What's New, Harper Drew?: Book 1

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This laugh-out-loud diary is perfect for fans looking for their next Diary of a Wimpy Kid or The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks.

It’s queen bee Maisie’s birthday party coming up, and the whole class is invited – but while Maisie is sometimes friendly to Harper, sometimes she says things which ‘make her teeth itch’; unkind things that make her feel about two inches tall. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills.I was desperate for something to tempt my 9 year girl away from Wimpy Kid / Tom Gates etc (which she loves) and this has 100% hit the spot. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.

Aleksei Bitskoff's illustrations are a great complement to the text and I did enjoy the humour in the text, which has some laugh out loud moments.Suit Y3 onwards depending on ability, although suggested age is 9-11 probably because that's Harper's age. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

There’s a lot of pressure to get everything exactly right for Maisie’s big day, and Harper definitely doesn’t want to look like a weirdo. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Daughter laughed out loud throughout the book but also asked some pretty insightful questions after a bit of thought - some relevant issues about friendships/family came up quite regularly but in such a subtle and realistic way that she did not realise she was learning about relationships. For fans of Dork Diaries comes a laugh-out-loud series about one girl's eccentric family, a whole lot of mayhem, and her unique way of dealing with it. The family seems so over the top crazy, but unfortunately I have actually known people just like this!

The lines are well spaced so will be easier to follow for those who lose their place on the page easily. My daughter (who is 7) is slightly young for this book at the moment but this is just the sort of book she loves so I know it will be very popular in a year or two! Kathy’s new fiction series reveals the diary of Harper Drew and the frustrations, mishaps and headaches that crop up often with her crazy family and tricky friends at school. Harper introduces herself, her family and friends at the beginning as a sweet from a pic'n'mix selection.