. I was looking for a good series for Grade 1. What a disappointment. All of the characters seemed stereotypes and some were rude. One character calls another "mental." An example of poor writing.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This Book Is The Most Terrible Book I Ever Read!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Annie Bananie, Best Friends to the End (Paperback)
This book was very bad. I agree with the horn book review. Not only do the characters behave terribly, (they ridicule classmates all the time) but they have disgusting habits. One behaves like a cat, another grunts like a pig, another acts like a horse. I would of thought this class was actually made up of ranchers in disguise, (the first day the teacher is dressed like a cowgirl, and 'Annie Bananie' brings her dog to school) but there is also a boy nicknamed Snowman who picks dandruff off his scalp all day, then eats it. This, of course, is enormusly disgusting. But it isn't the only sickening part in the book. Near the end, Annie Bananie vomits on a classmate's back. It also has very unrealistic factors. The classmates hurt feelings in front of the teacher, and she doesn't do anything. When Annie vomits on Libby's back, she seemed to not do anything to prevent it. And when Annie starts vomiting again, does she move away from Libby? No. She just continues barfing on Libby's (her 'Lucky Lunch' partner, and friend) back. At the end, Annie said, "Only a best friend would not be mad if someone vomits on their back." Well, a best friend wouldn't simply let her self throw up on a friend's back, would she?This book also encourages lying and teasing, which some character does on each chapter. It also encourages cliques and 'popularity', because if you noticed, all the girls compete for Annie's friendship, and all classmates swarm around her like flies swarm around garbage. Although it is sweet how Libby wanted to give Annie Bananie the perfect lunch, this just gives an example of the competition and popularity factor. It is also nice how Libby spends her money sock money to give Annie the perfect meal at Buffalo Bills, but not nice enough to make up for all the other faults. Also, the main character Libby lise to everyone from family to friends. My closing statement are that Leah Komaike (author of this book) obviously has no writing talent at all, that this book has no good plot(and the plot this book has is extremely uninteresting,) and not to waste your money on a cheap book you will be deeply disapointed with.
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Lesson in Cruelty,
This review is from: Annie Bananie, Best Friends to the End (Paperback)
We listened to this one in book-on-tape form, and the kids (6, 8 & 11) were very disappointed. As homeschoolers, I am often told that I'm not preparing my kids for the "real world." This book is proof that incarcerating 30 age-mates is not the "real world." My kids were shocked at how cruel the kids were to each other, the lies they told to each other, their teacher, and their families. They were even more disappointed that the children were not punished for their actions.Even for someone who is pro-traditional school, I would not recommend this book. Lucky Lunch Day is a very unlikely event in this day of closed campuses. The meanness displayed in it should not be glorified in the search to "fit in." The message given was that it's acceptable to do whatever it takes to have a "best friend."
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