Series ~ Single Title
Author ~ Dalya Moon
Release Date ~ August 1, 2011
Age Group ~ Young Adult
Publisher ~ Self Published
Source ~ Dalya Moon
GOODREADS SUMMARY
Charlie Woodchuck is the most minor of niners. She’s the youngest girl at Snowy Cove High School, and so clueless, she wore leg warmers and acid-wash jeans on her first day. Big mistake! Almost as big a mistake as signing up for a boys-only shop class.
Just when she thinks the first week of high school can't get any weirder, Charlie discovers she may be adopted. According to the genetics section in her Science textbook, her eyes should be blue, not brown.
Before she graduates from the ninth grade, the girl with the boy's name and the wrong eye color will have to use her detective skills to discover her true identity. She'll use power tools to build fantastical wood creations, and before the year ends, she'll have to face down the biggest bullies of all: the all-powerful members of Snowy Cove’s School Board.
REVIEW
Charlie Woodchuck stands out. She has a boy’s name, she doesn’t wear the latest styles, and she has zero interest in makeup. Charlie is a tom-boy among a sea of girlie girls. Now, sometimes a character is completely comfortable with standing out. Not in Charlie’s case. She is miserable about it.
The story is set in the simpler time of the 1980’s. There was limited technology and the problems seemed simpler. One of the big controversies were gender-specific classes. Charlie signed up for the boys-only shop class and was accepted because Charlie is a boy’s name. The school only let her stay in because it was too late to change her schedule. I liked the way Dalya Moon incorporated all sorts of details about the 1980’s.
I got even more interested in the story when Charlie started to consider that she may be adopted. I liked that a science lesson on genetics got her mind racing, and I was completely shocked by what she finally found out. Mostly, I liked that Charlie handled herself well and she grew more mature over the course of the story.
RATING
4 Liked
COVER COMMENTS
Charlie looks a bit like me with her brown hair and big brown eyes. I like the cute red hat and Charlie’s smile.
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