The new girl

Format:

Book (regular print)

Title:

The new girl

Author:

Cabot, Meg.

ISBN:

9780545040495

9780545040426

9780545153928

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 20 cm.

Series title(s):

Allie Finkle's rules for girls ;

Number in series:

BK. 2.

Summary:

Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settling into their new home.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.2 6.

Subject(s):

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Bullying -- Juvenile fiction.

Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.

Rules (Philosophy) -- Juvenile fiction.

Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.

Best friends -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

Bullies -- Fiction.

Grandmothers -- Fiction.

Rules (Philosophy) -- Fiction.

Moving, Household -- Fiction.

Best friends -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Family life -- Fiction.

Genre:

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Summary

There's a whole new set of rules to learn when you're the new girl!

When you are starting at a brand-new school, you have to wear something good.

Allie Finkle's starting her first day of school at Pine Heights Elementary! Plus, she's getting a new kitten, the first pick of show cat Lady Serena Archibald's litter!

But being the New Girl is turning out to be scary, too, especially since one of the girls in Allie's new class -- Rosemary -- doesn't like her. In fact, Rosemary says she's going to beat Allie up after school.

Author Notes

Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana on February 1, 1967. She recieved a fine arts degree from Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City, intent upon pursuing a career in freelance illustration. Illustrating, however, soon got in the way of Meg's true love, writing, and so she abandoned it and got a job as the assistant manager of an undergraduate dormitory at New York University, and writing on the weekends.

Meg wrote both The Princess Diaries and The Mediator: Shadowland (under the name Jenny Carroll), the first books in two series for young adults which happen to be about, among other things, teenage girls dealing with unsettling family issues. Her latest book is entitled, Insatiable.

Meg now writes full time, and lives in Key West, Florida with her husband.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-5-Allie Finkle recently moved into a big old house with her parents and two brothers and is beginning fourth grade. On her first day as the new girl at Pine Heights Elementary School, she has to eat popcorn for breakfast, is embarrassed by her little brother who insists he's a pirate, wears the wrong outfit for making a good first impression, and makes an enemy of the class bully. On top of all that, she soon discovers that Lady Serena Archibald, a show cat pregnant with Allie's promised kitten, is ill and may lose all her babies. How can this girl handle all these complications? Narrator Tara Sands breezes through Meg Cabot's second entry (Scholastic, 2008) in the series with an enthusiastic, youthful voice for Allie as she deftly voices more than a dozen supporting characters. This enjoyable story about the plucky youngster's struggles to deal with her family, friends, enemies, and the tricky situations life throws at her is an audio treat for girls who will easily relate to this realistic character.-Jennifer Verbrugge, Dakota County Library, Galaxie Branch, Apple Valley, MN (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.