I so enjoyed this story. Poor Abbie Wu is having a melt down stressing out over beginning MIDDLE SCHOOL! I may be an adult, but, I got a kick out of the pre-teen angst she expressed, we all get the opportunity to go through those beginning of the new school year jitters. Will it be hard? Will my teacher be nice or one of those grouchy ones? Will the work be understandable or so hard I won’t get it? Who will be in my class with me? Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Abbie Wu is a little like a mix of Peppermint Patty and Charlie Brown with a twist of Lucy thrown in. Abbie has to contend with the reputations of her older sibling who is a Brainiac! Good grades all the way through school and now he is in the 8th grade and she is going into 6th grade. The 8th graders even get better food than she does! Her grade gets veggie snacks! The 8th graders get pizza and chips, burgers and fries while her grade gets limp vegetables and brown mushy glop next to dry tasteless possibly mashed potatoes. The 8th graders have the lunch ladies all sewn up. They even get their own window to go to. Her brother’s teachers have always liked him. How can she compete with that legacy? She and her older brother are as different as is humanly possible! And everybody seems to have something they are interested in at Middle School, or at least something that they are good at and Abbie can’t seem to figure out her “thing” she loves to do more than any other thing or if she has any special talents or is there anything she feels she is good at? What a sea of mixed emotions on a tide of self-doubt and low self-esteem. That’s what going from little kid to almost tween is like. Abbie makes some very valid points and it was fun to be reminded of those days and joyous to know I’m out of Middle School! YEAH!
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