RJ #18

Dear Mrs. Zither,

I currently finished reading, How I survived middle school: Can you get an F in lunch? By: Nancy Krulik. This is book one in the How I survived middle school series.

I used six strategies while reading two before, two during and two after.

Two before:

1. I read the synopsis
2. I went on a website about the book to see what other people thought about it.

Two during:

1. after every chapter I summarized what I read

1. if I did not understand something I would re-read it

Two after:

1. I summarized the book in my head
2. I discussed it with my mom

The P.O.O. Is chronological order, it is this because it goes by time. P.O.V. Is 1^st person because The main character was speaking. The author's purpose was to entertain with a story of a girl and her first 1^st week and a half in middle school.

This book is about a girl who just finished summer camp and can't wait to see her best friend Addie, and her other friends Rachel and Felicia so they can handle their first year of middle school [sixth grade]. But when she gets there she finds out that summer while Jenny was at summer camp Addie spent the whole summer at swim camp with the popular girls! Now Addie doesn't want to hang out with Jenny because it will lower her coolness factor and she won't get to hang out with the popular kids anymore. All she has Is Rachel and Felicia and they don't have the same lunch schedule as Jenny. So the whole week she sits in crazy places for lunch [hence, the title] with no friends, once she even sat in a phone booth! She even got sent on a wild goose chase by some 8^th graders to find the pool, but there isn't one!Then she meets Chloe, Marilyn, Carolyn, Marc, Liza and Josh. She befriends them and they start to hang out and one day, Addie just gets on Jenny's last nerve and Jenny throws a pudding cup at her, then Addie and Jenny are having their own personal food fight. At the end everyone in school cheers Jenny, and the mean 8^th graders that pranked her apologized.

The figurative language are similes & metaphors.

The genre of this book is realistic fiction. There is no sub- genre.

I would rate this book 7/10 because it was cute,very releatable, and it had quizzes in the middle that Jenny “ would take”.I would recommend this book to girlsages 11-14 who are in middle school. IF YOU ARE THIS TYPE OF PERSON THEN I RECOMMEND IT TO YOU IF YOU ARE NOT DON'T!

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