by Naomi Zucker
★★★☆☆
Summary
A sixth grader in her first month, Callie, finds out that Halloween in Hillcrest is cancelled. This is big news for her family and she works hard to keep a family tradition alive while staying within the town's rules. Callie does have to break a few social "rules" that she has painstakingly learned from her peers in order to do this, but it is worth it!
Review
I think that this book could inspire young girls to be themselves, and stay original even when it is hard, and everyone else is tiptoeing around the unspoken social rules of middle school. I would recommend this book for 5th-7th graders.
For Teachers
The Author Website contains some discussion guides with questions and talking points. I think that this book and discussion guide would work well in small group reading circles. Girls would probably get the most out of this book.
Technical Stuff
Zucker, Naomi, Callie's Rules. Egmont. New York. 2009
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