Seize Your Copy Twelve (The Winnie Years, #3) Authored By Lauren Myracle Ready In Audiobook
good book about growing up, This is the first Lauren Myracle book I've read and I hope to read more, Winnie is a very lovable character and her friends and very easy to like, I recommend this to anyone who is scared to get older and what happens to the body, This was a very well written book, I hope to read the rest of the Winnie Perry serie books,
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Parental Rating:Mind that it does talk about what is going on during puberty to a girls body and in some spots a boys I can see this one disturbing some patrons.
Adolescence is messy. It has the most graphic description of tampon application I have ever read and boy I could have really used reading it inth grade when one of my friends had a birthday party at Wild Waves.
Why me! I still feel the embarrassment, Overall, 'Twelve' read pretty pitchperfect to me the reluctance to admit that maybe your mom is right and you do need a bra, the borderline paranoia that people might notice you in a swimsuit, the shifting friendships, your first crush, etc.
So much drama. Realizing that sometimes the big jerk is you and being big enough to admit it,
Think of it as Blume's 'Are You There God It's me, Margaret' for contemporary tweens,
This book was a very good one to read, First off, I would like to give my recommendations to this book, I would highly recommend this book to young adult women, and even though the front cover looks like for little kids, don't judge a book by its cover! I think the strength in this book is the drama the author put in.
Lauren Myracle made me had a feeling of excitement of what is going to happen next, In the story, I could relate to the character Winnie, I was surprised at how her personalities were like mine, I am glad to read this book and will read the next one sooner or later! This was a good book about a girl named winnie who just turned twelve.
When a girl named Gail comes to her school she starts to lose her best friend Amanda, So winnie goes on and makes a new friend named Dina, Winnie also struggles with changes she is going through, I LOVE this book so far but it scares to grow up AAAAHHHH!!!!!!! The only thing more exciting than being eleven, . . is turning twelve! Winnie Perry went through a lot when she was eleven, from shifting friendships to her teenage sisters mood swings, But now that Winnie is twelveand one step closer to being a teenager herselfthere is so much more to deal with, Will her new friendship with Dinah last Can she handle the pressures of junior high And, most important, will Winnie survive bra shopping in public! with Mom
Bestselling author Lauren Myracle again sharply observes a year in the life of a winning young heroine whose humor, daring, and compassion for others is infectious and unforgettable.
Hysterical. Sweet. Darling. Adorable. Heartbreaking. I love this book so much, I want every twelveyearold girl who resembles Winnie to read it, . . so spoton and exactly how it feels to be this age as a white, middleclass tween, Winnie is truly human and every bit of twelve, I love this series. I wish I could say that everyone would embrace it, but they won't, I'm not sure I can have it on my shelves, . . Some sixth grade parents may not be ready to address some of the topics that come up, Even though it's perfectly rooted in reality, puberty, language, references to sex, bras and body parts typical Blumelike topics, this is the stuff that pushes some buttons, I will never really understand why many parents tend to accept morbid, overthetop violence yet throw a fit when "boobs" enter the picture, It's a real shame. i was rereading this to find out if its appropriate for myyear old sister, i remembered it being mostly appropriate, it was not /:
dont read the list of content unless youre over the age ofits not stuff you need in your mind
A lot of things happen to Winnie as she is tweleve.
. . Funny, and very true! Love it! I read this a while back, and loved every second of it, It showed the true journey of growing up, This was a very good book, I think Winnie does not appreciate Diana until the end and I liked how she finally did : reads very much like a modern day judy blume novel and the author cites JB as an influence.
not my favorite genre but I can see this as serving a useful purpose for some girls, in a perfect world parents lovingly and perfectly instruct and guide their children through comingofage milestones, but sometimes it can be nice as a kid to read about these experiences, written with a touch of humor, privately as
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it could effectively be used as a tool for discussion with your child if all parties were warm to the idea but i'm trying to figure out the best age to introduce this.
i think it depends on the child, some twelve year olds would be "too sophisticated" for this book but i can think of aspects that would make my tenyearold uncomfortable,
I think Lauren Myracle has stolen my diary, In this book, Winnie must brave the embarrassing world of becoming a woman, Ugh. The humor and spot on emotions of this book resonated with me, but more importantly, made my daughter comfortable enough to talk with me about the enormous subject matter of growing up as a girl.
