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Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls

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I am a teacher and I read the first book - "Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat" to my third grade students. They LOVED it! Then I found out that there was a sequel - "Emmy and the Home for Troubles Girls" and we had to get that to read also. Both books are delightfully and comically written with a variety of engaging characters, especially Miss Barmy, whom my students loved to hate. The plot kept us guessing until the end and we had to preempt all that fun stuff, like math and social studies, to finish the book. I highly recommend these two books.

Jonell, Lynne. Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls. Art by Jonathan Bean. Henry Holt and Company. 2008.

Emmy from "Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat" (Henry Holt, 2007) is back with her best friend Joe and her delightful animal friends in another amusing fantasy adventure. Emmy, Joe, and her new friend Meg get involved in rescuing some kidnapped children who have been shrunk and enslaved by Emmy's former villainous nanny, Miss Barmy. Jonathan Bean decorates the page tops with a recurring closet shelf that hints of the mystery in the story, and cleverly creates an animated mouse figure gradually climbing a rope up to the shelf as the story progresses. Well-written humorous dialogue and engaging characters make this book an appealing read for children, ages 9-12.

Great 2nd book. "Couldn't wait to finish it and read it in 1 day." " she kept shrinking and observing the world in new ways" "going back and forth between the rodent world and the human world kept it interesting"