A review by literatehedgehog
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
2.0
A boy and girl used to be friends and now they're not. And now they're looping through their 11th birthday like Groundhog Day. Maybe there's some mystical history involved.
The characters didn't grab me, the sort of explanation for the looping felt flat, and I didn't really care about most of the "problems" these kids have. (Oh no, one of your good friends still likes you but has another friend too? Sob.).
I'm too much of a cynical adult to really enjoy this friendship story, but perhaps my student book club will have a better go of it. There should be good inferring and perspective taking lessons here.
The characters didn't grab me, the sort of explanation for the looping felt flat, and I didn't really care about most of the "problems" these kids have. (Oh no, one of your good friends still likes you but has another friend too? Sob.).
I'm too much of a cynical adult to really enjoy this friendship story, but perhaps my student book club will have a better go of it. There should be good inferring and perspective taking lessons here.