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Best Enemies

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I bought this book for my daughter when she was six---and it became an often-quoted family favorite. It is very realistic in the way it deals with the way girls pick on each other in school, and was just what my daughter needed to hear---you don't have to like everyone, you do have to get along with them. It is also terrifically funny! After she read the book my daughter would often refer to a girl she didn't like as a "Best Enemy" and I think the lesson she learned has helped her to do better socially. If it were up to me, it would be required reading for every little girl out there!

It is about a girl named Priscilla Robin. She is eight years old and is very excited to go to school. It was her first day and she couldn't wait to find out if her friends were going to be in her class. She meets a new girl whose name is Felicity Doll. She is very mean becuse she takes Priscilla's desk, then her pencil case, her lunchbox, and ever her sweater! When she tells her parents about it, her sister, Eve, gets mad and wants to have a word with Felicity. Priscilla wants to take care of it herself. This book is really good and should be read by everyone. It is funny and exciting at the same time.

I remember first reading this book when I was 7 years old. This girl felicity really annoyed priscilla and then stole her stuff while pretending to be her friend and priscilla finds a way to confront her without tattletaling or fighting back which can be pretty inspiring. Felicity was mostly jealous of her throughout the book like when she got new shoes and everyone loved them, when priscilla won the sports festival at her school and almost ruining her birthday party by being such a brat. But through it all priscilla kept her cool in a way I never would have been able to in my day, and basically knowing that two wrongs don't make a right.

I give the book Best Enemies by Kathleen Leverich three stars because it's a great book. It's about two girls who meet one the first day of school and become enemies right away. One of the girls is Felicity Doll. Felicity is a snake and does some pretty mean things to Pricilla, who is the other girl. In the book Priscilla says she hates Felicity, but, I wasn't so sure about that. Felicity had taken Priscilla's desk, pencil case, and even her new sweater. Priscilla's sister Eve had warned her about Felicity Doll and told her to stay away from her. Instead, of listening to her sister. Priscilla, well...... read the book because I have said too much already. Hope you enjoy reading his book!

if you can envision a town where the teachers, parents, and children don't believe in the use of contractions, then you have priscilla's town down cold. i can understand a writer's personal convictions might lead her to avoid contractions in the narrative, but what characters would really talk that way? "i do not want to trade desks." "you do not want to be late for school." "i will not wear those shoes." sounds very unnatural and it ruined the book for me. and who says contractions are bad, anyway? your great-gramma?