| | Going on Twelve |  | Author: Candice F. Ransom
Publisher: Scholastic
Category: Book
List Price: $2.75
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1544321
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0590437410
EAN: 9780590437417
ASIN: 0590437410
Publication Date: December 1990
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Some wear on book from reading, spine creases, wear on binding and pages.
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Kobie is a ridiculous brat December 14, 2005
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not just a brat, a ridiculous brat - the kind you'd like to see spanking come back for. This girl doesn't like anything or anyone, and her constantly negative attitude is acceptable in her mind because she's almost twelve. This girl is rude to parents, teachers, other kids - everyone. The little about her that is likeable is lost in her nastiness. Unfortunately, the story revolves around her.
Struggling with the thought of turning twelve and what it means to be "in between", no longer a little kid and not yet a teen, Kobie Roberts isn't exactly thrilled to find out that her mother will be working at her school. At least she's been rightfully acknowledged as the best artist in her class. And during recess, she and her best friend Gretchen are going to catch a fugitive. Nothing, however, seems to go as she plans. John, the new kid - and the person Kobie blames for all the problems that she can't blame on her mother - becomes the target of a plot for revenge that, like everything else, doesn't go quite the way Kobie imagined.
The character readers are most likely to feel sympathetic towards is anybody BUT Kobie. Her poor mother, long suffering best friend and the new kid she sets out to torture top the list. If nothing else, parents ought to read the book just to make themselves feel better about their own kids' bad behavior. The writing itself is average.
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