Wednesday
Dec072011
Stella Batts, Needs a New Name
written by Courtney Sheinmel
Available here from Sleeping Bear Press
"Meet Stella Batts. She's in third grade, she wants to be a writer, and her parents own a wonderful candy shop. Life should be good, right? Well, it would be if only she didn't have to deal with a pesky five-year-old sister who copies her every move or Joshua, a mean boy at school, who teases her about her name (he calls her Smella).
In this early chapter book series, the ups and downs of Stella's life are charmingly chronicled. In Book 1, Stella Batts Needs a New Name, Stella decides that if she changes her name, Joshua will have nothing to tease her about. But that's not as easy as it sounds."