Title: The Friendship
Matchmaker
Author: Randa
Abdel-Fattah
Genre: kid chapter
book
Publisher/Date: Walker & Company, NY/2011
ISBN: 978-0-8027-2832-6
Date read: 3/9/17 –
4/25/17
Pages: 179
Lara is the Friendship Matchmaker. Her gift, she thinks, is matching up classmates
to have a best friend. She’s writing a
manual to outline the rules. Rules! And does she have rules! And here is part of her journal to tell us
about her. “… If you’re reading this
Manual it’s probably because you’re sick and tired of feeling lonely. Or maybe you have a friend but you’re not
sure where you stand with him or her. Or
maybe, you’re the third wheel in a trio.
Or can’t work out how to strike up a conversation.”
You get the idea.
Then a new kid in school, Emily, follows her “own” rules
when it comes to making friends, and threatens Lara’s matchmaking methods. They both decide to settle things and compete
to see who can find a (TL) Total Loner a new (BFF) Best Friend Forever. Will Lara maintain her status as “the”
Friendship Matchmaker? Or will she see,
that sometimes the Rules for Friendship are meant to be broken?
DGD (dear granddaughter) listened as I began reading the
book when she came to visit last month.
I couldn’t get her interested in finishing it the last time she was here
so I finished it myself. Yes, it was the
second book by an author I’d previously read.
Abdel-Fattah is from Australia and specializes in books for
kids and young adults. She’s a
litigation lawyer and a human rights activist.
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