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Emma Dilemma #3
Emma Dilemma and the Soccer Nanny
Emma has a new dilemma. Her traveling soccer team has its first game in Washington, DC, and she wishes Annie, the family’s totally cool Irish nanny, can be her team chaperone. Mom wants to go, but Mom doesn’t know the difference between a shin guard and a soccer ball. Not only that, she’d never let Emma’s ferret stay at the hotel. And the ferret is their good luck charm. Finally, Mom doesn’t really understand Emma’s problem with Katie, the ball hog on the team who has been trying to take over Emma’s position. Then there’s the problem of the two pets that are hiding in Annie’s apartment on the third floor. How does Emma solve so many problems all at once? With her usual cleverness and drive, she finds out that families and soccer teams have a lot in common.
112 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2008
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May 27, 2013
Nice story with several funny moments.
I got this book to share with my seven-year-old daughter and she enjoyed it quite a bit. That being said, she liked the "side plots" a lot more than the main topic, which had to do with the soccer dilemma. Emma wants her nanny to travel with her to DC as chaperon for a soccer game, but her mother wants to be the one that goes instead. In order to achieve her goal, Emma starts pushing buttons and acting out like most kids her age would do, and the author does a great job if representing this realistically. This also helps with how kids will perceive this story as something that could potentially happen to them. Even though my daughter plays soccer, she was not that interested on this part of the story.
She did enjoy a lot more the sections that had to do with funny situations involving animals, ferrets, cats and dogs. This was the highlight of the book for her, and it was hard to get her to talk about any other aspects of this story. From my perspective though, the way in which the dilemma is constructed and presented is top notch. It is done in a way in which kids can comprehend and draw conclusions from, even if these are not drawn consciously. Kids at this age are always pushing the limits, and reading about topics like these helps them understand that this is common but that there may be consequences in terms of hurting other people feelings if things go too far.
Overall, a very nice book that left me wanting to get another book in the series so my daughter can explore Emma's adventures further.
I got this book to share with my seven-year-old daughter and she enjoyed it quite a bit. That being said, she liked the "side plots" a lot more than the main topic, which had to do with the soccer dilemma. Emma wants her nanny to travel with her to DC as chaperon for a soccer game, but her mother wants to be the one that goes instead. In order to achieve her goal, Emma starts pushing buttons and acting out like most kids her age would do, and the author does a great job if representing this realistically. This also helps with how kids will perceive this story as something that could potentially happen to them. Even though my daughter plays soccer, she was not that interested on this part of the story.
She did enjoy a lot more the sections that had to do with funny situations involving animals, ferrets, cats and dogs. This was the highlight of the book for her, and it was hard to get her to talk about any other aspects of this story. From my perspective though, the way in which the dilemma is constructed and presented is top notch. It is done in a way in which kids can comprehend and draw conclusions from, even if these are not drawn consciously. Kids at this age are always pushing the limits, and reading about topics like these helps them understand that this is common but that there may be consequences in terms of hurting other people feelings if things go too far.
Overall, a very nice book that left me wanting to get another book in the series so my daughter can explore Emma's adventures further.
October 12, 2009
I purchased this book because it was an easy chapter book (Lexile 490) about girls and sports. But although a close soccer game plays a part in this book, it is more about Emma and her relationship with her siblings (all four)and her parents than her relationship with Nanny Annie O'Reilly. Emma is manipulative, pouty, and sometimes even delusional, and she is determined to have Annie be the chaperone on a field trip to Washington D.C. instead of her mother, who Emma is convinced does not trust her; and she is obsessed with excelling over her rival for the left wing position to the point. However, she is a good soccer player, and she finally lets the coach's admonition to the team (maybe especially Emma?) to practice teamwork overcome her desire to be the star player--especially where rival Katie is concerned. A funny sub-plot about a strike involving her and her sisters and brothers turns out both better and worse than Emma expected when she organized it.
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July 10, 2015
Emma Dilemma is definitely in the same vein as Junie B. Jones and company. She is a precocious pre-teen with a penchant for problems. In this book, Emma wants to go to a long distance soccer competition with her nanny, Annie, and her ferret, Marmaduke -- not her mom. She wants this so badly, she's willing to go on strike and cause tons of trouble. Sometimes her bratty attitude rubs me the wrong way, but her innocence wins out and makes Emma Dilemma a decent read for the Junie B.
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July 15, 2013
What I liked about this book is that at the end of the book Emma and Katie finally got along because they both won the soccer game. But I did not like when Emma kept a secret from her mom.
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