Carolyn Mackler

{My Thoughts} – Hannah is a ten year-old girl that is forced to deal with a lot of change in her life at the same time. Her best friend next door named Sophie moves to Canada. Her step mom adopts her. Her parents tell her she’s going to be a big sister. A new little girl moves in next door in Sophie’s old house.

Hannah doesn’t know how to deal with everything in her life that is changing. It takes her awhile but she does eventually warm up to the new girl next door. It turns out that her and Emme, the new girl, have a lot in common.

Both girls wear the same shirt the day they meet, they both hate pizza, both love to swim, both share a birthday and have names that are palindromes.All of these things and more help them to become close and best friends.

This book is about their friendship mainly, but also about how they both at the young age of ten work through all the things they are going through. They work through everything with help from one another. They get along and are best friends most days, but they do have the occasional disagreement. They are the product of what a real friendship is suppose to be like. I think that many children can learn a lot from reading this book and I can’t wait to see what my daughter thinks about it in the near future. There are so many valuable lessons within the pages of this book, that I am certain any child that reads it will have a different take on some of the everyday issues that they deal with on a normal basis.… (more)

Book Review: The Wife App
Stars: 3 x 5
Author: Carolyn Mackler @carolynmacklerbooks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster @simonandschuster
Thank you @netgalley for this ARC

Lauren, Madeline and Sophie are three best friends who all happen to be divorced.
Lauren is the last to get divorced and while celebrating the three friends come up with the idea of the “Wife App”. This is an App where anyone can sign up to be a
“wife”. After researching and proposal’s they finally get financing and the App gets published. There App becomes successful and their customer base grows.

These three women struggle with their own live and their ”life” in the App.
Will they be able to handle everything with their sucesss and their own lives. This was such an interesting concept and the book was interesting and very unique. The book was ok and personally I thought it could be so much more.

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Recommended Ages: Gr. 4-7

Plot Summary: For the last year, since Ruby moved to Manhattan, Willa and Ruby have been best friends. So when their parents announce they have actually been dating the whole time they've been friends, you would think Willa would be excited about it. But she's not, and she has to deal with Ruby being excited about it! Willa has certain things about her that she doesn't share with anyone, like the fact that she has a sleep sock, goes to an occupational therapist twice a week, and needs checklists and sticker charts at home. She doesn't want to share all of this with Ruby. Will Willa ever open up to her best friend? Will they both get accepted to the same middle school? Will Willa ever be ok with her dad's relationship?

Setting: Upper West Side, Manhattan

Characters:
Willa - 5th grader, has sensory processing disorder, vegetarian, obsessed with dogs
Benji - ~7 yo, gets carsick
Ruby Kapoor - 10 yo, "hates it when people ask her "where are you really from?"
Ruby's mom - AKA Sandyha, Indian, but "grew up in Michigan and went to law school in Connecticut"
Norie and Zoe Robbins - twins, classmates
Maureen - occupational therpist
Mom - Willa and Benji's mom, lives two+ hours away, kids go there every weekend, remarried to Bill who has shown up for the kids
Sophie - kindergartner who loves LEGOs and hates school, doesn't fit in, guidance counselor sets up a weekly time for Willa and Sophie to build LEGOs together, doesn't talk much
Joshua - Willa and Benji's babysitter for the last 3ish years, moving to law school in Chicago over the summer, knows how to handle Willa's sensory needs, gay
Avery - Willa's classmate that is always bragging and judging

Recurring Themes: friendship, divorce, blended families, two homes, happiness, sensory processing disorder, vegetarianism, dogs, LEGOs, being yourself, confidence, choices

Controversial Issues: none

Personal Thoughts: There's a decent amount packed into a short novel. Well-written and engaging, authentic, kind, understanding, warm characters. The types of adults every kid wants and should have in their life.

Genre: realistic fiction

Pacing: medium
Characters: well developed
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