Library Book Review #4: Just Grace
Kirsten
The teacher goofed. She should have called all the Graces by their initials, and then the Grace telling the story wouldn’t have started complaining right away. She seems like she wants to be seen as a good girl, but all the whining and complaining she does gets in the way. I’m kind of sorry I picked this book.
Like Emily the Strange, this journal book had really fun chapter headers, photos, and drawings.
Kaya
Did not like the main character. It seems the only
nice thing about her is that she likes cats and tries to help people when they
feel bad. She wants to be a hero, even an unlikely hero, but she thinks about
herself almost all the time.
Lanie
Wow! My thoughts don’t sound like this. She is
definitely a glass half empty person. Doesn’t seem to like anyone but Mimi,
Jordan, Augustine Dupre
(why does she say her full name all the time?), and Mr. Crinkles.
Melody
So this whining is annoying; almost made me not want
to finish the book. But I pushed through to the end. What did I learn? When you
have a million different things going through your head you miss obvious clues.
If Grace were as generous as her name then she would have remembered that
Augustine left her window open for Mr. Crinkles. Can’t say any more…don’t want
spoilers. In the end it was an okay story, but I won’t recommend it to my
friends and I won’t read it again.
Xyra
I really had to force myself to continue reading this one.
This is a journal style story seen specifically through the eyes of Grace and
she does a lot of whining at the beginning and throughout the book, but the
beginning was the worst.
The author really knows how to
channel her inner child and think and speak and write in that pattern. A
completely different take on "stream of consciousness."
As I noted above, Grace whines about what she can't do, doesn't
like, doesn't learn, etc. In addition, Grace is sneaky. Had she gone to her
parents with her plan all would have been better.
There
are a couple redeeming situations throughout the book.
1. Grace
tries to help a neighbor.
2. Grace does eventually open her eyes to
see another side of Sammy.
Other than that, Grace really
sounds like a whiny, selfish brat the whole way through the book. Thankfully
this was a short book and didn't take a lot of time. I read the first 20+ pages
one night and the rest the following day.
[I don't
remember being this judgmental when I was in elementary or middle
school.]
As journal style books go, I did like the
doodles, pictures, and headers in this one. However, I prefer Emily the
Strange's prattling to Grace's whining.
Happy Reading!
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