This was a very cute book. Jules was a great quirky character with some typical friendship issues. It was nice to see during the course of the book that some of the friendship issues were resolved. I loved the tryout Jules did for the commercial and her reaction to the orange mouthwash - very funny. The story left the reader hanging as Jules got an offer to do a movie. As part of the committee I am on I am looking for books for grades 4 - 8. When I finished reading this I was left thinking it was cute but there wasn't a lot of substance. I was thinking it would be good for fans of Junie B Jones, Judy Moody, and similar characters. In my grade 4 - 6 school I may get some of my lower readers to pick it up. I order my books through Titlewave for my library and I was very surprised that this book was rated at a 5.4 reading level. I don't really see many of my 5th graders reading a book about a girl who is about to turn 8. I will give it a Ribbet and it will be in my library mostly because my school will be changing to grades 1 - 5 next year and the 2nd and 3rd graders will like it.
In other news I have decided to use images of the book cover in my entries. I debated it mostly because as a librarian I wanted to make sure I was following copyright guidelines so even though almost everyone else uses images I wanted to make sure it was okay. I did some research and looked again at the fair use guidelines and based on what I understand it is okay to use the cover image. My intentions with this blog are to promote books and I think it is helpful to potential readers/buyers to see the cover.
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