Glass Slippers Give You Blisters

by Mary Jane Auch

Book Overview

Kelly's involvement in helping design a production of her junior high school's drama club, spurred on by encouragement from her artistic grandmother, helps her discover her own artistic identity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590435019
• ISBN13: 9780590435017
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

What a problem over a fantasygirl

Three girls who try-out for the play to be cinndareala .They all have a big fight over gets to be her for the play.The slipers give one of the girls blisters and they hert her feet.They get in fight because there's only one cindarralia and they all want to be it as well as other people.Who whould of thought three girls would get into a fight over a fantasy girl who is not even rell and of course your not going to be her forever and only to be in a play!

A story about theater and mothers, daughters, grandmothers

I don't think this book is your typical "junior high tragedy," as another reviewer described it. While it's been one of my favorites for at least ten years, it's also taken on more meaning to me as I got older and had to deal with the issues between my mother, grandmother, and myself - much as Kelly does.Glass Slippers Give You Blisters is told from the point of view of twelve-year-old Kelly MacDonald, who is just starting seventh grade with her two best friends Lisa and Rebecca. When her friends get cast in the school play, "Cinderella," and she doesn't, Kelly has to look first at what it means to do a good job and not just try to fake your way into a role, and then to explore who she can be on her own.More than that, though, is the tension between her mother and grandmother. Gram, an artist, ran off to New York to "develop as an actress" when her mother was eight, and her mother has never forgiven her. As a result, she hates anything to do with the theater, and is less than pleased with the fact that Kelly wants to be involved with a play.In some ways Kelly's work on the play brings her mother and grandmother closer together - and also creates an understanding between her mother and herself. But it's not perfect. When Gram suffers a stroke, Kelly feels responsible, and has to deal with that guilt. She is also the only child left at home, now that her perfect older sister has gone to college, and faces the fact that she's always gotten along better with Gram than her mother - which of course doesn't please Mom.Kelly also has lots of flaws - her tendency to daydream, her temper, her guilt, and the way she has to learn to do a good job without faking someone out. One of the most realistic things is the way she gets angry when she hears the snobby set designer taking credit for her work with the lights. Gram tells her not to go needing approval from other people, which I think is hard for most people. All of Kelly's flaws make her a very real, and humorous, person.Glass Slippers ... is no epic, but it ends happily, and hopefully, with the promise of a truce between her mother and Gram, and Kelly and Mom. Most girls spend their lives looking for that truce.

This book had a pleasing sense.

this book is about Kelly, she and her 2 friends Lisa and Rebecca try out for a school play, of "Cinderalla" Kelly makes a total fool of herself, and then find out what happens next in this book and how she gets in the play!