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Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls ('n Drama Queens) is delightful! Mar 12, 2009 (3 of 3 found this helpful)
Allie Finkle had lots of rules. She'd started writing a book of them mostly, she said "so I'd know how to get along with girls." She had to admit she was afraid of some of them, but not her best friends Erica (her bestest friend), Sophie and Caroline. The only one who stayed home during Christmas vacation was Sophie, who broke her toe playing Dance Party America with her, but when they all got back together again it would be great!
Pine Heights Elementary's fourth grade class (room 209 if you want to get specific) was great until that new girl from Canada showed up. Mrs. Hunter made Allie give up her seat and move to the back of the classroom. She had to sit next to a bunch of losers (well, she could live with Rosemary). Sitting next to Stuart, Patrick and Joey wasn't going to be easy, but when the new girl Cheyenne began to take over the whole fourth grade her life began to go topsy turvy big time! Was she ever going to live through this? The Terror Triplets were going to look great in comparison.
Having had the word WHISPER slapped on MY fourth grade report card I could relate to Allie. Life sure is tough when you are only nine-years-old and some new kid on the block tells you that "let's pretend" is babyish because "Friendly People Don't Tell Other People That Their Games are Babyish." (RULE #4) I fell in love with Allie almost instantaneously and her thirteen rules are worth looking into!
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My daughter loved it! Apr 29, 2009 (1 of 1 found this helpful)
I just picked this book up because I thought my 7 year old daughter would like it and boy was I right! She couldn't put it down and really enjoyed it. We didn't realize until she was finished that it is #3 in the Rules for Girls series. She can't wait to read the first 2 books. I do need to note that while my daughter is in the 2nd grade, her reading level is at a 4th grade level, so this may be a little long for a 7 year old (200 pages).
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too Jun 21, 2009
Allie thought her life was going pretty good during holiday vacation. Her family got a new game system and she was anxious to share it with her friends when they came home from vacation.
Right before school starts up, one of her friends tells her that their teacher said they are going to have a new student when they come back. At first, Allie isn't too excited about this. But once she finds out that the new student is a girl and from Canada, the excitement sets in.
Though on her first day back, Allie is asked to sit in the back of the classroom with all the annoying, gross boys so the new girl, Cheyenne, can sit up front with the girls and feel welcome in her new class . Not long after Cheyenne starts going to Allie's school, she and her friends realize that she isn't that great.
Mostly, she's just bossy and rude. She thinks that all the girls in the fourth grade should be "going" with boys because that is the mature thing to do. Pretty soon, she ends up getting most all of the girls to even go with all the boys, but not Allie. Allie is determined to stand her ground and to not be bullied by this bully.
This was a really cute third book in the ALLIE FINKLE'S RULES FOR GIRLS series. Meg Cabot has the perfect voice of a girl in the fourth grade. I can just picture Allie and her friends. I thought some parts of this book were a little out there, but even so it was a cute read. I'm sure young girls (and even boys) around the world will enjoy this book, and the rest of the series.
I love all the little rules she makes up. My favorite rule in this book was: "Boys can seriously be so stupid sometimes. Also deeply thoughtless." So true!
Reviewed by: Breanna F.
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A Novel That Young Girls Will Learn From And Love From Beginning to End Jun 3, 2009
Allie Finkle has been the new girl at school for a while now, but it's a position she's happy to relinquish to another student.
In BEST FRIENDS AND DRAMA QUEENS, the third installment in Meg Cabot's Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series, that person is Cheyenne, a haughty girl with a world-weary attitude who seems to think that everyone around her is "immature." Allie and her best friends try to include Cheyenne in their games, only to have that "i" word thrown in their faces. With that insult, they march off, determined not to be her friend. But Cheyenne, in a flurry of sophistication, decides to transform the regular schoolyard games into a kissing match, and Allie and her friends are left to their own devices. Since they aren't interested in running after boys and kissing them, the gang becomes a target of Cheyenne's nasty derision, and many of the classmates follow suit --- until it's Allie and Cheyenne in the great slumber party showdown. Guess who wins?
Allie Finkle is an EveryGirl who is easy to like and root for. She's kind, caring, confused, funny, indignant, learning and yearning her way through prepubescence with the right balance of sassy drama and little-girl breakdown. This is a great series, and BEST FRIENDS AND DRAMA QUEENS, as this segment is so aptly named, keeps the quality stories running. From elementary school through middle school, Allie experiences friendship difficulties and traverses the early path of boy/girl relations with a degree of practicality and a refreshing nod towards wanting to stay a "kid" longer and not move too quickly into the grown-up realm in which Cheyenne thinks the rest of them are living.
Allie and her friends arrive at a level-headed decision not to "go with" the boys in their class, but it's not a choice based on fear. In a refreshing twist, it's based on the fact that the girls do just fine playing pretend and enjoying each other's company without forced relationships between the boys and the girls. This makes Allie a great role model for young girls. Teachers and parents support that decision, stating that nine-year-olds will have plenty of time for more grown-up activities when they are just that --- "grown up."
BEST FRIENDS AND DRAMA QUEENS gets an A+ for age appropriateness, the gentle way it addresses a firestarter of a topic and how the good girls win in the end. Thank you, Meg Cabot, for yet another novel that young girls will learn from and love from beginning to end.
--- Reviewed by Jana Siciliano
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Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls series May 20, 2009
I have two second grade granddaughters. Neither liked to read "chapter" books as much as I would have liked. I bought both of them Meg Cabot's Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls books 1 & 2 for Christmas. By spring, both girls were waiting for Book 3-Best Friends and Drama Queens. They felt connected even though they live in Vermont and Pennsylvania,see each other quarterly, they were excited to have this connection. They both are very different personalities but loved this connection.