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224th out of 250 books
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Just Grace (Just Grace #1)
by
Charise Mericle Harper (Goodreads Author)
Grace loves cats. She also loves taking pictures of cats and drawing Not-So Super comics. She doesn’t like Sammy Stringer, a boy in her class. She’s got lots and lots of ideas, and when her neighbor’s cat goes missing, Grace does her best to make Mrs. Luther feel less lonely. But as the mystery of the missing cat continues, Grace’s well-intentioned plan backfires, and she...more
Hardcover, 144 pages
Published
April 23rd 2007
by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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This book is written in a diary form, with short chapters, giving the first person viewpoint of a fictional character named Grace Stewart. Among the many Graces in one classroom, a young girl named Grace Stewart becomes Just Grace. She definitely has her own personality and expresses it throughout this short chapter book. Charise Mericle Harper develops such a great narrator voice with Just Grace and it was so fun to get to know her. She isn’t afraid to say what’s on her mind, especially about s...more
This is a perfect transitional book for readers moving towards more advanced children's novels. The story is told from the point of view of Grace, or "Just Grace" as she is called in class, as she discusses he super power, her neighbors, and the people in her class. The book as written in the way that a child would speak and tell the story, making it very authentic and relatable to children reading it.I found the story charming and the events that a child would actually get involved in. I also l...more
Perfect for kids transitioning to YA books! Recently I started mentoring a girl in the 4th grade and I am so out of touch with kids literature these days. Admittedly, I'm not that much older but it's been almost 15 years since I was in 4th grade and I have no idea what the cool new books are (a quick scan of the elementary school library yielded no Sweet Valley, Babysitter's Club, or Animorphs). I quickly put in a request for the first two books in the Just Grace series.
Pros:
+ simple sentences....more
Pros:
+ simple sentences....more
Jan 24, 2013
Anggi Hafiz
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommended to Anggi by:
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Pengalaman membaca Amos Lee: The Series (1-3) membuat saya penasaran untuk membaca bacaan semacam itu. Pilihan saya jatuh pada buku ini. At first sight, saya tertarik pada judulnya. Mengingatkan saya pada seorang murid bernama Grace, lalu Grace Natalie, dan lagu The Amazing Grace. Namun, sulit untuk menulis catatan tentang buku ini tanpa membuat perbandingan dengan serial Amos Lee. Secara rentang waktu alur penceritaan, keduanya memiliki persamaan. Pemuatan ilustrasi yang memberi dukungan visual...more
bayangkan kalo dikelas ada 4 orang dengan nama yang sama. hal itu terjadi sama Grace. dikelasnya ada 4 orang dengan nama Grace, untuk memudahkan semua orang membedakan yang mana Grace ini dan itu maka dibuatlah nama panggilan masing-masing. Grace Wallac dipanggil Grace W. Grace Francis dipanggil Grace F. Grace Landowski dipanggil Gracie, sedangkan Grace Stewart yang awalnya ingin dipanggil Grace aja malah harus dipanggil Grace Aja karena peraturan wali kelasnya, haha... konyol, sumpah...
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Grace is an interesting girl. Her plea to her teacher to be called "just Grace" in the face of four girls with the same name in her class turns that simple request into her nickname for the rest for the year. Just Grace like photography, cats, drawing comics and her downstairs neighbour who is a fashionable French flight attendant. She does not like Sammy (who spit grape juice on her at her 6th birthday party), Grace F. (who is just a big meanie) and being called "Just Grace".
