Everything's Changed

by Julie Sternberg, Johanna Wright (Illustrator)

Overview

From the best-selling author of Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie comes the latest story about ten-year-old Celie and the changes in her life.

Celie and her family have moved an hour away from her school and her friends, and the changes don't stop there. At her new school, Celie encounters harder homework and struggles to make friends. She's torn between energetic and intriguing Mary Majors Meade and sweet but shy Charlie Larken, two classmates who do not get along. On top of adjusting to her new school, Celie deals with changes at home when her forgetful Granny and a home nurse move into her family's apartment. When misunderstandings lead to a falling out between Celie's older sister Jo and her boyfriend, Celie is determined to make it right. However, her choices lead to a dangerous situation. Will Celie be able to handle all these new changes in her life?

Once more Celie turns to her diary, filling the pages with heartfelt and often humorous entries, notes, drawings, and pages from her top-secret spy notebook.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684377060
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	04/14/2020
Series:	The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.46(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Julie Sternberg is the author of The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine: Friendship Over, The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine: Secret's Out!, Bedtime at Bessie and Lil's, Puppy, Puppy, Puppy, and the best-selling Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, along with its sequels. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, their two daughters, and Clementine, the family dog.

Johanna Wright worked a variety of jobs—Christmas elf, cupcake froster, batik shirt maker, and more—before she became a full-time author and illustrator. Her books include The Orchestra Pit and Bunnies on Ice. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit johannawright.com.

Editorial Reviews

"In this third entry in the Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine series, Celie and her family have moved an hour away from everyone... and Celie has to start at a new school. Celie turns to her diary to work out what she should do, ...(and) the experience makes her resolve to stick to her principles. Celie remains delightful, and her observations and self-examination are astute." - Booklist

"A 10-year-old girl copes with a family move as well as challenges with both new and old friends in this third book about Celie Valentine. An urban story that explores the universal themes of integrity, trust, and respect in relationships." - Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2016-12-06
A 10-year-old girl copes with a family move as well as challenges with both new and old friends in this third book about Celie Valentine. Celie Valentine Altman's family moves from Brooklyn to Manhattan in order to allow Celie's grandmother, who is becoming increasingly confused as she ages, to live with them, along with a live-in nurse. Although the new place is only about an hour by subway away from their previous home, Celie is forced to adjust quickly to life without sharing a room with her sister as well as to a new school and new friends. Via first-person diary entries on ruled paper, spy notes, and sketches made over the course of just 10 days, readers get to follow along with Celie's moral dilemmas: should she go along with the pushy Mary Majors, who seems to invite trouble wherever she goes? Should she continue to pry into her sister's boyfriend challenges against her sister's wishes? Can she be friends with both Mary and Charlie? Shouldn't she tell her parents when plans change or something is unsafe? When her decisions culminate in a minor disaster, Celie is grateful that her loving parents and grandmother can help her balance her world again. Celie and her family are white, as are Mary Majors and Charlie; her doodles reveal an awareness of New York's cultural mix. An urban story that explores the universal themes of integrity, trust, and respect in relationships. (Fiction. 8-11)

Kirkus Reviews