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by: E.L. Konigsburg
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781416958772
ISBN: 1416958770
Label: Aladdin
Manufacturer: Aladdin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Aladdin
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Sales Rank: 698933
Studio: Aladdin
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Product Description:
Give the Unexpected a Chance
That's the advice Chloë gets from her stepfather before she heads off to Florida to spend the summer with her aunt Bernadette. It turns out to be excellent advice, because everything about Bernadette is unexpected: her job driving a food service wagon, her big slobbery dog, her Rollerblading skill, her unorthodox way of teaching Chloë to swim. But nothing is as unexpected as the war that erupts when the other drivers start wearing T-back swimsuits to work and some community leaders mount a protest against the skimpy suits. Bernadette is caught in the middle of the controversy...and what starts as an innocent game for Chloë may just make things worse.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Moral Controversy
Chloe is desperately looking for a way to get away from her friends and the pressure of fitting in for the summer. She asks her mother and stepfather what to do, and her stepfather decides that she should spend the summer in Florida with his older sister, Bernadette. Chloe isn't thrilled about the idea, but it seems as though it is her only choice. She boards a plane and sets off from New Jersey to live with her aunt for a few weeks.
Bernadette is a very strange woman, but Chloe promised ... Read More
Rating: - NOT TOO HIPPY
people may say this book is too "hippy" but i think it is a fun and enjoyable book about basicly not judging a book by it's cover. Yes i confess that i chose this book because of it's cover but i am glad i did. it jumps right in to the plot of the story and never drags on.
Cloe's stepfather sends her to FL to visit his sister. Cloe thinks that this will be boring. Cloe has always had to compete with the in and outs of styles if it is fashion or boys you have to know when to like it or hate it. ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting
Hippies, witches and religious fundamentalists - E.L. Konigsburg brings them all together in T-Backs, T-Shirts, Coat and Suit. Twelve-year-old Chlo? does not like conformity. In order to escape the peer pressure of trying to be just like her friends, she wants to go away from her New Jersey home for the summer. She agrees with her adoptive father to go stay with his sister Bernadette in Florida and help her out when she needs it.
Bernadette is much different than people Chlo? is used to and ... Read More
Rating:  - Great book!
I love and admire Bernadette, Chloë's aunt. She is really brave and great. I wanna be a handsome woman like Bernadette.
Rating: - I love this book.
I loved it. I will treasure this book forever!
I really know what Chloe thinks, feels, and realizes.
E.L. Konigsburg is the greatest author in the world.
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