Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies

By Eve Bunting

Book Overview

When a gorgeous seventh-grade boy moves across the street, Vicki is ecstatic-until she remembers her latest school assignment. For one week, Vicki and the rest of her sixth-grade class have to pretend they're parents and carry around five-pound bags of sugar dressed in baby clothes. And if he sees her carrying around a silly-looking sugar baby, Vicki is sure she'll die of embarrassment. Then one day the worst happens. Vicki has to ditch her baby before her hunky neighbor sees it-and the baby disappears. Now Vicki is frantic. What has happened to her poor sugar baby? And what will this do to her grade? There's only one thing to do-and that's to find out where the baby is, before an already sticky situation turns into an even bigger mess!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064403904
• ISBN13: 9780064403900
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.3" x 5.1"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

i loved this when i was young

I love this story it was one of my favorets when i was young i read it so many times its a fun ans witty storry that is great for young girls. i resently bought it for my neace and she loved it to. i definantly recamend this for young girls

lots of fun

This is perhaps one of the sweetest and most hilarious books Ms. Bunting has ever written and it fits the middle school (at least as much of it as I can remember!) perfectly--with all those weird and awkward moments of growing up and first love. Plenty of personality and great characters and just a simply hilarious plot!

2 Thumbs up all the way.

It was a wonderful book.

RESPONSIBLE BABYSITTING

The title states the maximum age of reader interest for this book, but it provides an interesting springboard for class discussion on juvenile behavior, peer pressure, and general schoolage morality. An insightful teacher challenges her pupils to carry five-pound bags of sugar (with appropriate decorations and clothes) with them everywhere, as an experiment in Responsibility. (I know for a fact that real teachers do this also, though they may substitute flour for sugar.) These sugar babies have names and must never be left alone, as if they are alive. The conflict arises when Vicki is torn between her crush on a cute older boy whom she wants to impress and her goal to earn an A on the Sugar Baby assignment. She desperately wants to convice her mother that she is mature enough to travel out of state to mind her half sister for the summer. Will she cheat and lie when her sugar baby is lost, due to her own carelessness? Vicki learns a lot during this unusual experiment, not only about responsible babysitting, but also about the courage required to admit her mistakes. How much will she confess when so much is at stake? This book is deeper than the trite title implies: which came first, Byars' book or a real class assignment? It works both ways.