Clementine and the Spring Trip
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Illustrator: Marla Frazee
Book 6 in the Clementine series
Pages: 160
Published: 2013
Age: 7+
For Clementine, spring is a really big deal. It's the time for seeing her apple tree start to grow, for watching her friend Margaret go crazy with spring cleaning, and for going on the school trip to Plimoth Plantation. Clementine is ready for Ye Olden Times, but she isn't so sure about surviving lunch there-the fourth graders have strict rules about no eating sounds. (What is snicking, anyway? ) If that wasn't enough, Clementine also faces the challenges of learning Olive-language and surviving The Cloud on Bus 7.
Hearing the pilgrim lady talk about why she made the long journey from England makes Clementine think about rules. Who makes them, and what do they mean to the people who have to live with them? Today Clementine has to decide which rules are made to be broken.
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.