A review by readingthroughtheages
How to Outfox Your Friends When You Don't Have a Clue by Jess Keating
5.0
Having an authentic middle school voice is important when writing books for that age. Middle grade school kids can see right through someone who is trying but just isn't authentic.
Not a problem in this series.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Jess Keating a couple of times now. But it's after reading this third book that I feel like Ana really does live somewhere inside Jess. She seems so real. Ana is a character that middle grade kids would want to be friends with.
In this third book of the series, we see Ana trying to get though the pitfalls of middle grade (and everything that happens to her certainly feels real, maybe a bit more so to those of us who have already survived middle school), with her trademark sense of sarcastic humor.
Thank you, Jess, for giving us Ana.
Not a problem in this series.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Jess Keating a couple of times now. But it's after reading this third book that I feel like Ana really does live somewhere inside Jess. She seems so real. Ana is a character that middle grade kids would want to be friends with.
In this third book of the series, we see Ana trying to get though the pitfalls of middle grade (and everything that happens to her certainly feels real, maybe a bit more so to those of us who have already survived middle school), with her trademark sense of sarcastic humor.
Thank you, Jess, for giving us Ana.