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Bel Air Bambi and the Mall Rats

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This book is wonderful--I absolutly loved it!!! It is hilarious, fun, and in some parts very suspensful!!! I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages!!!

A quirky, funny, uplifting book -- Which I did *NOT* expect; I only picked it up because I'd liked other books by the author. _Highly_ recommended!

Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats: A Worthy Story

When the father of the Babcock clan goes bankrupt, the Babcocks have to get out of Bel-Air, and they have to get out now. Bambi, Buffie, and Brick, along with Mr. and Mrs. Babcock load up in a big white truck and book it to Hickory Fork, Mr. B's hometown.

When they arrive at dear old grandma's, they find the refrigerator blocking the door, and a shotgun in Granny's hands. Things only get worse. A gang of nasty teenagers called the Mall Rats have taken over- in the words of a certain character: "The Mall Rats run this town." They've trashed the mall, and are moving in on the school. Bambi, Buffie, and little Brick decide to stop the Mall Rats if it's the last thing they do.

Richard Peck has created a wonderful story, with humor mixed in with suspense. Kids ages 7-11 will love this book!

Bel-Air is truly the place for swimming pools and movie stars. And rich Hollywood producers, which is exactly what Bambi Babcock's daddy does. Bambi is beautiful, rich, and spoiled. She is the perfect Bel-air stereotype. That is until Daddy gets in a little trouble.

When the Babcock family goes bankrupt Dad decides to move his wife, Brandi and her two younger siblings Brick and Buffie to Hickory Fork, the town where he grew up. Unfortunately Hickory Fork is about as far away from Bel-Air as you can get. There is no nail salon, no fancy French restaurants, and worst of all no mall...that they know of. In their school the teachers know very little about their subjects and the students know even less. Plus the whole town is under the `control' of the Mall Rats, the town gang.

Hickory Fork once had a mall. But it was run out by the mall rats gang. Now it sits dark and abandoned. Until night comes, then the mall rats go to the run down mall. They plot their evil, sleep, eat, and hold `meetings' in the old mall.

The family boards up with their grandmother who still lives there. But the real trouble starts when Brandi decides to spy on the Mall Rats. They sit horrified as they listen to the mall rats plan to kidnap the tight end of the opposing football team before the big game. What can they do! The gang runs the whole town, do they try and stop them? They can't just sit by and let someone get hurt....or worse.

Using the amazing theatrical talents given to their family, the whole town teams up to stop the mall rats once and for all. Using a plan almost too ridiculous to work.

This hilarious story is written from the perspective of Brandi's little sister Buffie. She is almost the odd one out. Kind of like Jan Brady syndrome. Richard Peck does an amazing job of bringing these characters to life. You are quickly drawn right into this entertaining book. I highly recommend it for anyone eleven and up.

This book did not appeal to me at all. It's about two girls, Bambi and Buffi, and their family, and how they have to move from L.A. to a rural, country area. The girls have to cope with gangs and lack of luxury as they learn to cope with the move.

I didn't relate to the characters of this book. I also thought the plot to be very strange, and to put it bluntly, pathetic. There was something about the writing style that made the gangs come off as extremely childish, and I didn't appreciate the girls concerning rural prejudice and luxurious desires.

I would not recommend reading this book.

I'll start of by saying that's the worst name for a book I've ever heard in my life! There, got that over with.

It's an interesting book and kind of funny, I'll give it that, but it's just too weird for me. The whole concept of a rich family moving to a middle of nowhere town, being plagued by a gang of high schoolers called the mall rats. I don't want to tell you how the rich family shows the gang who's boss but it's also pretty weird.

Another problem with the book is that it's short, and most of the pages are spent on developing the characters, and the town in which they reside in.

Don't read the book if you don't have to. You'll probably just end up being disappointed with it.