Teased by her peers because she is the youngest student in the class, Karen throws a party to celebrate turning seven-and-a-half with half a cake, half-filled goody bags, and games played halfway.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
This book wan't bas and it wasn't great,
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This review is from: Karen's Half Birthday (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, No. 78) (Paperback)
The part about Karen's party was good, but when she returnes to school, I couldn't tell if the kids that were not invited to Karen's party happy or not. I wouldn't say not to read this book, but I wouldn't exactly reccomend it either.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Karen's half birthday turns into a disaster!,
By Raj "raj_thatsme" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Karen's Half Birthday (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, No. 78) (Paperback)
Synopsis: The book starts off with 7 year old Karen Brewer playing freeze tag with her best friends Hannie Papadakis and Nancy Dawes. Later all the kids in Ms. Colman's class talk about a new TV show they are watching called "Friends and Company". Karen feels left out of the conversation because she is not allowed to stay up late to watch the show. She tells everyone that her TV broke, so she couldn't watch it, but tells the truth to Hannie and Nancy. Jannie Gilbert overhears this conversation and tells Pamela Harding, Karen's "best enemy" about it. Pamela announces the real reason for Karen not watching the show to the entire class, and soon everyone starts teasing Karen and call her a baby.
Feeling dejected, Karen tells everyone that teasing is wrong, by writing a detailed letter on the blackboard during lunchtime. After reading the letter, everyone feels guilty and apologizes to Karen, and some of them even give her gifts as an apology. Afterward, the Three Musketeers (Karen, Hannie and Nancy) have a Lovely Ladies party and discuss what they would be wearing for Halloween, and think it would be fun to go trick or treating alone without any grownups. Karen also realizes that her half-birthday is coming up in two weeks, and thinks of an idea on having a half-birthday party, where she will invite half her friends, receive half the gifts, and do everything like a regular birthday, but in half. However, when she sends out invitations to half the students in class, a lot of other students get angry at Karen for not inviting them, and those who do get invited feel grumpy because they don't like the idea of giving a half present, but they don't want to seem rude to Karen after having teased her in class. The party turns out to be even worse, when Karen stops every game in half, and only fills the goody bags in half for the guests. Can Karen somehow stop her party from being a complete disaster, and also get to go trick or treating alone with her friends for the first time? Review: I thought this was a fun book to read. However, I felt that this book wasn't really written well. For the first few pages, there is nothing interesting happening at all while Karen plays Freeze tag with her friends and spends time with them in the Tree-House. The Halloween parts of the book are okay, but again, nothing interesting happens in them. In fact, I didn't like Karen's attitude towards Andrew in the beginning, as she was being mean to him and didn't even apologize for it later. The main part of the half birthday story starts only after page 35, and that is when the book really gets good. However, I also liked reading the part where Karen's classmates tease her for not watching the show. I think Karen's response to handling that situation was appropriate. I also felt that Karen should have realized how bad she was treating her guests in the party itself when she saw that they were not having a good time, rather than finding out her mistake only after they started making fun of her again in class for her behavior. However, that is not to say that this book is bad. Some parts which I enjoyed reading were when Karen writes on the blackboard to tell a message to her classmates, the idea of a having a half birthday party, and how she involves Andrew to go trick or treating with her. The illustrations by Susan Tang were wonderful as always, and I liked the ones where Pamela is making fun of Karen, when everyone looks disappointed at her half birthday party, and Karen and Andrew in their Halloween costume. Overall, I did enjoy reading this book and the main story of the half-birthday was really very interesting, but I felt that if the author had written in such a way that there were more details and changes to the problems that I mentioned above, I think this would have been a great book to read.
4.0 out of 5 stars
I liked it,
By A Customer
This review is from: Karen's Half Birthday (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, No. 78) (Paperback)
Karen's Half Birthday is good, but Karen's idea of a half birthday is juvenile. Even for a seven year old. I recommend #7- Karen's Birthday much more than this one
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