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Sixth-grade Glommers, Norks, and Me

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This book was SO refreshing. It perfectly depicts what it's like for a young teen when old friends start branching out and new friends start making their way into your heart. This book TOTALLY made its way into mine. Plus, it's HILARIOUS and SO creative. Like nothing else out there. A great read for any kid who's starting a new school. Actually, a great read for ANY kid, full stop!

By Nicki P.

My book is called Sixth Grade Glommers, Norks, and me. It is written by Lisa Papademetriou. Allie, a sixth grader tells the story, and it's about how she and her best friend Tam start becoming friends with certain people in 6th grade. The main conflict for Allie is whom she could fit in with in the new middle school. When Allie makes the soccer team she meets up with new people. Tam gets on the cheer squad with Renee and Allie felt left out. Renee gets mean, and Allie expects Tam to stand up to Renee but she doesn't. Allie calls them glommers because they always glom on to each other. She also meets up with Orren, a really smart but geeky guy who Allie calls a nork (combination nerd and dork). The conflict is between Allie and herself while she decides where she fits.

I thought it was really exciting and fun to read. I liked that there was so much information that kept combining on top of each other. I felt like I was in the part about friendship because I had a really good friend who would either really want to be with you or not want to be with you. Now I also made a lot of new friends just like Allie. That's why the main conflict kept my attention. The characters were realistic because that's normal life situations. At the end I felt proud of Allie when she says, "I was happy just to be Allie Kimball! My own me. Unique, but not alone. Not alone at all."

The author had the way of understanding how 6th grade girls can go up and down and happy and sad. The story is told by Allie. The author makes up words you never heard of like nonshocker, glommers, norks, dweebosaurus, predorka ment, and precooliar. I thought the writing was really descriptive, like "squiggly at the edges and full of weird-looking blobs." Another example is, "It looked more like a long twisty pine cone, or a gnarled tree limb covered with rough bark." That's a description of Orren's hair.

I think this book is a 9 out of 10 because if you are having trouble finding relationships, read this book. It might help you see what kind of friends to make when you go to a new school like a middle school. I would recommend this book to any girl leaving elementary school and worrying how to make new friends.

The new vocabulary Allie makes up and put at the heading of each new chapter is really funny. My favorite example is "Jockissima" which Allie says is an excellent female athlete like me.

I gobbled up Sixth-Grade Glommers in one night! Ha-de-ha, loved the definitions, but it was my need to smack Tam upside the head and give Allie a huge hug that kept me rolling through the pages so merrily. Will those Dad issues--noogies to him--be addressed in a sequel?

"One day `till 6th grade and Tam is afraid of looking like a nork," Allie Kimball writes in her diary the day before her and her best friend Tam, are heading off to middle school. They are both excited, but Allie doesn't know what lies ahead of her.

When Allie and Tam first start middle school, things go smoothly until they have their only class together, science. Allie is appalled when she spots Tam sitting with Renée. Renée has been Allie and Tam's arch enemy since 3rd grade!

When Allie gets seated in the back of the room with her new science partner, Orren the nork, she becomes jealous of Renée, and grows to dislike Orren.

But before long, Orren is a lot different than Allie expected, and she gains a new friend in him. Middle school is not quite what she expected, but great all the same.

This book is witty, well written, and really captures the universal emotions of entering middle school. It is so obvious why everyone is talking about it!!

My daughter, who generally has a disdain for reading, ABSOLUTELY loved this book. Getting her to read AND enjoy a book is like scaling MT. EVEREST! i.e nearly impossible. If you have a child more right brained than left, I absolutely recommend this book.

I really liked Allie and her family and athletic friends. They seemed like such genuinely nice people. Kudos to the author for writing an anti-Gossip Girl!

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the author lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is relatively close to my section of Connecticut. It was just one of those fun tidbits to learn about an author, especially one whose book you enjoyed!

This was the perfect Summer read - light, yet potent, and fast. The reality of change in relationships was handled very well and I came away from the book with a warm, fuzzy feeling and a smile. It is definitely recommended!

This book was on a reading list for my daughter. There was a wait list for it at the local library, so I decided to purchase it. It was very inexpensive and arrived in excellent condition. She loved it too!