I thought this was a good book. I thought the story line was great and it had a great lesson/moral for students. The audience appeal will be more for females since the main character is a girl and the book is mostly about tap dancing but I think males might enjoy having this book read to them but I don't think they would choose to read this book on their own.
This book could be used as a read aloud in prek-2nd grade or for students to read on their in first and second grades. I would not recommend this book for beginning readers to read on their own because the words and content of the book may be too hard for them. I would use this book as a read aloud in my classroom and have it in my classroom library for my students to read when they have free time. This is a great book for emergent and more advanced readers to read for pleasure. They will enjoy and be entertained by the book. Reading this book will increase their motivation.
My daughter got one of the books in this series at the library during winter break when each child got to choose a book to keep. We will have to read it soon. I would imagine that all in the series have similar lessons, so it will be interesting to see how closely the lesson in the book she got is to this one.
ReplyDeleteA lot of my students have read her How I Survived Middle School. It looks like she has quite a few series that are at relatively easy reading levels for the target age groups.