Clementine, Friend of the Week

In Clementine's fourth adventure, she is chosen to be "Friend of the Week" at school. She spends the first part of the week devising ways to make her friends appreciate her more, but finds that friendship is not always easy. First, her best friend Margaret seems angry at her, but Clementine doesn't know why. Then, even worse, Clementine's kitten goes missing. In the turmoil of searching for the lost cat, Clementine forgets that she promised to help her classmates decorate their bikes for a bike race. However, all of Clementine's problems are neatly solved in a sweet and touching resolution.

Clementine is adorable and quirky, and this book is just as enjoyable as others in the series. Readers who are new to the series can enjoy this book show more without reading the previous three, but will want to pick up the earlier books as soon as they can in order to read more about Clementine. show less

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

This was another sweet story in the Clementine series! Not necessarily a standout—probably about the same as any of the other books in the series—but delightful, all the same. I especially loved how we see Margaret grow in this story, plus the touch of mystery in this story was fun. A good read!

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 show more 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. show less

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."

This story was a mix of funny, sweet, and sad at parts. While Clementine is busy doing silly things like giving people tattoos, as many compliments as she can think of, and bike decorations, she gets in a huge fight with her best friend, and loses her kitten who is hilariously named Moisturizer. This was such a fun book to read aloud and I'm sure the rest of series is just as great.