Buddies

By Barbara Park

Book Overview

A thirteen-year-old goes to camp yearning to be popular, but is hampered by an unattractive cabin mate who wants to be her friend. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394869346
• ISBN13: 9780394869346
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Good buddies

Dinah has never been very popular. In fact, she really has only one friend who is kind of a nerd. For the next two weeks, she plans to live a different life while away at camp. Unfortunately, before she can even board the bus, she becomes responsible for Fern, a girl whose hygiene practices will prevent her from being popular. Dinah's problem is that she is just too nice. When she meets two girls at camp who she really wants to be friends with it doesn't take long before they all realize that Fern does not fit in with the group. But, how to tell her is the trick. Dinah spends a lot of time dealing with this issue.This was a great book that shows how to deal with friendships and going away to camp. It is appropriate for fourth and fifth graders and will probably be more interesting to girls.Why 4 stars?:"Buddies" shows friendships in different lights and attempts to highlight the importance of different people in our lives. It is age appropriate for fourth graders and above. I only took a star off because the ending was somewhat incomplete. The story did not tie up all of the loose ends quite as well as I would have expected. Perhaps, Mrs. Park was expecting this to become as popular as her Junie B. Jones series. In any case, this book is still worth the read and if you can find it, it will make a nice addition to a school or classroom library.