Fudge Series
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Superfudge, Double Fudge, Fudge-A-Mania, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
By Books LLC
2010
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4.47
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Chapters: Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Superfudge, Double Fudge, Fudge-A-Mania, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great is a young adult novel published in 1972 and written by Judy Blume. Sheila Tubman's family is planning a vacation, where they leave New York City for the summer to live in suburban Tarrytown. They plan to spend the season in a house that belongs to George Egran, a professor at Marymount Manhattan College where Sheila's father, Buzz Tubman, works. At first, Sheila is disappointed that they aren't going to Disneyland, but then changes her mind when she finds out she can have her own bedroom (at their apartment, she must share her bedroom with her older sister Libby, who pretends to be very grown-up and formal). Once they get there, Sheila has a rough start. She must face several fears, including spiders, thunderstorms, ghosts (when she learns that Tarrytown was where The Legend of Sleepy Hollow took place), the dark and her two mosts fears: dogs (Professor Egran owns a beagle named Jennifer that the Tubmans look after for the summer), and water (her parents insist on swimming lessons). Sheila does not like her bedroom at first, since it belongs to a boy, Bobby (who has a huge model collection and warns any girls using his room that he will "get" whoever touches his models). Then Sheila makes friends with a girl her age named Mouse Ellis (a.k.a. the Junior Yo-yo Champion of Tarrytown), as well as twin girls named Jane and Sondra. They attend a cultural arts summer day camp, and enjoy making pottery. Her swimming teacher, Marty, also helps her learning to swim, with Sheila even going as far as admitting she is scared to put her face in the water. Sheila pretends...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=502413
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