Cute. I'd let my grandchildren read this series (if I had any). ( )

This book is about a girl named Charlotte who love's to write and has a traveling ayher as a dad. She is a new girl at Abigal Adams junior high school.she get's an asinged seats in the cafetiria. At first she hates the people at her table and totaly imbareses herself by forgetting to zip up her jeans in the morning, finds out at lunch and zips it into the tablecloth! she does evechualy become close friends with the girls at her lunch table.They even make a a club called the becon street girls and meet on the ''tower'' on Charlotte's new home.I realy liked this book because the chapters are in all of the different beacon street girls perspective. I also like this book because it is one of my favoite genres.I highly recomend this book to 4th grade girls. ( )

Good. ( )

“Beacon Street Girls” by Anne Bryant is a series of books aimed toward tween/teenage girls. The first book in the series is “Worst Enemies/Best Friends.” The premise of the story is that Charlotte, who is a tween, has moved a lot due to her father being a writer. When they move again, he asks Charlotte where she wants to go and she says that she wants to go to Brookline, Massachusetts where she was born and lived for the first four years of her life. Charlotte’s mother died when she was four.

Being a new girl is hard and starting junior high is hard, so Charlotte had a lot to be worried about when she starts at Abigail Adams Junior High. It is through her experiences here that she learns that first impressions are not always correct. We follow Charlotte as she navigates being the new girl, finding out that not everyone is as she thinks they are, that families are made up differently (some have no mother, others are adopted, etc.) , that having a crush on a boy can cause problems between friends and more. We don’t just see things through Charlotte’s eyes, though. We also have narration from the other girls in the book that become Charlotte’s friends.

I would highly recommend this book to tween/teenage girls. The characters are all plausible and the situations that arise are common enough that any teenage girl can relate to something in the story. This is a series that parents don’t’ have to worry about anything being inappropriate in it such as language or sexual situations. ( )

Charlotte is new in Boston and has a hard time making friends. Even though in this story the girls fought they realized how important their friendship was to them. ( )