When Grace learns t...more
When Grace learns t...more
Can you ever have too much grace? Evidently, because there are so many Graces in one class that they all must be called by other names. When she speaks up and tells the teacher that she wants to be called just "Grace," the young girl finds herself misunderstood and ends up "Just Grace" for the rest of the school year. Just Grace loves watching a TV show about real-life superheroes and decides that her special gift is empathy. Understanding that true empathy requires a response, Grace likes to he...more
It happened to me, too! Susah yak punya nama pasaran. Waktu kelas dua smp ada empat orang Nur di kelas. Nur Pambudi, Nuraini, Nur Sari Ningsih, dan me. Luckily, all of us got our own nicknames already. XD
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Tadinya mau kasih tiga bintang tapi pas inget bagian Grace moto-moto si Crinkles karton di mana-mana bareng sama Mimi, trus ngeprint sendiri, gw harus nambahin satu bintang lagi. Girls, you're so awesome! and they just on their third grade. Anak sekarang emang pada pinter2 kali ya?
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Tadinya mau kasih tiga bintang tapi pas inget bagian Grace moto-moto si Crinkles karton di mana-mana bareng sama Mimi, trus ngeprint sendiri, gw harus nambahin satu bintang lagi. Girls, you're so awesome! and they just on their third grade. Anak sekarang emang pada pinter2 kali ya?
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Oct 27, 2011
Dolly
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
children starting to read longer chapter books
This is the first book in the Just Grace series by Charise Mericle Harper. The narrative is certainly written from a child's point of view and the illustrations are very much in a child's style as well. I love the way she describes her "superpower" and the actions she takes to cheer up her neighbor. I also love that it tells about the real fears a child has, no matter how insignificant they may seem to someone else.
The book is written as a continuous story, with small subsections, but no real c...more
The book is written as a continuous story, with small subsections, but no real c...more
Dec 13, 2010
Jackie
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Shelves:
animals-cats,
5012,
children-fiction,
compassion,
friendship,
humor,
school,
bluestem-nominee-2012
Since there are four girls named Grace in her class, they each have to take on some way to be identified. Grace says, she 'wants to be called just Grace'...so there you have it she is now Just Grace. Sigh. Grace loves Crinkles, her neighbor Mrs. Luther's cat. She doesn't like Mrs. Luther, she has scary masks on her wall and has jars of lion poop in her house (from her many travels, at least we hope). But, when Crinkles goes missing and Grace may have an itsy-bitsy inkling where the cat may be, s...more
Just Grace is a great chapter book for readers in second and third grade. The title will appeal mostly to girls, though neither Grace nor the book are particularly girly. The language is fairly simple and the plot is easy to follow. While Grace goes to school, the story focuses mostly on Grace's interest in her neighbor. I especially like that Grace is kind and considerate in a way that second and third grades can relate to. She's generous and forgiving with her friends but has a hard time apply...more
I tend to like character driven stories and I liked Grace. She is in 4th grade, I think, and explains things very clearly, and very simply. In fact she is a little one dimensional, but it's cute because it sounds like the way a child would think. She believes herself to have super hero powers in the way of empathy. When her neighbor, Mrs. Luther, loses her cat, Grace photoshops the cat into places around the neighborhood and makes these pictures into postcards that she sends to Mrs. Luther. She...more
Grace is a little bit afraid of her next door neighbor, Mrs. Luther. Mrs. Luthor has scary masks hanging on her walls and aways wears a dress that 'looks like a witch' while at home. Mrs. Luther has a very sweet cat, Crinkles, who is scared of Mrs. Luther now that she has broken her leg and is wearing a bright orange cast. Even though Grace is a bit scared of Mrs. Luther, she feels bad about Crinkles and hatches a plan to make Mrs. Luther feel better. However, the plan gets derailed when Crinkle...more
Grace becomes Just Grace because there are three other girls named Grace in her third grade class. As you can imagine she is not thrilled with being Just Grace. Grace likes to have empathy for other people and make them feel better by doing nice things for them. Grace makes postcards and sends them to her neighbor, Mrs. Luther to make her feel better, but the project back fires on her. Sammy Stringer, a boy that she has never liked helps to get her out of her jam. There were some life lessons in...more
There is never a dull moment in your life when your name is Grace. Discover her world and the trials of being a 3rd grader. Almost a collection of short stories that do have a common thread. You are introduced to her school, neighborhood, family and friends. Go along with her many zany ideas which ultimately lead her into trouble. A girl who strikes you as wise beyond her years with an over active imagination which equals laughter and fun.
