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June 19, 2014 by Travis Jonker

One Star Review Guess Who? (#20)

June 19, 2014 by Travis Jonker   5 comments

Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon?

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Sigh! A precocious privileged judgemental child who sneaks around and spies on people learns nothing when she, inadvertently, hurts her friends feelings. Paparazzi in training?

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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  1. Julie Rowan-Zoch says

    June 19, 2014 at 9:30 am

    Please say it’s not my beloved Harriet the Spy?

  2. :paula says

    June 19, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Sigh! indeed. Where are the wholesome, noble characters in children’s literature?
    You are lucky you don’t have to deal with parents more than you do, Travis! They can be so dumb!

  3. Laura Purdie Salas says

    June 19, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    Got one! (I’m embarrassingly bad at these.)

  4. Julie says

    January 6, 2016 at 5:41 pm

    I wish I had written this exact review for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. I could not get into that book & really wanted to see her suffer more!! Isn’t it funny how passionately you can hate a book when you do not sympathize with the main character. Ditto for me & Wringer by Jerry Spinelli.

    • Travis Jonker says

      January 6, 2016 at 8:55 pm

      Ha! Yes, I think we’ve all been there at one time or another

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