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Gr 5–8—Diminutive, biracial, freckled Isadora "Tink" Aaron-Martin is grounded for most of the summer after an incident with her best friend. She decides to write an encyclopedia, and in spite of the artificiality of the alphabetical format, Rivers has created a warm, funny, fast-paced story about an endearing middle schooler who keeps her cool and sense of humor when events spin out of control. Tink explains her role as the "Pe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

With time on her hands due to serial groundings, narrator Isadora (Tink) Aaron-Martin chronicles her twelve-going-on-thirteen summer and fall in encyclopedia form -- complete with detailed footnotes, cross-references, and long tangents. The book starts with "Aa" (defined as "some kind of lava"), but then the entry veers off into a flurry of introductory details. Moving through t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More