It's Not the End of the World
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Family / General
3.9
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Judy Blume
Karen couldn't tell Mrs. Singer why she had to have her Viking diorama out of the sixthgrade showcase. She felt like yelling, To keep my parents from getting divorced. But she couldn't say it, and the whole class was looking at her anyway. Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house weeks before; now he was going to Las Vegas to get divorced and her mother was pleased! She had only a few days to get the two of them together in the same room. Maybe, if she could, they would just forget about the divorce. Then the Newman family could be its old self again -- maybe. But Karen knew something she didn't know last winter: that sometimes people who shouldn't be apart are impossible together. So she felt like yelling at Mrs. Singer. And then Mrs. Singer did a surprising thing....
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Author
Judy Blume
Pages
169
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2001
ISBN
0689842937 9780689842931
Ratings
Google: 4
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"This book was pretty good, but I did feel like Karen was being pretty dramatic about Mrs. Singer. But apart from that it was well written and touched in the topic of divorce nicely. And the book aged very well. Karen blamed herself and her siblings for divorce. I thought it was a little crazy that she kept track of her parents fights and who's fault it was. It was like she wanted to take sides. And although it sounds like I thought this was a decent book at best I actually enjoyed it and have read it multiple times! I hope this review helped and that you decide to read this."
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