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A review by kelleemoye
A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan
4.0
I love a book with a strong, smart female protagonist. It helps if the story is thoroughly entertaining as well. This book fits that mold. Farrah is nicknamed Digit because of her insane aptitude for numbers. She's never really fit in because of her brains, so when she went to a new school, she decided to hide her intelligence so she can hang out with the popular kids; however, she cannot completely block out her mind and ends up cracking a code to a terrorist plan. Now, she is FBI's only hope for stopping these criminals who are not afraid to kill others and die doing so. Now, she gets to embrace her genius and help save the world.
This book is one that will definitely find readers in many classrooms and has a great protagonist for girls to look up to.
Topics: Ecoterrorism, Fathers, Role Models, Geniuses, Fibonacci
Mentor text for: Grammar, Puns, Voice, Suspense
"I smiled, a little embarrassed, and started scanning the alley for nothing too, while I thought about my new favorite word: either. He could have just said, "I'm not just a pretty face." But he added either. Either can be an adjective (I could lean over and kiss either his neck or his lips), a pronoun (His neck or his lips? Either will do), or, like here, an adverb following a negative subordinate clause (I'm not just a pretty face either). I wondered if it could be a name. We could have a daughter and call her Either." (p. 54)
This book is one that will definitely find readers in many classrooms and has a great protagonist for girls to look up to.
Topics: Ecoterrorism, Fathers, Role Models, Geniuses, Fibonacci
Mentor text for: Grammar, Puns, Voice, Suspense
"I smiled, a little embarrassed, and started scanning the alley for nothing too, while I thought about my new favorite word: either. He could have just said, "I'm not just a pretty face." But he added either. Either can be an adjective (I could lean over and kiss either his neck or his lips), a pronoun (His neck or his lips? Either will do), or, like here, an adverb following a negative subordinate clause (I'm not just a pretty face either). I wondered if it could be a name. We could have a daughter and call her Either." (p. 54)