Julie Tells Her Story (American Girl Collection Series: Julie) by Megan McDonald, Robert Hunt (Illustrator), Susan McAliley (Illustrator)
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- Age Range: 9 to 12
- Pub. Date: September 2007
- 92pp
- Sales Rank: 39,127
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2007
- Publisher: American Girl Publishing
- Format: Paperback, 92pp
- Sales Rank: 39,127
- Age Range: 9 to 12
- Series: American Girl Collection Series: Julie, #2
- ISBN-13: 9781593692889
- ISBN: 1593692889
Synopsis
Julie is working on her school project, "The Story of My Life," and enjoying it, until she has to write about "The Worst Thing That Ever Happened." That would be her parents’ divorce, and she doesn’t want to tell classmates about it. After her big basketball game ends badly, she decides that could be her "worst thing." But as her family rallies around her, Julie learns to be more hopeful for their future. The "Looking Back" section explores school life in the 1970s. Author: Megan McDonald. Paperback or Hardcover. 104 pages.
This book is the second in a series of six historical books filled with inspiring lessons of compassion, courage, and friendship. Julie’s entire book set includes: Meet Julie; Julie Tells Her Story; Happy New Year, Julie; Julie and the Eagles; Julie’s Journey; and Changes for Julie.
Children's Literature
Julie Albright, an up-and-coming basketball star on the boy's middle grade team is plagued by the recent divorce of her parents. Living with her mother and her older sister, she looks forward to her visits with her dad. On one such visit, he gives Julie a tape recorder so she can interview members of her family for a school project. Julie is supported during this difficult time by her two best friends. There is Ivy, who lives across the street from Julie's dad, and there is T.J., a boy Julie plays basketball with at her new school. During the course of this story, Julie works through her family problems and brings her family closer together, but not in the way she had hoped. Along the way, she learns responsibility and develops an understanding that family is family no matter where they live. Fast-paced and easy to read, this "American Girl" story is set in 1974. It gives readers a realistic feel for growing up in the seventies.
Biography
Megan McDonald is the author of the award-winning Judy Moody series and its companion series starring Stink. She is also the author of ANT AND HONEY BEE, illustrated by Brian Karas. "I used to live near my sister in Minnesota, where it’s very snowy," she says. "My sister had a mailman whose name was . . . Jack Frost. For real! I never forgot because I thought it was so funny and so magical." Megan McDonald now lives in Sebastopol, California.
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October 08, 2008: This book is about agirl living throw a hard time.Her parents are divorced and she has to write autobioghy.
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November 11, 2007: If you've read the rest of the American Girl books, you will notice a deviation in title in this volume--and several later volumes in the Julie series. There also feels like a deviation in the storyline. While the formula's similar because it's a school story and everything works out fine in the end, I notice this has more in common with the later books--Kaya, Josefina, and Kit--than it does the first three--Kirsten, Samantha, and Molly. I wanted to like Julie, but she did not seem real to me and nowadays when divorce is so common, particularly in California where this is set, her problems won't seem real to the modern reader. Even the history seems messy in this book, which supposedly takes place in 1974. Julie at one point asks, 'What's Watergate?' Given that Watergate began in 1972 and Nixon didn't resign until August of 1974, Julie would have to be particularly clueless to never have heard of it, especially in an era when young people were more interested in the news and current events. It also seems to ignore the educational problems of the 70's curriculum and just highlights how schools did more 'hands on' things. In the end, I thought this a much more shallow book than any of the 'core three' titles from American Girl. This crowd pleaser will make Mattel happy, but I miss Pleasant Rowland's company.
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