Buffalo Brenda

by Jill Pinkwater

Book Overview

Determined to make their mark on their high school, ninth graders India Ink and her zany best friend Brenda Tuna organize an underground newspaper and then provide a live buffalo as a mascot for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689715862
• ISBN13: 9780689715860
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

great coming of age book.......

I read this when I was an outcast preteen, and still remember it well. BUFFALO BRENDA follows the adventures (and many misadventures) of Brenda Tuna and India Ink Tiedlebaum. These two eccentric girls come together, as outsiders, to unite with other misfits, in pursuit of freedom of expression, and other campaigns. Writer Jill Pinkwater (married to well-known writer Daniel Pinkwater) tells a wacky and enjoyable story about the many trials of adolescence and the important relationships we have, at that age. In the case of Brenda and India, two girls who don't fit in, their friendship is invaluable to one another. This will make you laugh and think. I would probably reccomend it to pre-teens (especially those who are feeling outcast). Good stuff.

This Book gives Readers a lesson of expressing themselves!

The most sophisticated and unusual book around for expressing yourself. Miss.Pinkwater gives Teen/Kid readers the idea that "WEIRD" is not a bad word. In fact, it means UNIQUE and Standing out. Breifly, it means turn ordainary into EXTRODAINARY!

I love this book

This is one of my favorite books of all time, you would think that someone who is a senior in high school would have more literary favorites, like grapes of wrath, but I think this book is really deep. It shows you that you have to be yourself, to find friends who will accept you for who you are, and not who they want you to be. It tells you that the administration will be wrong, and you have to find ways to deal with and get around them, ( and that music teachers are the ones who will do it). It tells you to find your own nitch, and make life what you want it to be, and it does this in a fun and crazy way, that is unbelieviably funny, and poignant. I have had a lot of things that happen in this book, happen to me, or one shape or another, it isn't always so crazy as adopting a buffalo, but I did join the euphonium section of the marching band this year, when I didn't even know how to play. I first picked this book up during junior high, and have read it about once a year since then. There are very few books I can do that too, I am not sure why it works, or what made it click, it is enough to know that it has. I wish there were more people like Brenda in the world, we could use them. Oh, and for the record, during all my finals in high school I have worn outfits as original as Brenda's first ones for luck, ( I didn't get the idea from her, but that book helped me to stick with it). You realize that the people who care so much what you wear, aren't the kind of people you want to be friends with anyway. Anyway, please read this book. If you happen to read this, and want to respond, please reply back to Oheponine@aol.com thanks

This is a crazy but most inspiring children's book

I adore the book "Buffalo Brenda." This is the kind of book for kids not satisfied with being "absorbed in the milling masses," as Brenda says. The kids in this book have what I call "the devine arrogance" to do outrageous but clever and creative things that make them stand out, even though they know other kids think they're a bunch of weirdos. They're never intimidated by conforming authority or the fact that no one else in their school acts like them. Reading this book makes one realize that being yourself takes real courage and that great things can happen when a bunch of creative misfits work together.

Jill Pinkwater helps young teens understand their situation.

I am and was 14 when I read this book. Jill Pinkwater seemed to get right into the young, teenage mind and help us understand why things are so hard. This is a great story of strong, underestimated misfit kids making their way in the world