I think this book was great I like the way the author, Meg Cabot, organized this book. It was in a perspective of a little girl named Allie, which is hard to write a book about someone that is not the same age as you. I'm sure she had to do a lot of research and think really deep about her childhood. The way they describe Allie is a really easy- to- get- person. When you tell Allie something she believes it like other children her age, especially coming from an adult. Allie's character is just like my little cousin. They both believe in what they want, and would love to get their way whenever they possibly can. Another thing that I think is weird is that Allie has a set of rules that are just unbelievable, I haven't met anyone that keep a set of rules on what to do and what not to do. She has really crazy rules like DO NOT EAT ANYTHING RED, and weird stuff like that. I really like this book because I was once eight and I could relate to what she is doing in this book. I would definitely recommend this book to mostly girls, if anyone boy wants to try reading this book; I definitely think they should go for it. I would rate this book 3 1/2 out of 5 stars, because there was a place in this book that I really think was boring and this was the towards the middle, they gave too much details in that part, that I got bored of it so I read another whole book, then I decided that I wanted to give this book another try so I started back form where I stopped Other than that I really liked it. I would say this book is for ages 8- 15 or 4th grade to 11th grade. I hope you ALL read this book and have as much fun reading it as I did.