Clementine, Friend of the Week
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Illustrator: Marla Frazee
Book 4 in the Clementine series
Pages: 176
Published: 2010
Age: 7+
It's Clementine's turn to be "Friend of the Week"! She gets to be line leader, collect the lunch money, and feed the fish. Even better, the other kids will make her a booklet, full of the things they value about having her in the class. After reading her friend Margaret's booklet, Clementine begins to get nervous and a little jealous; she has to get a great booklet now.
Fortunately, she has a lot of "astoundishing" ideas for getting the kids to write great stuff about her. Unfortunately, just as she's working on the best one, something terrible happens to her beloved kitten Moisturizer. Worst of all, exactly when she needs a friend the most, Margaret lets her down – or does she?
Goodreads Choice Nominee (2010
About the Clementine Series
Books in series order
- 1.Clementine(2006)
- 2.The Talented Clementine(2007)
- 3.Clementine's Letter(2007)
- 4.Clementine, Friend of the Week(2010)
- 5.Clementine and the Family Meeting(2011)
- 6.Clementine and the Spring Trip(2013)
- 7.Completely Clementine(2015)
- +Clementine: All About You Journal(2012)
Reading age: 7+ years
This series should be read in order.
Eight years old, artistic and impulsive, Clementine has flaming red curls and an unintentionally devious streak. In spite of her good but misunderstood intentions, she gets into all sorts of trouble at school and frequently finds herself being sent to the principal's office for her misadventures.
Spectacularful ideas are always springing up in Clementine’s brain. She wants to be an artist, is excellent at noticing things and is saving up to buy a gorilla. She is kind to the point of chopping off all her own curly red hair in an effort to make her best friend Margaret feel better after a glue accident in art class! She calls her three-year-old brother by a variety of vegetable names including Cabbage, Broccoli, and Radish, and she is acutely aware that, in her family, she would not be considered “the easy one.”
Clementine’s stories are roll-on-the-floor hilarious, and Marla Frazee’s black ink drawings perfectly capture Clementine’s cheerful personality. These sweet and funny chapters books will appeal to readers who like the Junie B. Jones, Alice-Miranda and Judy Moody series as well as the Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures books, also written by Sara Pennypacker.