We both agree it kind of stinks, In all sincerity, thank you Ms, Myracle for making an icky subject something my daughter and I can share a laugh about, Knowing girls like Winnie have survived puberty gives my young lady hope that she can too, The begging is knida borining/weird, but it gets better!
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Winnie just turnedand went out for a special dinner with her new best friend because her old best friend started acting wicked bratty, so she has a older sister named Sandra who is nowand is very impatient to get her drivers lisence but when her oprituntie comes she gets nervous and doesnt get her license.
I think that this book is a little strange at the begging, This book is not for boys, And has a lot of "drama and girl stuff",
But i cant figure out why Winnie's sister Sandra get her licence if she wanted to do it so bad
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Winnie has a little brother Ty, i have a little brother Jackson, sometimes i get fusterated with him like winnie does, but in the end Winnie always shows love for Ty,
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I think that Winnie's old best friend Amanda is just using Winnie until Gale Amanda's new best friend gets back from her summer camp, and then Winnie is going to get "hurt" again like the first time Amanda dumped Winnie for Gale.
I think Winnie shouldn't get to "obbsesd" in the friendship because Amanda seems like one of those people who will hang out with any one then be by herself.
She is a person who cant handle not having a group around her, I think Winnie is going to realize that and then if Gale leaves again Winnie might reject Amanda,
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Winnie's class had a subsitute and her class decided that it woukd be funny if they "messed" the teacher up, they decided on the attendence that after the teacher called their name they would tell the teacher that the name on the attendence was wrong.
For example, William said his name was Bill, Winnie got invited to a party and she went, Since her friend Dinah wasnt invited I think that they are going to not be as good friends, they dont do the same activities and are not in the same homerooms.
It seems like Winnie's friend Cinnamon is "moving in" on Dinah's best friend spot, I think Dinah is going to have a new best friend besides Winnienamed Vantia because she does Hiphop club with her, In the book it says " Sometimes i felt jelous that Dinah had another friend besides me not counting Cinnamon, who was friends with both of us, " This makes me think about if Winnie thinks that Dinah is capable of making other firneds besides her,
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It was a good book filled with a lot of drama! Winnie and her friend Cinnamon call Dinah to see what she though about Winnie, then Cinnamon and Dinah did it to Winnie and Winnie was basically trash talking about Dinah and she heard everything that Winnie said.
All in all i though this book was really different, i though it was a different type of writing but i liked it! : Along the lines of "Are You There God It's Me, Margaret," by Judy Blume, "Twelve" is for today's preteens/tweens.
Some words and phrases that may be objectionable to a certain segment of our patrons: hardon, vword, vagina, boobs, boobful, boobed, "with boob," etc,
I thought it was a fun read, using real kid language in the dialog and capturing that whole adolescent angsty feeling fabulously, I bought this for my niece, who's almost, but thought I should read it before I gave it to her to make sure that there's nothing she shouldn't read.
So far it's just normalyear old drama, like buying your first bra, :
There was one page that was questionable so I called my SIL and talked to her, Other than that, it was a really cute book about the trials and tribulations of being a girl who's hitting puberty, If I wasI'd have liked it a lot more, but even atit was cute and brought up a lot of memories, We do all have an embarrassing period story, : LUV IT
Ill be honest, it has been a long time since I read this book, so I dont know how qualified I am to write a review on it.
However, it crossed my mind the other day, and I remembered how much I treasured this series, It was available in the elementary school library I think I read it in fifth grade, which was great because I could hide the picture of the bra on the spine from my mom, in order to not bring up any awkward discussions.
Just reading the summary now brought back gallons of the embarrassment of my adolescence, but all jokes aside, I probably read this book multiple times between the ages of ten and eleven.
It was the best puberty talk I got, because its written in such a relatable way for a tween girl, I dont remember much of the plot, but I do know that this book was super helpful for the coming years, So, mothers: buy this book for your daughter, Heck, buy the whole series, If memory serves, it will make your childs life ten times less awkward,
It is kind of girly and a little silly, I really like this series, which is funny because I'm not really a fan of Myracle's other stuff,
I love the voice in the Winnie books she's one of the few authors who can actually drag me back to that age when reading.
She nails a lot of hard to nail feelings and situations,
I read Eleven and liked it, and when a patron complained about content in "Twelve" I read it so that I could discuss it with her.
It's true that SPOILERS Myracle writes about tampons, periods, and erections, But she does so with the utmost attention to context and how these sorts of things might have come across to ayear old, I actually found the whole erection passage which is extremely short, a few sentences to be informative and far from prurient, .