My 7 year old daughter and I read this story together. Sh...more
My 7 year old daughter and I read this story together. Sh...more
I listened to the audiobook format of this story. I have a mixed review of it. The reader uses a childlike voice which is appropriate for the story but it goes along a bit slowly. I also had a hard time getting into the story so I had to get the book to understand the format. The story is told from Grace's thoughts and in the book you can see that she makes lists and draws cartoons to express herself. It is unusual to listen to and without the illustrations I think you lose some of the story. Af...more
This is a kid's book and not really written with my demographic in mind, but I still found it very enjoyable. It's really just a story of being a kid in a world controlled by mainly benevolent but sometimes puzzling adult despots. I think Harper gets the world of the middle grader pretty much right, at least what I can remember of it. Kids' concerns are not our adult ones, but that doesn't mean their concerns aren't real.
I found it a little hard to believe that her teacher insisted that she be s...more
I found it a little hard to believe that her teacher insisted that she be s...more
great read for grade 2 to 4
there are 8 books in this series.
Just Grace is a great chapter book for readers in second and third grade. The title will appeal mostly to girls, though neither Grace nor the book are particularly girly. The language is fairly simple and the plot is easy to follow.
I tend to like character driven stories and I liked Grace. She is in 4th grade, I think, and explains things very clearly, and very simply. In fact she is a little one dimensional, but it's cute because it...more
there are 8 books in this series.
Just Grace is a great chapter book for readers in second and third grade. The title will appeal mostly to girls, though neither Grace nor the book are particularly girly. The language is fairly simple and the plot is easy to follow.
I tend to like character driven stories and I liked Grace. She is in 4th grade, I think, and explains things very clearly, and very simply. In fact she is a little one dimensional, but it's cute because it...more
Jan 04, 2011
Alyson (Kid Lit Frenzy)
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
early-chapter-books
I have mixed feelings about this book. On some level there are some fun things about this book...how Grace gets to be called "Just Grace" and also her thoughts about different students in the class, etc. However, the story is told from Grace's perspective in a rambling kind of way with lists and other drawings/comics thrown in. The rambling, free thought was confusing at some points and at other points it just slowed everything down.
The Just Grace series is geared for 2nd and 3rd grade girls. G...more
The Just Grace series is geared for 2nd and 3rd grade girls. G...more
Seven-year-old Grace will remind readers strongly of Junie B. Jones, with a grammatical style only slightly less irritating. Couldn't finish this book due to the too-obvious wannabe similarities, still, perfect for kids wanting a readalike. Grace is known as Just Grace after her teacher misunderstands her request to be called just "Grace," in a classroom with four other Graces. Just Grace has a small superpower, which gets her into trouble. Small graphics and photos are inserted throughout the l...more
I listened to this on CD. It was a charming, little book--only 2 CDs long. If I had read it in hard copy, it may have been less charming---but the narrator of this book "voiced" the protaganist Grace with humor and she gave a 3rd grade kind of emphasis to many of the sentences. Grace is one of 4 Graces in her 3rd grade classroom and is called Just Grace as opposed to Grace F., Grace L., and Grace N. It's reminiscent of Junie B. Jones but less frenetic. Grace is a thoughtful 9-year-old who tries...more
A serviceable beginner's chapter book about a girl (Grace) who likes to draw and make people who are sad feel better. I liked Grace's premise that there should be "Super Heroes" who have small powers like hers ("Empathy" is definitely the tier-2 vocabulary word to teach out of this book). That said, though the author captures the tortured syntax we sometimes see in children's writing, I often found the book difficult to read because of the attempt to write as an elementary student. I also find o...more
