Blast from the Past
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Series
Author: Meg Cabot
Book 6 in the Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series
Pages: 240
Published: 2010
Age: 8+
Allie's excited about her class field trip. She gets to ride on a bus, which she never gets to do because she lives so close to school that she actually has to walk there every day!
But then Mrs. Hunter announces that every student in Room 209 has been assigned a "buddy" for the day – from Allie's old 4th grade class at Walnut Knolls Elementary School, with whom Pine Heights Elementary is pairing up for the trip. And Allie's buddy just happens to be her ex-best friend Mary Kay, who betrayed Allie right before she moved! Allie is going to have to spend a whole day sharing an old-timey desk with a big crybaby!
About the Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Series
Books in series order
- 1.Moving Day(2008)
- 2.The New Girl(2008)
- 3.Best Friends and Drama Queens(2009)
- 4.Stage Fright(2009)
- 5.Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out(2010)
- 6.Blast from the Past(2010)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
Allie Finkle is nine years old. She has two annoying little brothers and a dog called Marvin. She's also got a bunch of rules, most of them—like 'Don't get a pet that poops in your hand'— having been discovered through bitter experience. In this funny, fast-moving series, Allie makes (and breaks) rules all over the place as she deals with everything that life can throw at her.
For instance, Allie absolutely DOES NOT want to move house. Moving means leaving behind her pretty pink room and her best friend, Mary Kay. The new house is cold, old, dark and creepy, and there is almost definitely a ZOMBIE HAND living in the attic! Listening to your parents is a golden rule, but how can Allie convince her family that moving is a very bad idea?