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| Title: Dear Mom
You’re Ruining My Life |
| Author: Jean Van Leeuwen |
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| Reviewer: Rachael S. ‘08 Dear Mom, You’re Ruining My Life is about a girl named Sam who
wants to be all grown up. She hates her mom when she embarrasses her. One day, after Sam
tells her mother to not embarrass her anymore Sam is at a volleyball game and her mom really
embarrasses her. Sam does not take it well. What happens to Sam and her mother’s
relationship? Read the book to find out what.
Spring 2001 |
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| Reviewer: Brittany B ’08 Dear Mom, You’re Ruining My Life is a wonderful book. It is
about a girl growing up in modern times and worrying about her feet (big), her height
(tall), and a boy at school named Brian Finnegan. Plus, her mother is signing her up at
dance lessons, and she has to dance with boys. After an accident at the parent-child
basketball game, she just wants her mom to be normal, but her mom is asking, "What is
normal?"
I found the book to be very amusing and I’d recommend it to all
girls in 5th grade.
Spring 2001 |
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| Reviewer: Lauren L. '08 Samantha
is a regular girl who lives a regular life, but she worries about everything: her big
feet, how tall she is, and boys, especially Brian Finnegan. With all these worries she has
no one to talk with her. Her father is a mathematician. Her brother always wins prizes for
his paintings, and her mother is a poet and embarrassing to her. One day, Sam’s
mother really embarrasses Sam at a parent-child volleyball game. Sam’s life is
ruined. Sam starts to think that she should just run away and live with a different
family. Better yet she should just trade her parents in for new ones. What does she do?
Fall 2000 |
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5th Grade Super Readers
Director: Betty Grant - Lower School
Reading Specialist
Web Site - Andrea Owens
Germantown Academy
Super Readers | Lower School | GAnet |