Tahun ajaran baru tiba. Sekarang Grace duduk di kelas tiga. Hal yang menyenangkan adalah bisa sekelas dengan Mimi, saabatnya sejak kecil. Yang menyebalkan, ia harus menerima panggilan paling konyol selama setahun atau bahkan selamanya. Semua itu dikarenakan ada tiga anak perempuan lainnya yang juga memiliki nama depan yang sama. Jika yang lain akan dipanggil dengan Grace W, Grace L, Grace F, ia akan dipanggil “Grace Aja”. Bukannya “Grace” aja seperti yang diinginkannya. Grace sangat sedih karena...more
Nama aslinya Grace Stewart. Namun, lantaran di kelasnya ada empat tiga anak lain lagi yang juga bernama Grace, maka masing-masing Grace mendapat sebutan sendiri untuk membedakannya. Dan meski tidak suka, Grace Stewart tak mampu menolak ketika akhirnya guru dan teman-temannya sepakat memanggilnya Grace Aja (dan bukan "Grace" aja).=
Seperti lazimnya anak-anak, Grace senang melakukan dan ingin tahu tentang banyak hal. Beruntunglah Grace karena memiliki orang tua yang membebaskannya melakukan apa sa...more
Seperti lazimnya anak-anak, Grace senang melakukan dan ingin tahu tentang banyak hal. Beruntunglah Grace karena memiliki orang tua yang membebaskannya melakukan apa sa...more
Grace is a third grader with an interesting life. Her parents rent their basement to a lady from France, she's taught herself how to take great photos and enjoys drawing "Not So Super" (hero) comics, inspired by the television show "Unlikely Heroes". Her own superhero power is the power of empathy, which she uses to help her neighbor and her neighbor's cat. In this first book of the series, we follow Grace (who gets her name "Just Grace" because there are four Graces in her class at school) as s...more
I wanted to slap this book. I mean, it's cute, I guess. Grace likes to draw comics. She likes to think of herself as a superhero, her power being... empathy. Hmm. Cute? Maybe? Sure, whatever. Anyway, what makes me want to hit this book are Grace's stupid parents. She does this nice thing for some old lady, but because she didn't like, inform her parents of her every freakin' move they punish her... for doing something nice... It was like the end of an episode of Full House, where one of the kids...more
So, I'm at the local Barnes and Noble, unconsciously retreating away from the doom and gloom of the new J.K. Rowling release, when my eyes settle on this book. I pick it up, intending to read a few chapters to pass the time, and then be on my way. So it was that, quite unintentionally, somewhere among the forgotten-but-funny realizations of my childhood and Grace's drawings of hers, I got sucked into this book. I really enjoyed the "Postcards from Crinkles the Cat" and the plot twist at the end....more
Just Grace is a wonderful book. Grace is in the same league with Clementine, Ruby Lu, Judy Moody and their literary big sister Ramona Quimby. She is a kid who thinks deeply about how to help others around her, and ends up getting things just a bit wrong in a very funny way. The incidents that are funniest are the ones that seem most reasonable to Grace. Great for any elementary kid as a read aloud for the younger kids and great to read independently for grades 2 and up.
A cute little book. A student of mine recommended it to me after we finished the Clemintine series. Similar in the way it seeks to empower its young girl readers but a different enough narrative structure and some neat illustrations.
Apparently this is a series, but I think I will hold off on reading any more for a bit.
Being a teacher, I love the way the main character gets her nickname. I have never really considered that sometimes the kids might not like the names we bestow upon them to help te...more
Apparently this is a series, but I think I will hold off on reading any more for a bit.
Being a teacher, I love the way the main character gets her nickname. I have never really considered that sometimes the kids might not like the names we bestow upon them to help te...more
Just Grace was on a list of books on CD recommended by our library. The audio version is apparently lacking because a young listener can't visualize the writing style (Grace likes to make lists and draw cartoons of her thoughts I think). My kindergartener liked it but I had to have a talk with him about Grace's negative attitude and sneaky choices. Definitely meant for an older audience. We'll stick to Magic Treehouse and Junie B.
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