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Clementine books by sara pennypacker5/11/2023 Case in point: the view out the window, of the lunchroom lady kissing the janitor. It’s just that some things are more interesting to pay attention to than what her teacher is saying. People are constantly telling her to pay attention, but she is. (If nothing else, she helps Marla Frazee by giving her lots of ridiculous hairdos to illustrate.) Then she cuts off her own hair to make Margaret feel better…on a day when - she forgot - Margaret’s not going to be at school. She cuts off Margaret’s hair to erase the damage that Margaret did in the first place. “Someone should tell you not to answer the phone in the principal’s office, if that’s a rule,” she says almost as soon as we’ve met her. She just doesn’t always know what that is. But just look at how much we learn about her - at how much is specific to her - beyond the usual penchant for unladylike shenanigans.įor one thing, she’s trying hard to do exactly what she’s supposed to do. Sure, its protagonist is a spunky girl in the grand tradition of spunky girls. Clementine, a 2007 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and Poetry, is a 136-page master class in characterization.
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