Confidentially Yours #1: Brooke's Not-So-Perfect Plan
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Publisher Description
Perfect for fans of The Cupcake Diaries and The Baby-Sitters Club, this new series is about four best friends who are confidentially yours when writing their middle school newspaper's advice column.
Brooke, Vanessa, and Heather have been friends for as long as they can remember, and they're positive they'll rock their first year of middle school. The trio decides to sign up for a journalism elective, and they find themselves columnists for the school's newspaper, the Lincoln Log. They and their new friend Tim are put in charge of the advice column!
The year is going perfectly for Brooke. She has her friends, her travel soccer team, the advice column, and a lot of new activities . . . but maybe too many activities. As Brooke struggles to balance all her commitments and schoolwork, she realizes she may have bitten off more than she can chew. Can she figure out how to have it all and stay on the advice column without sacrificing her other responsibilities?
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Headstrong overachiever and soccer star Brooke anchors this first book in the Confidentially Yours series, about a trio of sixth-grade best friends acclimating to middle-school life. These self-appointed "Three Musketeers" pool their talents to write an advice column for the school paper. Though Whittemore (Colonial Madness) draws on familiar personality profiles, her characters aren't formulaic: poised fashion and beauty expert Vanessa loses her confidence when thrust into the spotlight, empathetic Heather sheds her self-consciousness in the same situation, and Brooke's take-charge intensity is defused by her sharp humor. Thrown into the mix is Shakespeare aficionado Tim; when assigned to the advice-column staff, he turns to the Three Musketeers and sighs, "Fine.... Guess I'm your d'Artagnan." (The reference is lost on the girls, who named themselves after the candy bar.) The banter and quips bouncing around among these classmates and friends energize the story, which reinforces the importance of recognizing one's limits, learning how to both take and give advice, and knowing how to be a good friend. Vanessa's Fashion Face-Off pubs simultaneously. Ages 8 12.
