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| When Eve is forced to start at a new school in the middle of eighth grade, she takes it as an opportunity to please her parents by blending in with the popular crowd. Having always been an outcast, she is surprised by how easy it is to appear "normal." But there is a price to pay for pretending to be someone she is not. Finally, she can no longer keep her real feelings bottled up, and she goes back to being herself. Not only is she happier this way, but others like her true self better. |
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| Grade 5-8-Eve has three problems: she thinks too much, speaks too candidly, and doesn't want to act or look like a "normal girl." After her family moves so her mother can return to work, Eve's father, who has become a "househusband" since losing his job, suggests that Eve try to change her behavior. She makes friends with the popular girls, wears designer clothes, and acts snobbish to fit in, but finds it difficult to suppress her real personality. She releases her frustrations by keeping a "vent" journal and writing under a pseudonym for a "Mouth Off" column in the local paper. Eventually, her false personality is exposed when one of her new friends shows up unexpectedly to discover that Eve's home situation is far from "normal." Exaggerations about Eve's father's activities are overdone and her mother's abrupt change from "cleanaholic" to indifference about the mess is difficult to swallow. The biggest inconsistency, however, is that intelligent Eve is not able to figure out that her father's request for her to conform makes no sense in light of his own situation. The conclusion, in which Eve goes back to school as her real self and is instantly accepted by a new group, is too easy. P.S. Longer Letter Later (Scholastic, 1998) by Paula Danzinger and Ann Martin is a much better book about a father losing a job, acceptance of self, speaking one's mind, and expressing oneself through writing.
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| I love this book! Eve Belkin's world gets turned upside down when her dad gets fired and her family has to move. Her dad has been avising her to turn over a new leaf, because he thinks his daughter shouldn't be tomboy. Eve admits she has always hated that saying, but she is tired of being lonely and friendless so she takes her dad's advice. While she makes some "friends" she is still unhappy because she can't be herself. Eventully her lies become untnagled, and she finds out all she needs is herself and sowhat if she's friendless? But in the end our Eve finds frienship and herself.
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