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Title: Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls: Moving Day
ISBN: 0545039479
Author:
Meg Cabot
Publicate Date: 2008-03-01
Publish: 2008-03-01
List Price: $15.99
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: A surefire hit
Allie Finkle is nine years old, but she has issues --- serious issues. First of all, she accidentally touched her friend's uvula with a spatula, and now Mary Kay is barely speaking to her. She also must think about the bombshell her parents recently dropped on her --- that they are moving from their lovely suburban split-level to a haunted fixer-upper in another town where she faces the prospect of having to attend a new school and make new friends. Add two bratty little brothers and the possibility of a new pet kitten into the mix, and you have fourth-grade chaos!
Allie, however, is a resourceful and intelligent girl. As she states herself, "I like rules. The reason why is, rules help make our lives easier. That's why I like science and math. You know where you stand with them, rulewise. What I'm not so crazy about is everything else. Because there are no rules for everything else." And so goes Meg Cabot's opening installment in her first series for tweens, Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. Book one is subtitled MOVING DAY, and it's a joy to read.
Allie manages to override her every disappointment (her relocation to an ancient Victorian house, the unwanted specter she insists is living in their new dilapidated attic, the loss of her beloved and hard-won rock collection at her old home) with a measure of both grace and bravado that will have young readers cracking up. She is a great heroine --- plucky and snarky as well as resourceful and honest --- though she is not above the kind of annoyance that most girls her age would experience, especially sharing a house with two younger brothers. But she isn't snotty or a gossip, and her interests are not limited to fashion and Bratz-oriented activities. In short, Allie is an honest-to-goodness all-American kid.
Cabot has created Allie so that there are a million and one different things that can happen to her in order to make a complete book series (and perhaps a TV program or the occasional film adaptation, which the author is used to watching her work morph into, ala The Princess Diaries). Like Harriet the Spy or Henry Huggins, Allie is a typical kid with a normal life that is heightened just enough to make good drama, teach some lessons without feeling moralistic, and bring the reader into occasional convulsions of laughter. Not a bad prospect.
Allie's interest in math and science is a great addition to her other "kid" things. Since there is a push in education to make these pursuits more amenable to girls, especially at this age, Cabot does everyone a favor by highlighting them. But Allie is no geek. She's not some genius blowing things up in a home-basement lab, which is a relief. This is a trend that I hope becomes a popular one for other writers in this genre.
Cabot's winning tone and characterizations will make Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls a surefire hit with its target audience as well as parents who care to provide their children with role models you can't find in other media created for this age group. Long live Allie Finkle!
--- Reviewed by Jana Siciliano
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2: Great Read for Tween Girls
Allie has always been good about knowing life's rules, just not always following them. Her life is filled with turmoil as her family announces their attention to move, something Allie is not excited about and which causes a huge fight between her and her best friend. Filled with Meg Cabot's typical humor and keen insight into life as a girl, this book is great for readers who enjoyed the movie of the The Princess Diaries but aren't quite ready for the book.
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3: A great book for any girl
Rule #1- Dont stick a spatula down your best freind's throught.
Why not? I could cause serius crying from a person like Mary Kay, and could make you loose your best friend. Unless that is what you are aiming for.
Allie Finkle is moving into a "haunted house"( or at least that is what her neibor's older brother says). Allie has a hard time ajusting to her new surrounings. She does many odd things, including rescuing a turtle from becoming turtle soup at a resturant, avoiding her new basement because there might be a hand up there, and leting a pedegre persian cat out of a suitcase and out into the streets. That results pretty good, considering the fact the cat met up with a male cat, and had kittens! Allie actually gets to possibly have one, but soon gets that privledge taken away from her. If I were you, Id read this book to find out the rest of what happens to Allies kitten, her attic, the turtle, and her new best friend.
Read this book and loved it? Read the second one: Allie Finkles Rules for Girls 2: New Girl. And what if you cant get enough of Allie? Go to www.alliefinklerules.com for fun games and message boards!
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4: Brooke from Lake Tapps says, Rules Rule!
Rules..... rules.... rules. What do you think of when you here that word, be quiet in the library or always wash your hands before dinner. Not to Allie Finkle, to her, rules are really exciting, in fact she actually writes rules in a book.
Allie Finkle has a lot of stuff hanging over her head like, having a best friend who cries a lot, two annoying little brothers, promises to keep with her Uncle Jay and possibly MOVING into a HAUNTED house! Some of her rules are kind of funny like "don't stick a spatula down your best friends throat", if that's not funny then I don't know what is. Allie has a HUGE imagination(as you can see). This book has a ton of cliff- hanging chapters.
My favorite part in this book is when Allie saves the Lung Chung turtle, Wang Ba from getting eaten! Allie has to be really smart about hiding because a waitress, her dad, her mom and her Uncle Jay are chasing her. But when her Uncle Jay finds her he doesn't make Allie give the turtle back, he makes a deal with her! I love this part in the book because I am an animal lover and I love to see people stick up for animals.
These are only a few of the characters in Allie Finkle's rules for girls:
Brittany Hauser-the meanest girl in Mrs.Myers class
Mary Kay- Allie's "best friend"
Courtney Wilcox- Brittany Hauser's "best friend"
Uncle Jay-Allie's awesome uncle
Erica- the girl who lives next to the HAUNTED house
Out of all of the details in this book I would probably pick, "Lady Serena Archibald was beautiful. She had long, silky gray fur and big blue eyes. And when I went over to pet her, Lady Serena Archibald turned those big blue eyes up to look at me and she opened her tiny mouth, mrow in the cutest way you could possibly imagine." I think that is funny because it's nothing like the rest of the lines in the book.
I would definitely recommend this book to girls who like realistic-fiction or just a great book!
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5: Madison from Lake Tapps says "A personal favorite!"
Never be a catcher when Brittany Hauser is up to bat, you can't let your guests starve, and don't stick a spatula down you best friend's throat are three out of the many rules from the book Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls.
Allie Finkle is a spunky nine-year old girl who collects geodes, writes rules, and loves animals. Her life is going pretty well until her parents drop the big news on her. She's moving! Even with the promise from her parents to get a new kitten and there is neighbors with a nice girl her age she is still not convinced. But one thing she is convinced about is that there is a zombie hand living in her new houses attic. Once her parents tell her she is moving her life starts going down hill. Her so called "best friend" Mary Kay is no longer her best friend and when Brittany Hauser tries to get them to be friends again she ends up making it even worse then it already is. Will Allie ever be happy? Will she actually move into the "haunted house" ?
My favorite part of the book is when Allie saves a turtle at the Lung Chung restaurant from being made into turtle soup. Allie hides in the back of a car while people including the staff at the Lung Chung restaurant and her own family runs around looking for her.
I like that part the best because I love animals and if I were Allie I would probably do the same thing. Also because it was really funny.
There is only one part in the book that I didn't like. It was when Brittany played lady business executive and shoved her mother's fancy show cat into a suitcase and ran around while swinging it.
Some of the characters from this book are:
Brittany Hauser- a spoiled brat that abuses animals and throws bats.
Mary Kay Shiner- Allie's "best friend" that cries when things don't go her way.
Courtney Wilcox- a nice girl that's gets dumped by her best friend for somebody else.
Scott Stampley- A annoying boy in Allie's class that ruined her friendship with Mary Kay.
Erica Harrington- Allie's could be new best friend.
I would recommend this book to girls about the ages of 11-14. It was really good and I could not put it down. I know others would feel the same way if they read this book and maybe be able to relate to Allie like I did!
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