The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle) [Kindle Edition]

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-6-This fourth book about the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters begins shortly before Christmas, three months after the Malloys move to Buckman, WV. As the holiday season approaches, the boys and girls continue to play pranks on one another and begin to learn the consequences of their actions. Caroline Malloy and Wally Hatford are partners for their fourth-grade December project and discover that, instead of annoying one another, they need to learn how to work together in order to receive a passing grade. Told in their alternating viewpoints, the story moves quickly, continuing the mischief and humor of the previous novels. Readers will be especially taken with precocious and dramatic Caroline, who will stop at nothing for revenge. While it is not necessary to read the first three books, fans of the series will enjoy references to the characters' past pranks and will delight in the promise of future additions to this ongoing battle between these rivals.
Shawn Brommer, Southern Tier Library System, Corning, NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Gr. 3^-5. The Hatford boys and the Malloy girls are at it again in Naylor's latest installment of this ongoing feud, which began in The Boys Start the War (1993) and continued in The Girls Get Even (1993) and Boys against Girls (1994). It's December, and eight-year-old Caroline chooses Wally to be her partner in the December project, an interview and presentation assignment. But Caroline's plan to be Wally for a day goes terribly wrong, and now she and Wally are both afraid of flunking fourth grade. To make matters worse, the disgusting but beautifully wrapped presents they gave each other end up in the wrong hands. But even the worst situation can provide insight, and the girls and boys begin grudgingly to accept one another. Introduce middle readers to all the books so that they can enjoy the feud in its entirety. Karen Hutt

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 214 KB
• Print Length: 162 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0440413834
• Publisher: Yearling (December 24, 2008)
• Sold by: Random House Digital, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001OM52FG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,120 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #19 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Holidays & Festivals > Christmas
  • #46 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Children's Fiction > People & Places > Holidays & Festivals
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More About the Author

I guess I've been writing for about as long as I can remember. Telling stories, anyway, if not writing them down. I had my first short story published when I was sixteen, and wrote stories to help put myself through college, planning to become a clinical psychologist. By the time I graduated with a BA degree, however, I decided that writing was really my first love, so I gave up plans for graduate school and began writing full time.

I'm not happy unless I spend some time writing every day. It's as though pressure builds up inside me, and writing even a little helps to release it. On a hard-writing day, I write about six hours. Tending to other writing business, answering mail, and just thinking about a book takes another four hours. I spend from three months to a year on a children's book, depending on how well I know the characters before I begin and how much research I need to do. A novel for adults, because it's longer, takes a year or more. When my work is going well, I wake early in the mornings, hoping it's time to get up. When the writing is hard and the words are flat, I'm not very pleasant to be around.

Getting an idea for a book is the easy part. Keeping other ideas away while I'm working on one story is what's difficult. My books are based on things that have happened to me, things I have heard or read about, all mixed up with imaginings. The best part about writing is the moment a character comes alive on paper, or when a place that existed only in my head becomes real. There are no bands playing at this moment, no audience applauding--a very solitary time, actually--but it's what I like most. I've now had more than 120 books published, and about 2000 short stories, articles and poems.

I live in Bethesda, Maryland, with my husband, Rex, a speech pathologist, who's the first person to read my manuscripts when they're finished. Our sons, Jeff and Michael, are grown now, but along with their wives and children, we often enjoy vacations together in the mountains or at the ocean. When I'm not writing, I like to hike, swim, play the piano and attend the theater.

I'm lucky to have my family, because they have contributed a great deal to my books. But I'm also lucky to have the troop of noisy, chattering characters who travel with me inside my head. As long as they are poking, prodding, demanding a place in a book, I have things to do and stories to tell.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST book, March 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle) (Paperback)

The Girl's Revenge is one of many books about the Hatfords and the Malloys.I love the sieries and think that this author is a very good writer!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reading, February 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle) (Hardcover)

The Girls' Revenge is a really good book. I like the way Phyllis Reynolds Naylor can continue this series to the fourth book without having the excitement or comedy drag. I especially liked the fact that Peter keeps going over to the enemy camp, much to his brothers' anger and embarassment. I would recommend this book to any Phyllis Reynolds Naylor fan.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect!!, April 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle) (Hardcover)

I dont know what to say it was great. I just finshed reading it so its still fresh in my mind. The one thing I can say is Naylor better make another!! If you raed the frist three books you must read this one. The whole book is great but what i reall want to read is one where the Benson's move back but the Mollys find a house in that same place that would be great. Like I said this is a must read!!