Summer is coming, and Clementine is not ready. But which is worse, saying good-bye, or not saying good-bye? Everything else may be changing around her, but that doesn't mean that Clementine has. D'Matz is going to tell her all kinds of things that aren't true. What Clementine really isn't ready for is saying good-bye to her third grade teacher. Clementine just hopes the baby won't be a dud. She's suddenly crazy about cleaning (Dad says she is nesting), but she doesn't even have a name picked out yet. Clementine's mom sure doesn't seem ready. Instead, she has to express her sadness by giving him drawings of animals she knows would not want to be somebody's dinner. She is not ready to start speaking to her father again, because she's still mad at him for eating meat. If that wasn't enough, Clementine alsoįaces the challenges of learning Olive-language and surviving the fourth graders have strict rules about Ready for Ye Olden Times, but she isn't so sure about surviving On the school trip to Plimoth Plantation.

It's the timeįor seeing her apple tree start to grow, for watching herįriend Margaret go crazy with spring cleaning, and for going Should be something like: 'We're getting a gorilla.'īut no, it's something entirely different.įor Clementine, spring is a really big deal. As far as Clementine is concerned, the agenda Sign is up in her house, and she just knows she's in troubleįor something. Kitten, Moisturizer, vanishes, and Clementine must faceĬlementine's having a nervous breakdown.

Margaret makes Clementine worry that her classmates won'tįind enough good things to write about her in her 'Friend Means ruining his chance for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. She hatches a plan to get him back, even if it

Uh-oh! Clementine's teacher might be leaving the class,Īfter she's finally figured out how to get along in hisĬlassroom. Of Talent Palooza draws closer, Clementine grows desperateįor an act - any act - she can perform. Many she has to organize them alphabetically. Has plenty of talents, but not a single one that she can To raise money for the school's Spring Trip. The third and fourth graders are putting on a talent show They're up to something mysterious.are they thinking they'dīe better off if they only had her little vegetable-named Might consider her 'the hard one' in the family. She's worried that Margaret is right: Clementine's parents Things get worse each day of the week, until finally Out her friend Margaret, but ends up in a lot of troubleįor it. In this first book of the series, Clementine tries to help

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