by Katie Davis 

There’s a curse on Addy McMahon. But only Addy believes it. Her mom has a new live-in boyfriend, who constantly critiques her writing, and the meanest girl in the sixth grade saw her buying a training bra. Addy’s only escape used to be her father, but since he passed away, Addy has turned to writing. Mostly she writes interviews; about the milkman, the principal of her school, and even the mayor! But sometimes, Addy writes to get her feelings out, in her autobiograstrip (autobiography-comic strip). When she writes a particularly mean one about her best friend, and accidentally sends it to her, she loses her friend, and is shunned by her classmates. Will Addy lost her best friend forever?

Although the book was much more different than I had expected, I still enjoyed the story a lot. I have to admit that it was a little funny, reading about people younger than me, but I could relate to her in the sense that I love to write. I sometimes find it difficult, just like Addy, and have, actually, lost my best friend in a way almost identical to the way Addy lost Jackie. I recommend this book to all 5th and 6th graders, as well as young people going into 7^th grade.

Release Date: May 2008

scale (1-10): 7