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The Name Game!
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Marissa Moss
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Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from USA supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback / softback, 80 pages | | Other Information: | Illustrated | | Published In: | United States, 01 July 2011 |
Daphne has never loved her name, but she can't do much to change it. So when the first day of fourth grade comes, not only does Daphne get her pre-braces retainer, but also the new teacher can't seem to remember her name. Illustrations. |
ReviewsTHE NAME GAME! Author: Moss, Marissa Illustrator: Moss, Marissa Review Date: May 1, 2011 Publisher: "Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster" Pages: "80" Price ( Paperback ): "$5.99" Publication Date: July 12, 2011 ISBN ( Paperback ): "978-1-4424-1738-0" Category: Fiction Series: Daphne's Diary of Daily Disasters Volume: 1 On her first day of fourth grade, Daphne starts a diary that quickly becomes one of doodles and disasters and sets up a new series by the creator of Amelia. In this series opener, her teacher, Ms. Underwood, mispronounces her name when calling the roll, so that classmates--except best friend Kaylee--are calling her Daffy. The very slim plot involves Daphne's discovery that the name game has happened to others. Her solution is to nickname her teacher, but she realizes that she's not the first to call her teacher Mrs. Underwear. The first-person narrative includes familiar middle-grade scenes--a trip to the orthodontist and the boredom of watching her younger brothers' soccer practice--sketches of people and things, even rebuses. In a companion story that publishes simultaneously, "The Vampire Dare", her vampire costume turns out to be a disaster, prompting classmates to claim she has cooties. Again Daphne turns the tide by transferring the onus to a cootie-catching old doll. This light reading is made even lighter by the fact that the last quarter of each volume is taken up with extra material: lists and sketches of name disasters in the first and costume disasters in the second. Hand-lettered on lined paper like Moss' hugely popular "Amelia's Notebook" (1995) and its sequels, this series is likely to appeal to the same middle-grade audience... "(Graphic fiction. 8-11)" "- KIRKUS REVIEWS May 2011"
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | | ISBN: | 1442417382 |
| EAN: | 9781442417380 | | Dimensions: | 20.22 x 15.47 x 0.58 centimeters (0.18 kg) |
| Age Range: |
5-9 years |
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