In this installment, it is Clementine's turn to be "Friend of the Week," where she gets extra class responsibilities and all her classmates fill out a booklet with comments and stories about her. Margaret tells Clementine about the compliments she received in her Friend of the Week book the year before, and Clementine worries that no one will say nice things about her. Then, her kitten goes missing, and her plan to help her classmates decorate their bikes for the bike rally is scrapped in the search for Moisturizer. This was one of my favorites so far (though I've liked them all), especially the line "Bedtime is a time and not a feeling." Great parenting in these books!

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Re-read January 2020 ( )

Still laugh-out-loud hilarious. Still oh-so adorable. Oh I hope there are more and more and somehow the author keeps up the good work without getting stale. Someone please tell the illustrator that the 2-page spreads in which our little darling communicates with Mrs. Rice (the principal to everyone else, but a favorite counselor/ auntie to C.) are a must for every book in the series.

Reread Jan 2015, still love it.
Love that, like Ramona Quimby, she has the best intentions, but is N O T, not" always able to be well-behaved." ( )

Clementine is picked as "friend of week" in her class, this essential means she has a few extra duties and at the end of the week gets a booklet that has all the reasons her classmates like her. The week turns out to be much more difficult than she thought it was going be.

A really great book showing the feelings an 8 1/2 year old girl might have. Clementine gets picked for friend of the week which means she gets to share about herself and do fun stuff like feeding the goldfish!! At the end of the week Clementine gets a book from her classmates with all the wonderful things she did. But now Clementine can't find her cat Moisturizer and her week is ruined unless...
I would recommend this book to everyone because that is how good it is! :) ( )

Clementine, Friend of the Week by Sara Pennypacker is the fourth of the Clementine series. It's her turn to be the Friend of the Week, meaning she gets to be line leader, milk money collector, and get a booklet with nice things written by all her classmates.

Clementine is too wrapped up in getting good things in her booklet that she ends up getting herself in trouble and angering her competitive best friend. At the heart of things is a sad story of her friend's booklet.

Everything comes together for Clementine, her neighbor and the kids at school when a kitten goes missing. They are able to rally around a single cause and come back together.

I happened to read it at a time that my daughter was going through her class's equivalent of the Friend of the Week. For her it involved getting to take home the class stuffed animal and having to do an autobiographic presentation in front of the class. These things are supposed to foster camaraderie among the students but they often do seem to result in hurt feelings and new cliques. ( )