Title: Millicent
Marie is Not My Name
Author: Karen Pokras Toz
Review: Millicent
Marie Is Not My Name is the story of a 6th grade girl who feels like she is
good at nothing and worst at everything.
The story opens with
Millies mother calling her down stairs, while she is writing in her diary on
her computer, she does not close it and her brother comes in and publishes her
diary on the web. After getting away
with this, he finally decides to make a blog out of her diary which is signed
Amanda, because Millicent Marie is not her name only the name her parents call
her. She longs to have a fun name, a
cute name so she has chosen Amanda to sign her diary, which by the way, she
thought was being kept private, but found to her horror it was now a blog. “DOOGLE”
"Dear Amanda
“I just read your
diary and it was very good, I am so glad your brother posted it on the web and
that now you are giving advice on a blog for those of us at Springdale that
feel like we are not popular as we want to be.
I need someone to talk to about my problems and so I want to tell you….”"
The problems at
school, not to mention the problems at home, such as parents who want to come
to everything she is in and are always making her help out around the house,
are just too much for her, so she finds writing advice to the kids at
Springdale school helps to relive the pressure, until that fateful day…..
This 6th grade year is
just beginning and Millicent Marie, who goes by Millie at school and Millicent
Marie at home, let’s Nat, her best friend since kindergarten, talk her into
doing the 6th grade play. She does not
want a part she only wants to work on the scenery but while holding the scenery
up one day she see Romeo and falls in 12 year old love. The 6th grade dance is going to be held in a
few months and her heart’s desire is to have Romeo “Jordan” to ask her,
Millicent Marie, to go, but how to get him to even notice her???
In between problems
with her 6th grade love life and dealing with “demanding parents” she is
writing a blog about the problems at Springdale such as the elimination of 6th
grade recess and while we are at it how about having 6th grade graduation like
all the other schools have?
The blog starts out
just to be a fun activity where she is receiving emails from some of the most
popular kids in school, even boys!! But
as time passes, it all gets out of hand and “Amanda” loses control of the blog
so that…..
Well I guess if you
want to know more you will just have to read the book. Good book for ages 10-12, mainly girls. I
give this book five stars, it is well written for the age group it is intended
for.
Thanks go to Eileen
for this review.
Publisher: Expected publication: October 11th 2012
by Grand Daisy Press
ISBN: 9780984860852
Copyright: 2012
Quick Review: 5 out of 5-well written for the age
group it’s intended for.
Why I Read It:
Sent by the author for review.
Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Millicent Marie does
not like her name. After all, she was named for a woman who died more than
fifty years ago and was not the most loveable member of the Harris family. Her
friends call her Millie, but when she writes in her diary she refers to herself
as Amanda – the name she always wished she had.
When Millie’s younger
brother finds her diary on her computer, he decides to publish it as a blog for
the entire world to see, including the boy Millie has a crush on. In the midst
of all the mayhem, Millie/Amanda discovers she is suddenly Springside
Elementary’s most sought after sixth-grade mystery gossip and advice columnist.
But not all is fun and
games, as Millie quickly learns, once she realizes feelings are at stake.
Nobody, least of all Millie, expects things to turn out as they do in this tale
of friendship and respect.
Author Biography: Karen Pokras Toz is a writer, wife and mom.
Karen grew up in Orange, Connecticut and currently lives outside of
Philadelphia with her husband and three children. In June 2011, Karen published
her first middle grade children’s novel for 7-12 year olds called Nate Rocks
the World. The second book in the Nate Rocks series, Nate Rocks the Boat, is to
be published in the spring of 2012. Karen is a member of the Society of
Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI).
Thank you so much for the review & for being a part of the Millicent Marie Virtual Book Tour!
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