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Mango Delight is a Charming Story of Middle School Friendship
This particular school year might be over for many kids, but friendship drama goes on, and the summer is a great time for reading about it. Mango Delight is a fast-paced and fun book that will inspire kids taking on the social challenges of middle school next fall!
Mango Delight is getting through middle school just fine with her best friend Brooklyn at her side. Together they mock the gaggle of cell-phone addicted girls, a group they can’t join because their parents have yet to indulge them with phones of their own. But then Brooklyn gets one, and suddenly she’s not Mango’s friend anymore. And when Mango accidentally drowns Brooklyn’s new phone in a bathroom sink, she becomes an all-out enemy.
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Mango now has no friends, and has been barred from after-school track as a punishment for the cell-phone drowning. Fortunately she is not alone for long. Izzy, a Mexican American girl who was her friend back when they were little, is ready to offer friendship again, and she is there to give Mango a much-needed confidence boost when Mango finds she’s been slotted into an audition for the school musical, thanks to Brooklyn, who meant the audition as a malicious attack. But Mango lets her lovely voice, previously only heard in the bathroom at home, soar, and gets the lead role. Now she’s part of a group of fun, smart, drama kids. Her new status even brings her attention from Hailey Joanne, the leader of the cell-phone pack, an uber-rich girl who now wants to be friendly and who has posted Mango’s audition (Beyoncé’s “Halo”) to You-tube, where it’s taking off like crazy.
Mango doesn’t trust Hailey Joanne, but sees an opportunity to promote her Jamaican father’s struggling catering business; if Hailey Joanne’s parents hire him, other rich families will follow. So she lets Hailey Joanne thinks she’s a friend…and ends up hurting her pretty badly. Everything works out in the end, though (and Mango even gets her own phone).
It’s a heartwarming story that beautifully captures the ups and downs of middle school friendship (though Mango’s fairytale success with both the musical and with the charming boy who plays the male lead are not going to happen to most kids, and Izzy turns out to be such a wise, supportive friend that she sets the bar awfully high). Though there are bumps on the road, Mango comes to believe in herself, and as her understanding of other people grows, so does her confidence and her own ability to be a good friend.
Mango Delight is on B&N bookshelves now.