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Clementine at her best. Funny, sweet, sensitive. I love Clementine's imagination - who else would, when her friend asks for a goat "tattoo", draw a bush and tell her friend that the goat was behind it? But it's how Clementine deals with the disappearance of her cat that was most poignant.

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4.0

Another hit in the Clementine series! Clemetine's ecstatic when she's chosen to be Friend of the Week in her third-grade classroom! She gets to lead the Pledge of Allegiance, tell the class her autobiography, and, best of all, she'll get a Friend of the Week booklet with compliments from all her classmates at the end of the week. When Margaret tells her that she ought to be giving compliments and presents to her classmates to make sure they write nice things about her, Clementine has a few ideas. But then something terrible happens - Clementine's kitten Moisturizer goes missing! And only a true friend can help find him.

Clementine's an unforgettable character and this new addition to the series will please Clementine fans and win over new ones.

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5.0

I love Clementine books ... she's such a precocious 3rd grader, but cute at the same time! These are great stories because they are also fun to read aloud to classes.

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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4.0

Oh, Clementine, how I <3 thee. Given how cool her parents are tho...I just wished they'd had a collar and tags on the cat, even tho the story wouldn't have worked if they had. :(

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Third-grader Clementine is super-excited because she's been chosen as Friend of the Week in her class. She gets to collect milk money, be the line leader, and present her life story to the class. At the end of the week, she'll get a booklet in which her classmates write nice things about her. Clementine decides that she should do favors for people (like giving them "tattoos" and helping them decorate their bikes for the bike rally) so that her classmates will be inspired to write lots of nice comments about her. Her week sours, though, when she has a fight with her friend Margaret, and gets even worse when she looses her kitten, Moisturizer. Once Moisturizer is gone, Clementine doesn't care about anything other than finding him. She learns that her classmates really care about her, though, because they band together to help her find her lost kitten. In the end, Moisturizer is safe and sound, and Clementine learns what it means to be a true friend.

This is an adorable story! I love the names that Clementine gives to the animals in her life. Besides Moisturizer, there's Flo-Max the lizard, which, when I read that name, made me laugh out loud. She also calls her brother various vegetable names (Mung Bean, Turnip, Corn), because she thinks that's only fair since she's named after a fruit. This is a great series to recommend to kids who like the Ramona or Junie B. Jones books.

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