• Reviews around mother (2.22 of 5)

    Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

    • She talks to God, sharing her concerns and asking for help as she tries to determine if one of her parents' religions (father's Jewish, mother's Christian) is right for her (by attending synagogue with her energetic grandmother and church with her friends)
    • His mother is overwhelmed and his father is rather unconnected to the day-to-day life of the family, while his brother is a bit out of control.
    • On the whole, however, writing in impressive, true-to-cognition prose, she enters the mind of a nine-year-old urbanite boy with fairly typical childhood angst: an occasionally nagging mother, serious love-hate tension with the neighbor girl his age, above all the terrors inflicted by pesky younger siblings where huge age difference is involved
    • I begged my mother to buy it for me.
    • I hated my mother and slouched into the back seat as she drove away
    • Her mother was just plain selfish and mean over this and that's not appreciated at all
    • Elizabeth N.J. The cast includes Rusty, a single unwed mother
    • agreed.""My mother sure worries about silly things!"Even the father says, when the mother is out of town, "see
    • both my mother and daughter loved this book a great book to share after you have read it a great read!
    • While Fudge's tantrums and transgressions in making Peter's life miserable are told in amusing detail, so are the miscalculations and derelictions of his father (yelled at by his bosses, he can't even make an omelet or go to the movies without losing his toddler) and especially his mother--who, if the true backstory were known, was probably nursing a 1970s Valium addiction, for this would explain why she is helplessly and continually driven to call upon sage Peter to mediate with the defiant toddler she can't control
    • She feels torn between two sides, worried that she will lose her father if she goes with her mother's religion, or that she will lose her mother if she goes with her father's religion
    • I WON’T reads like an uninspired memoir
    • Sometimes I didn`t like Nancy for not telling the truth or making fun of Margaret
    • n’t approve of how Margaret’s grandmother spoiled her with private schools and many more things.
    • I WON’T is actually a coming of age story
    • Judy Blume creates a beautiful and captivating story for young teenage girls and sends a silent message telling them that whenever they felt slow T growing or weird, every other girl around her felt the exact same way
    • I WON’T is a pretty good novel about a pubescent boy growing up in New York in the seventies