5/30/2023 0 Comments Clementine by Sara Pennypacker![]() She saddles her kittens with monikers straight out of the medicine cabinet (Mascara, for example). She calls her brother by vegetable names (Squash, Pea Pod, Rutabaga, etc.), because it's not fair that she has a fruit name, while he has a regular name. ![]() Clementine is alert and inquisitive, has trouble paying attention to her lessons, and finds herself in scrape after scrape, despite the best of intentions. (It happens.) Throughout the rest of the book, Clementine and the principal spend quite a bit of time together. Her best friend Margaret lives upstairs.Īs the story begins, Clementine is in trouble at school for an incident involving the cutting off of Margaret's hair. She lives with her parents and three-year-old brother in the basement of an apartment building (apparently somewhere in Boston - but really, that didn't influence my review at all. (I think it's no coincidence that Clementine is a redhead.) But she's unique and memorable in her own right, too.Ĭlementine is eight, struggling with third grade. ![]() She's like a cross between your pesky younger sister, a young Anne Shirley, and Pippi Longstocking. Clementine (the book) is an instant classic. I knew from the reviews at A Year of Reading and MotherReader that I would enjoy Sara Pennypacker's Clementine. ![]()
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