After All, You're Callie Boone
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4.4 • 19 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
"Oh, fishsticks, tartar, and a side of fries!"
Runaway ferrets, former BFF drama-trauma, and one GIGANTIC (and very, very public) belly flop. No doubt about it, Callie Boone's summer is CRUMMY. The only things keeping her afloat are dive practice with her dad and a top-secret Olympic dream. Then a boy named Hoot—who is NOT her boyfriend!—moves in next door and turns her world upside down and right-side up.
Just when things start looking up, real disaster strikes and Callie feels like she's stuck at the top of the high diving board with no way down. What if she can't fix all the things that need fixing? She'll just have to try! With a little luck, a solid plan, and a whole lot of teamwork, she just might make it through.
After all, she's Callie Boone!
After All, You're Callie Boone is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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In this affable, sweet story, 11-year-old Callie Boone is devastated after her best friend inexplicably abandons her just before summer break. Her family, "officially the weirdest family on the block," with her former drill sergeant mother, ferret-loving uncle, and absentminded grandmother, doesn't make life any easier. When "total skateboarder" Hoot moves in next door and is determined to hang out with her, Callie thinks her summer can't get any worse. But Hoot turns out to be a supportive sidekick, as Callie trains with her father to make the diving team. Mack does an admirable job of making Callie realistically self-absorbed and dramatic, leaving readers both sympathetic toward and frustrated with her as a result. Callie's story moves along in a leisurely fashion until the last few chapters, in which a heated argument erupts between Hoot and Callie and Callie's father suffers a heart attack. Young female readers should be attracted to Mack's earnest characters and hopeful message. Ages 9 12.
Customer Reviews
After All, You're Callie Boone
I loved this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's an amazing book, well written And has surprises starting on the first page. Hoot is my favorite character he is polite, and kind, but he manages to support Callie all through out her hard times.
Fantastic!
This is a really great book! I think it is really good and interesting! It's probably the best book I have ever read before. You should totally download this book!