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The Friendship Matchmaker
Lara Zany is known throughout the school yard as the Friendship Matchmaker--kids call on her expertise and follow her hard-and-fast rules to find best friendships. Lara's documented everything from friendship categories (the BOBF, or Bus Only Best Friend; the TL, or Total Loner; the LBC, or Loner By Choice) to strategies (BJF, or the Bungee Jump Friend; FTFP, or Field Trip...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
July 27th 2012
by Scholastic
(first published July 17th 2012)
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Lara takes her job as the school's friendship matchmaker very seriously, foregoing having her own friends so that she can make sure that Total Loners don't have to sit by themselves. She's even writing a manual on how to make and keep friends that she thinks "Harry Potter's publisher" is sure to snap up. Her tips include liking only popular books and movies, not being too noticeable in hair and clothing, and not being too interested in school. She is dismayed when a new girl, Emily, comes to her...more
Lara is the school's friendship matchmaker. She goes around pairing people based on common interests, much like a regular matchmaker would do. Because she is so busy with this work, she doesn't have time for friends of her own. But Lara's rules for friendship matchmaking often involving changing aspects of oneself and morphing into someone you're not. When Emily Wong moves to the school and starts questioning Lara's methods, Lara challenges her to a matchmaking contest. Each girl has to find a f...more
I thought this book was a great book about friendship,but it kind of got confusing with all the words from the friendship matchmaker manual in the book. This book is about a Friendship Matchmaker a.k.a-Lara who helps kids find best friends. But the people that she is helping,is not being theirselves.Lara has rules for them to follow to get friend and she's telling them not to be them selves. Anyways there's this new girl that is coming to school a.k.a-Emily, and Lara is trying to help her fit in...more
Aug 28, 2012
Kris
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Recommended for gr. 4-7 - upper elementary/lower middle school. The ending was somewhat predictable, but still enjoyable.
Lara is her school’s self-appointed official Friendship Matchmaker. Students seek her out for advice on making friends and keeping them. She is working on a manual of friendship rules and advice, most of which involve doing, liking and wearing things to better fit in. She apparently does not have time for friends of her own due to her own self-described big heart and generous...more
Lara is her school’s self-appointed official Friendship Matchmaker. Students seek her out for advice on making friends and keeping them. She is working on a manual of friendship rules and advice, most of which involve doing, liking and wearing things to better fit in. She apparently does not have time for friends of her own due to her own self-described big heart and generous...more
Lara believes herself to be a Loner By Choice establishes herself as a Friendship Matchmaker, a sort of counselor and platonic dating service in one. Then she gets into a competition with a new girl who believes Lara's rules for friendships are insane and mean giving up everything you are, so are these friendships really genuine?
Predictable ending, bland plot, only minor acknowledgement that The Rules really are terrible ideas (pretend to love a thing that someone else loves, make sure your hai...more
Predictable ending, bland plot, only minor acknowledgement that The Rules really are terrible ideas (pretend to love a thing that someone else loves, make sure your hai...more
This is a sweet, girly story. Judy Blume without the edge and just right for upper elementary school readers. The likeable narrator will win over young readers (her heart's so clearly in the right place, even if her methods seem suspect). While the ending's a little too neat, kids will easily identify with the trials and tribulations of making new friends.
I really enjoyed this book about Lara who's life work is to find friends for others. Lara's advice is suspect and there is quite a bit of fun to be had there. There is depth and heart in this novel as we find out what has shaped and influenced Lara and her life's ambition to be a friendship matchmaker.
Cute middle grade with a focus on female friendship (my favorite). Definitely on the younger side of middle grade, but it has a great message and moves fast.
Captures middle school in all its miserable glory, and explores the relationship between two girls working on very different coping mechanisms.
Cute! :) The ending felt a mite abrupt but ehhh. I was reading this at 1 AM, I didn't need something that was going to go on long anyways.
An OK book about a girl who works hard to match up kids into friendships but doesn't have any friends for herself. It's an interesting premise and makes me wonder just what kind of person she would have paired me with if she'd been at my school back when I was 12. (Probably written off as a TL...?)
Ah well, it was still fun to read even if you can kind of guess that the journal she writes in was going to take a nasty "Harriet the Spy" turn (does anyone still read that?) It has some good things to...more
Ah well, it was still fun to read even if you can kind of guess that the journal she writes in was going to take a nasty "Harriet the Spy" turn (does anyone still read that?) It has some good things to...more
As an adult I did not care for the book, but my sixth grade girls loved it! That's why I read it!
Such a good book! Cant believe it! at first Tanya and Lara had the same things in common - but lara had no time for friends (weird but interesting! xD )
this is one of my favoriate books
Okay, but I didn't love it.
SM
I saw a lot of myself in this book. I think preteens will enjoy this read.
Dec 03, 2012
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Brandy says...
Lara believes herself to be a Loner By Choice establishes herself as a Friendship Matchmaker, a sort of counselor and platonic dating service in one. Then she gets into a competition with a new girl who believes Lara's rules for friendships are insane and mean giving up everything you are, so are these friendships really genuine?
Lara believes herself to be a Loner By Choice establishes herself as a Friendship Matchmaker, a sort of counselor and platonic dating service in one. Then she gets into a competition with a new girl who believes Lara's rules for friendships are insane and mean giving up everything you are, so are these friendships really genuine?
Reviewed on my book blog: http://sharingsoda.blogspot.com/2012/...
This book looks like it is going to be great like all Randa's other books.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah was born in Sydney in 1979. She is a Muslim of Palestinian and Egyptian heritage. She grew up in Melbourne and attended a Catholic primary school and Islamic secondary college where she obtained an International Baccaularetate. She studied Arts/Law at Melbourne University during which time she was the Media Liaison Officer at the Islamic council of Victoria, a role which afforde...more
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