TITLE: SuperfudgeAUTHOR: Judy Blume
STARTED: June 13, 2009
FINISHED: June 14, 2009
PAGES: 166
GENRE: Juvenile
FIRST SENTENCE: Life was going along okay when my mother and father dropped the news.
SUMMARY: [From barnesandnoble.com] Sometimes life in the Hatcher household is enough to make twelve-year-old Peter think about running away. His worst problem is still his younger brother, Fudge, who hasn't changed a bit since his crazy capers in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. If you ask Peter, Fudge is just an older — and bigger — pain.
Then Peter learns that his mom is going to have a baby and the whole family is moving to Princeton for a year. It will be bad enough starting sixth grade in a strange place and going to the same school as Fudge. But Peter can imagine something even worse. How will he ever survive if the new baby is a carbon copy of Fudge?
THOUGHTS: What a romp! This book was a blast to read - it felt like Blume sat down and simply chronicled a year in the life of a family (with all the eccentricities included). While the story, on the whole, is light and "normal," there are certain areas where Blume hints at the deeper complexities that are always at work in a family. I enjoyed how Blume made the family incredibly quirky and, yet, you know they could be living next door to you.
This book made me giggle out loud and it makes me want to go back and read the rest of this series.
RATING: 7/10 [Very Good]
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