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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2010
Gr 4-7 Sarah has always found Marjorie's odd behavior entertaining and charming. She never questioned their promise, made at age five, to be best friends forever. Then, in seventh grade, Marjorie's smelly lunches, love of old movies, and insistence that her friend play a big blue alien for her film production project cause Sarah to pull away. When she overhears a classmate call her a loser for hanging out wi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2010
This changing-friendship novel is refreshingly presented without villains or victims. In kindergarten, Sarah and Marjorie promised each other to be best friends "forever." But by seventh grade they have begun to grow apart, much to Sarah's dismay and indeed anguish—even though Sarah is the one moving on. She finds herself wishing that Marjorie was not quite so "weird"—that she would stop suddenly breaking into robotspeak a là kitschy old TV show Lost in Space, stop telling pe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
In kindergarten, Sarah and Marjorie promised to be best friends "forever." By seventh grade they've begun to grow apart, much to S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
