Don't Make Me Smile
by Barbara Park
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A young boy has trouble adjusting to his parent's divorce.Tags
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I gave this book a 4 because in the middle Charlie wanted his family to be happy again, but he just couldn't, so it made the book quite sad. Charlie's parents had a hard time explaining that it would definitely work out, but later on Charlie's mom made the same food every meal and every day. Charlie was tired of it and ran out of home, unfortunately his mom followed him. Charlie couldn't help the divorce between his parents and his mom was going to marry a very mysterious person.
This book is about a boy whose parents are getting divorced. Charlie's father moves out of the house and it is very difficult for him to adjust. He does not want his mother to begin dating either. Charlie endures many different challenges throughout this book. Read this book to find them out!
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Barbara Park was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey on April 21, 1947. She spent her first two years of college at Rider University in New Jersey before receiving a B.S. degree from the University of Alabama. She began writing children's books after she had children of her own. In a career that began in 1982, she published over 50 books including show more Don't Make Me Smile, Operation: Dump the Chump, Ma! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Skinnybones, and The Kid in the Red Jacket. She was best known for her 28-book Junie B. Jones series which was first published in 1992. She won seven Children's Choice Awards and four Parents' Choice Awards. She helped found a charitable organization, Sisters in Survival, to raise money for women with ovarian cancer. She died from ovarian cancer on November 15, 2013 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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