We Are Party People
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Leslie Margolis's We Are Party People is sweet, brave, and laugh-out-loud funny, as Pixie Jones learns that stepping out of her comfort zone might not be so scary after all.
"I am the opposite of a mermaid and that's exactly the way I like it." Shy and quiet, Pixie does everything she can to fade into the background. All she wants is to survive middle school without being noticed. Meanwhile, her parents own the best party-planning business in town. They thrive on attention, love being experts in fun, and throw themselves into party personas, dressing as pirates, princes, mermaids, and more. When her mom leaves town indefinitely and her new friend Sophie decides to run for class president, Pixie finds herself way too close to the spotlight. How far is she willing to go to help the people she loves?
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Leslie Margolis. (2017). We Are Party People. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Leslie Margolis. 2017. We Are Party People. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).
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MLA Citation (style guide)Leslie Margolis. We Are Party People. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2017.
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"I am the opposite of a mermaid and that's exactly the way I like it." Shy and quiet, Pixie does everything she can to fade into the background. All she wants is to survive middle school without being noticed. Meanwhile, her parents own the best party-planning business in town. They thrive on attention, love being experts in fun, and throw themselves into party personas, dressing as pirates, princes, mermaids, and more. When her mom leaves town indefinitely and her new friend Sophie decides to run for class president, Pixie finds herself way too close to the spotlight. How far is she willing to go to help the people she loves?- gradeLevels
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Gr 4-6-Pixie Jones is a shy seventh grader who prefers to keep her head down. Her parents are the opposite; in fact, being the life of the party is the family business. They are children's party planners who dress up as mermaids, pirates, and more. Pixie usually helps out in the background, but when her mom is called away to care for Pixie's grandmother, her dad asks her to play a mermaid at an upcoming event. Meanwhile, Pixie has befriended a new student at school, Sophie, who is not submitting quietly to their lowly social position. Sophie runs for class president despite the election traditionally favoring popular students. Her friendship with Sophie challenges Pixie to think beyond her assumptions about the middle school social hierarchy. The two story lines dovetail nicely in a predictable but satisfying climax. Pixie's first-person perspective is endearing. She also speaks candidly about things like her grandmother's Alzheimer's and a friend's gluten intolerance, and her relationship with her harried dad is particularly tender. Readers can sense his distress over his absent wife and his desire to connect with the tween daughter he struggles to understand. VERDICT Give this to fans of gentle, realistic fiction. A solid purchase for medium and large collections.-Amelia Jenkins, Juneau Public Library, AK
Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Pixie has contentedly played introvert to her extroverted parents, but now circumstances demand that she expand her limited comfort zone. Mom had to leave over a month ago to visit her own ailing mother in Fresno, so the white 12-year-old and her dad, Dan the Man, must run the family business--preparing, producing, and running birthday parties--without charismatic Mom. Pixie is infuriated when her father announces, "We need you to be a mermaid next Saturday." "Next Saturday" means in approximately two weeks, and Pixie is determined to avoid the assignment. For years, she has been an organized, quietly competent part of the business. Meanwhile, she and her less-than-popular friends join a class-president campaign for the seemingly self-assured Sophie, a white classmate whose personality does as quick an about-face as Pixie's by story's end. Pixie narrates in the present tense, with plenty of flashbacks, musings, and editorializing, running the full gamut from humorous to dead serious. Occasionally, her confessions reveal a tendency that seems to veer beyond shyness into acute anxiety. The strongest chapters are the lively accounts of how Pixie and Dan organize and run parties without Mom. As Pixie takes risks, she moves beyond self-consciousness and even faces her former nemesis. Unfortunately, the character arc may have some readers inferring that an outgoing, entertaining personality is superior to one of quiet supportiveness. Racial and sexual diversity exist among secondary characters. Middle school angst tempered by humorous insights. (Fiction. 8-12)COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Painfully shy Pixie is the exact opposite of her party-planner and costumed-performer parents. When her mom leaves town for a while, Pixie steps up to help her dad--and finds herself stepping more into the spotlight. But she manages to cope and even develops confidence (in mermaid attire no less). Similarly introverted readers will sympathize with Pixie's situation and appreciate her satisfying growth.(Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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