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Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item s now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout. Continue shopping Checkout Continue shopping. Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. Determined to shake off her reputation as a nerd, Lizzie puts on a new face at the start of seventh grade. She exchanges her flowing lace dresses for jeans and tank tops, feigns dumb in math in a misguided attempt to impress a boy, abandons her beloved poetry-writing and imitates the guy-pleasing giggling of a popular girl in her class.
While avoiding the melodramatic, Mills credibly conveys Lizzie's inner turmoil as she struggles to be normal yet fears she will "never understand the rules of the popular girls' game. Readers will likely turn the final page of this story hoping that this isn't the last they hear of Lizzie. Gr An enjoyable and realistic portrayal of an adolescent who is trying to fit in.
She loves to write poetry, plays the flute, and is the smartest student in her class, especially in math. She shops at thrift stores-not for ordinary clothes, but for long lacy dresses that call to mind Emily Dickinson, her favorite poet. Lizzie's uniqueness has made her the target of torment in the past. Her decision to change her situation results in a quest for "the new, improved Lizzie," but she's not sure whether taking advice from the most popular girl at school is the right idea.
Readers will cringe at the decisions Lizzie makes as she struggles toward her perceived goal of being "normal.
Mills has all the elements of middle school in place and deftly weaves a story that is both sensitive and humorous. Readers will empathize with this appealing protagonist and delight in her accomplishments. Thank you for using the catalog. Lizzie, who has always been considered a nerd by the other kids, begins the seventh grade determined to change her image so that she can blend in better with the popular crowd.
But her braininess remains an obstacle to her popularity, and Lizzie wants so to be liked, especially by Ethan Winfield.
Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. This engaging sequel to Losers, Inc. and You're a Lizzie At Last (West Creek Middle School Series) Kindle Edition. by. Lizzie At Last (West Creek Middle School Series Book 3) eBook: Claudia Mills: www.farmersmarketmusic.com: Kindle Store.
To her teacher's amazement, Lizzie begins to make mistakes in math. Ethan is horrified -- he's her math partner -- but no one is more unhappy, or confused, than Lizzie.
Will she ever find herself? Through her sparkling Lizzie Archer, Claudia Mills extends a hand to girls, gently encouraging them to be all that they can and to feel confident that like will befriend like.
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