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abigailbat's review
3.0
After the incident with Marcy, Bird's mom decides they need a new start and whisks her off to small-town Oklahoma, far away from her queen bee friends who call themselves The Six-Pack. When Bird enters her new middle school and is mistaken for the new interim principal, she decides to have fun with it while she can. Along the way she learns a thing or two about bullying.
The title is enough to sell this book to middle schoolers and the humor will win them over. I found the writing to be somewhat uneven and the plot calls for major suspension of disbelief, but if you can get past that, there's a story with a lot of heart. I'd recommend it to fans of Freaky Friday or Mean Girls.
The title is enough to sell this book to middle schoolers and the humor will win them over. I found the writing to be somewhat uneven and the plot calls for major suspension of disbelief, but if you can get past that, there's a story with a lot of heart. I'd recommend it to fans of Freaky Friday or Mean Girls.
katiegrrrl's review
4.0
A very good book about girl bullying.
Bird's mother pulls her out of school and moves her to a very small town in Oklahama after her eighth grade group "The six-packs" tease another girl. When Bird shows up for her first day of school she is mistaken as the temporary Principal who no one if the building has meet yet. From the other side of the Principal's desk Bird sees the other side of girl bullying and starts to feel bad about what she did before. She has two days as the principal to try and turn around the bullying at her new school and be a different Bird than she was before.
It stretch the imagination a bit because really is anyone going to mistake an eighth grader for a twenty-something. But it is a nice look inside the "in-group". Shows how maybe all the mean girls maybe don't want to be but are afraid not to be.
Bird's mother pulls her out of school and moves her to a very small town in Oklahama after her eighth grade group "The six-packs" tease another girl. When Bird shows up for her first day of school she is mistaken as the temporary Principal who no one if the building has meet yet. From the other side of the Principal's desk Bird sees the other side of girl bullying and starts to feel bad about what she did before. She has two days as the principal to try and turn around the bullying at her new school and be a different Bird than she was before.
It stretch the imagination a bit because really is anyone going to mistake an eighth grader for a twenty-something. But it is a nice look inside the "in-group". Shows how maybe all the mean girls maybe don't want to be but are afraid not to be.
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