Allison's Blog #1

The book that I read this week is called “Worst Enemies/Best Friends. It is about 4 middle school girls who are grade 7. I think it is a great book, and very descriptive. If you like books about ordinary middle school girls, then this is a book for you.

My connection is text to text. It is the part that Charlotte is having a horrible first day at her new school.  In another book called “Katie and the cupcake cure” (The Cupcake Diaries Series) on the first day of middle school her lifelong best friend ditches her for a bunch of mean popular girls that she met at camp. Katie is really sad and she doesn’t know what to do, where to go, and most of all, confused by why her best friend is not really her best friend anymore? Now that I have read both books, I can really tell how both of the girls must be confused, sad, and mad. Another connection that I had is that in a book called “Summer Camp Secrets”, there is a really mean girl, but the main character feels really bad for her, even though is really mean, and bullies people. (The main character experienced it!) But in the end, that girl isn’t so bad, and she was just sad, and mad that nobody liked her. This relates to this book, Worst Enemies/Best Friends where everyone doesn’t like each other, but then they find out that they are really nice girls.

The themes of this book are: friendship, accepting people, being new and being mean. I think that friendship is a big theme because Don’t read this next bit if you are going to read this book! they end up being friends and they learn to not just judge people on their first appearances, and after that, they were all best friends. Accepting people is a theme, because if the girls didn’t accept each other, and find out that they were all really nice people, then they would have never really knew each other and they would just think that they are all mean. Being new is also a theme because Charlotte is always moving to different places and having to change schools and make new friends, and she thinks that it is pointless to make friends because then she will have to be sad when she leaves to move to the next place. But, I think that Charlotte should always keep on making new friends, so that she has a lot of friends. Bullying is the last theme. It is a theme because in the beginning of the book, Katani is being really rude and mean to Charlotte, because of the first day “Incident” . I think that Katani should not have been so rude, pushy, and mean to Charlotte, especially because she is “The New Girl” and she doesn’t have any friends, and it is hard to have no friends, but already have an enemy. I have learned to just let it go, and not hold a grudge, if what someone did was an accident.   

My transformed thought is that very different people can become best friends. Avery, Charlotte, Maeve, and Katani are very different, Avery is funny, athletic, and a pet lover. Charlotte is quiet, kind, and smart. Maeve wants to be a movie star. She is bubbly, and energetic. Katani has a strong fashion sense, cool and loyal. Another transformed thought is that in the beginning, I thought that Charlotte would not have any friends because of what happened on her first day of school (I won’t tell you guys!) and that she would be treated badly by the other people. But now, Charlotte has tons of friends and everyone thinks that she is cool. So I think now that it doesn’t matter if you are new, if you are nice then people will want to be your friend.

A little more about the book: When the new girl Charlotte comes to the school, she makes everyone think that she is weird, and she does something that makes the girls that are forced to sit at the same table as each other really mad at her, even though it is just the first day! So one of the girls say that if they just have one sleepover, they might be allowed to sit at a table of their choice. All the girls think it is a good idea, but will the sleepover turn out fun, or will they stay enemies forever? Now that you know a little more about the book, I hope that you read it too!