Utterly Me, Clarice Bean

I enjoyed this book like I was in it. I think it was the best book I have read in a while.

This Book was AWESOME! It is about a girl named Calrice that has the concentration of a fly. Her favourite books, "The Ruby Redfort" series,her best friend Betty Moody and her awating english project keep you long enough on your chair?
Read this Book in order to find out.

Hilarious. Captures exactly how children talk today.

Clarice Bean is noticing strange things. She has to get to the bottom of this-and get a good grade on the book report. Can she do it?

Really cute book, as an adult I couldn't put it down. Great for 2nd-5th graders. Has a few illustrations. Multicultural. Is written from Clarice's perspective and in a the way I assume she talks. Clarice Bean and a group of friends have to race to solve a mystery, get a friend out of trouble, and

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finish a book project before Parents' Night at school. The class has to complete a book project, they have to choose a book they have learned something from. She is paired up with Betty Moody, her best friend; but when Betty Moody suspiciously disappears (her parents whisked her off to Russia at a moments notice)she was paired with the Karl Wrenbury. Clarice is "utterly speechless" about this pairing and thinks that Karl is no good and a trouble maker. Clarice convinces Karl that the Ruby Redfort series is perfect for the project and they will most certainly win. Ruby Redfort is young heroine like Clarice who is a super spy. Right when Clarice has lost all hope in the project and Karl Wrenbury, he redeems himself when he builds super secret spy gear resembling Ruby Redfort's gadgets. Then suddenly Karl is accused of stealing the trophy for the book project and is disqualified from the contest. Betty Moody returns and they decide to solve the mystery of the missing trophy using what they have learned from the Ruby Redford series. The trophy mystery is solved, Karl is let off the hook, they finish the book project, and all just in time for Parent's Night. Even though they don't win, Clarice Betty solved a mystery like Ruby Redfort so it sure feels like one.

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This story was extremely cute. Clarice is like any girl her age. she finds it hard to pay attention but she must do so to get a good grade on her project. During the novel, she explains parts from her favorite story about Ruby Redfort who is a schoolgirl detective. On every couple of pages, there

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are illustrations that add more to the story. This story relates to girls at this age level because they are very imaginative.

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An inquisitive girl who notices a lot of changes in the people around and she must find out why. This book gives students the opportunity to be more observant and inquisitive.

"Its not easy to concentrate at school when mysterious things are happening all around you. Clarice Bean is beginning to feel just like a hero of her favorite books- schoolgirl detective Ruby Redfort.

Can Clarice Bean pay attention long enough to ace her book project about Ruby and win the class

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prize? Find out int he utterly hilarious and suspenseful diary of Clarice Bean!"

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This story was precious. Clarice Bean is finds it hard to pay attention in class, but she has to so to receives a good grade on her project. Clarice is paired up with the "naughty boy" in class and tries to figure out, by thinking like her favorite detective Ruby Redfort, what to do so that she is

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not labeled as a "naughty" student.

This is a great book for children from second grade on up to fifth, as the reading advances just a little. This book still contains illustrations, which help to emphasize Lauren Child's writing. This story relates to children at this age level because they are often very creative.

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First sentence: n/a

Premise/plot: Clarice Bean HATES school and hates her teacher. (It seems mutual. The teacher is depicted as unprofessionally mean. Of course, that could be Clarice Bean's perspective.) In this series book, Clarice Bean has to team up with a classmate (or two) and do a project

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(oral report? class presentation?) on a book. They have to choose a book that they've learned something from. The teacher is angry (angry enough to send to the principal) that Clarice wants to choose a fiction book and a mystery at that. Clarice LOVES the Ruby Redfort mystery series. (As do a few of her friends). But can these students find a way to prove that they've "learned something" from a mystery novel?

My thoughts: My library doesn't have many in this series. And they do not have the first book. This bothers me starting books in the middle of a series. I felt Clarice Bean was stream of consciousness of an ADHD kid. The way the story unfolds is just a bit all over the place. I think one thing that made this one a little odd--and I don't know if it's just this one book in the series or the whole series--is that the NOVEL Clarice is reading--the mystery novel starring Ruby Redfort--gets almost as many pages as the actual Clarice Bean novel. I would describe the book as a little jumpy/jittery. I didn't dislike it, but I almost don't know what to do with it. I feel like to make sense of it I would almost need to read the other books to see a fuller picture of Clarice Bean's world.

I do wish I'd written down the first sentence. I'm so used to books having previews available that I hardly write down sentences.

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