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Book Review
Reviewed by: Ann D=Ambrosio
The Fair-Weather Friends
By Stephen Roos
Published by Troll Associates
Illustrated by Dee deRosa
 | It is available in paperback. |
| This book was excellent. It would be appropriate for fourth or fifth
grade level. This book is about two friends who only see each other during
the summer and one summer when they are together, they realize that they are
different and they aren=t as close
friends as they used to be. They both have different outlooks on certain
subjects and their hobbies have changed and they don=t
have as much in common as they used to have. One friend, Phoebe, thinks she
is more grown-up than Kit, and thinks Kit is childish. They plan revenge on
each other, but realize they are just humiliating each other, so they decide
to just sit down and decide what kind of friends they are. They decide
whether or not they are Afair-weather
friends@ who are friends only when
times are good. |
| This is an excellent book for kids because they can probably relate to
this. Throughout school, some kids are best friends with someone one year
and they next year they hardly talk to them anymore. Kids can relate to
whether they are Afair-weather
friends@ with someone or if the
friendship can survive the changes in each other=s
lives. This is an excellent book for children to read about friendship and
how even though two friends may change, they can still be friends, just a
different kind. I would highly recommend this book. |
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