I am a queen. I live in a castle, right across the street from the John Howard Housing Projects. Every day right after school I run to my bedroom w...
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Jan 16, 2009
Lou
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Whenever I stand in the corner, I close my eyes and see myself sitting on a throne in a long white gown with a giant ruby crown on my head. I’m telling all the people who serve me to polish the silver and scrub the floors clean for the royal party.
Queen Rosseau
My name is Marie Queen Rousseau. I live in a castle on 33rd Street right across the street from the John Howard Housing Project. My father named me Queen because he wanted everyone to know that More...
Queen Rosseau
My name is Marie Queen Rousseau. I live in a castle on 33rd Street right across the street from the John Howard Housing Project. My father named me Queen because he wanted everyone to know that More...
Jan 27, 2011
Charlyn
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Queen Marie is a spoiled, self-centered fifth-grader who has no friends because of her uppity attitude. She is so spoiled by her father and three older brothers that she believes she is the center of the universe. It's a little difficult to work up sympathy for a child that even the teacher dislikes. But Leroy doesn't let it bother him. She can be a queen because he's a prince from Africa. He, however, lacks the polish, the clothes or the attitude that Queen possesses. He smells and rides
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Aug 08, 2008
Jennifer
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Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.com
Queen is an incredibly stuck up ten-year-old girl whose family's praise has given her a very high opinion of herself. Her father and older brothers have spoiled her to the point where she's very, very easy to dislike. Unsurprisingly, no one at school seems to appreciate or recognize her supposed superiority.
Leroy is a new boy in her class, who smells funny and whose bike is broken. Queen is sure that he's a liar, especially More...
Queen is an incredibly stuck up ten-year-old girl whose family's praise has given her a very high opinion of herself. Her father and older brothers have spoiled her to the point where she's very, very easy to dislike. Unsurprisingly, no one at school seems to appreciate or recognize her supposed superiority.
Leroy is a new boy in her class, who smells funny and whose bike is broken. Queen is sure that he's a liar, especially More...
Aug 05, 2007
Elizabeth
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I'm probably the laziest person I know when it comes to reviewing books. I'm okay on the reading part, and I'm just ducky at putting a book in my To Be Reviewed Pile. It's at the point when the book merges with the general pile that I tend to get distracted, though. Books get seriously frighteningly buried. I guess that's the danger with a vertical rather than a horizontal pile. Then the mediocre books begin to disappear from my mind. I forget their details and their characters. I can't conjure
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Mar 28, 2009
Queen has been treated as such by her parents, but especially her father, since she was a baby. Consequently, she tends to act like she is better than other people, which isn't helped by the fact that she's so smart. Then a new boy comes to school, riding a broken bike and smelling a little. Queen feels sure he tells lies, but everyone really likes him. While trying to catch him in one of his lies, Queen learns a few things along the way, including what it means to be a good friend.
Aug 12, 2008
george
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Queen Rosseau really thinks she is a queen. She waves at her subjects from her castle and she is a spoiled brat. Completely. So much so that the reader actually feels hatred towards her. All Queen can think about is "me me me": how can people serve me, how can I show off, what will people give me? Then she meets Leory and she instantly hates him. He smells. Really bad. And he rides a broken bike. And worst of all, he claims to be a prince of Senegal! How on earth can this smelly boy cl
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Mar 27, 2011
Elaine
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Another book I read with Thula. She liked it enough. It's set in Philadelphia and has some African immigrant themes. The author intentionally made the main character unlikable and so I didn't enjoy it that much. It was a pretty forgetable book.
Feb 24, 2011
Miasha
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This boy who rides a bike wears messed up clothes is from places that queen of 33 street is not from. They dont like each other at first all they did was talking about each other. but at the end they do
Jan 22, 2010
a girl named queen is very bossy and is a know it all until she finds someone who is smarter than her. she doesnt like this boy leroy because not very sanitary either.
Jan 10, 2012
Katherine
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Samuel liked this so much that he recommended it to me. It'll be interesting to discuss with him what he liked about it.
Sep 07, 2010
its so far about just some little boy in the fifth grade and this girl who likes him and her friends jokes on him about his bike
Dec 23, 2009
Lorena
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A good, quick read with a great story about friendship. Great for elementary school and even middle school.
Jul 01, 2010
Jean
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Queen doesn't think she is better than everyone else. She KNOWS she is better because she is a Queen who lives in a castle and everyone bows down to her. Well, actually her name is Queen, she lives in an apartment building that sort of looks like a castle, and her father and brothers spoil her because she is the youngest and the only girl. As readers we know she has to get her comeuppance somehow and we secretly relish the idea. The ending comes too abruptly, but we've seen a glimmer of chan
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Feb 25, 2011
Miasha
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A young girl and boy who always get into it at the end they like each other
Mar 19, 2009
omg in that likk stage lmaooooooooo
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this book was so good but it is really for little kids
Jan 28, 2008
Molly
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A cute story about a young girl who believs herself to be a queen and therefore better than everyone around her. It takes a young boy who smells like pee to change her life for the better.
Nov 28, 2010
Abby
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I liked this way more than I thought I would. More on the blog: http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2010/10/...
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