Knowledge Is Power

by Anne Mazer

Book Overview

Abby's starting sixth grade at last! She thinks she's ready for anything--until she makes a mortifying mistake on her very first day. Will Abby manage to make it better? Or will one mistake follow her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439637759
• ISBN13: 9780439637756
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Awesome Book!

In this book, Abby is starting 6th Grade! I found that really exciting, because everything's changing for her. Her sisters and Abby went shopping for new clothes. Then her sisters told her to buy clip-on earrings. I think this is one of the good books in the series and I try to read it as much as I can. Read the book to see the surprising things that happened to Abby!

Anne Mazer has made another exciting read!

This book is fantabulous. Abby Hayes is going to sixth grade,something she's been waiting for for a long time. Abby plans to have the best summer of her life. Well,a suprising guest comes to her house,her mom's friend Laurie and her daughter Wynter. Laurie makes her babysit Wynter all the time,and Wynter is a little brat. Will Wynter ruin Abby's perfect summer? What will happen in the end? Read this cool book to find out!

brings back memories

now im in sixth grade last year i graduated from fifth grade! i remember it ! it was so fun, and sad at the same time ! but now i cant wait till i go to seventh grade.the amazing days of abby hayes is a realy good book series because its similar to kids our age and it helps alot. i remember when i first bought the first book. i was in a book fair(at our school) and then i saw the book and then my friend told me y dont we buy that book? she said pointing at abby hayes. and i said y not? so i bought the first one and the second and my friend bought the fifth one and third one. so thats when i started liking abby hayes. she made me like writing in my journal! its much funner now!

First Super Special Book=Great! Second book=not-so-great

Abby's finally graduating from fifth grade! First, she and Hannah pick out the perfect graduation outfits. Once summer's come, Abby enjoys a relaxing summer, taking swimming lessons, and just hanging out. However, her relaxing summer is disrupted when her mom's college friend, Laurie comes to stay for a visit. With Laurie comes her daughter, Wynter. Laurie's rules for bringing up Wynter? Wynter cannot eat fats, sweets, wheats, or meats, and Wynter must have CHOICES. (Which means Wynter can choose whether or not to change her clothes or take a bath or not... Wynter doesn't change her clothes OR take baths very often) Even worse, Laurie wants Abby to babysit Wynter, who turns out to be very difficult. Will Wynter and Laurie ruin Abby's relaxing summer? I had high hopes for Knowledge is Power, after I read and enjoyed The Best is Yet to Come. However, I found this book to be not nearly as good. The summer before they enter middle school, Abby and Hannah are looking through a pile of Eva and Isabel's (Abby's twin sisters) unwanted stuff, seeing if they want anything. Abby finds an old notebook in Isabel's pile, in which someone has written a book called "Sixth Grade Revealed." The writer describes Abby and Hannah's middle school, Susan B. Anthony, as a harsh world, dominated by "Popular People." This is probably where I started having doubts about the book. "Sixth Grade Revealed" advises the future sixth grader to change themselves so they fit in. So, Abby gets a shorter haircut and starts wearing lip gloss and clip-on earrings. When Abby enters middle school, she finds that many of her classmates have changed, which I think is pretty realistic. Middle school seems fine until Abby falls down rushing into health class. Victoria, the meanest sixth grader, is asked to escort Abby to the nurse. Victoria realizes that Abby's clip-on earring has fallen off, and teases Abby for pretending to have pierced ears. When the teasing doesn't stop, Abby becomes determined to get her ears pierced for real. When her mother says she cannot get her ears pierced until seventh grade, Abby decides to break the family rule, and get her ears pierced on her own. I did not like the way Abby reacted to Victoria's teasing at all. Abby should have ignored Victoria, or thought of a good comeback. I also didn't like that, although her parents punished her, Abby still thought it was worth getting her ears pierced. I kind of think this sends a sort of "Break-your-parents'-rules-if-you-want-to,-so-what-if-you-get-a-punishment-it's-worth-it" message to younger kids. I was also looking forward to the book where Abby and Hannah would be in seventh grade, and would go and get their ears pierced together. Hopefully, Anne Mazer's next book will be better.

BEST ONE YET!!!

(...)This was the first super special for Abby Hayes and it was terrific! The best in the series! Abby is graduating from 5th grade, finally, and there is a funny joke saying that Abby feels like she has been in 5th grade forever and its true, too! Abby's siblings all have plans for the summer but Abby wants to "take things as they come" and just do whatever she wants. Her parents make her take a swimming lesson and she has a lot of fun taking the lessons. Then, one of Abby's Mom's college friends, Laurie, and her daughter, Wynter with a Y haha, come to town for a visit, they both get on almost everybody's nerves. They aren't polite and they don't eat anything that Mr. and Mrs.Hayes cook, even the delightful "Welcome" meal. Plus, Laurie expects Abby to babysit Wynter for a few weeks, with NO PAY! She has to watch Wynter for 8-9 hours a day. Its a little better when Hannah, Abby's best friend, helps, but then Hannah takes a "leave of absence". To find out what happens, read this fantastic book!