Maggie Bean Stays Afloat

Maggie Bean #2

by Tricia Rayburn

Here's what's new with Maggie Bean: At the end of her tumultuous year, Maggie Bean is a very happy, healthy girl. After months of Pound Patrollers attendance, diet, and tough swim workouts, the scale now reads 150. But Maggie isn't resting on her laurels - she's got a busy summer ahead. Not only is Maggie spearheading a Pound Patrollers kids' program but she gets a junior camp counselor job at Camp Sound View. Camp Sound View is a whole new world for Maggie. She works with kids from other schools who don't know her, or what she looked like a year ago. Everyone's friendly, boys treat her like a real girl, and Maggie is mesmerized! The experience is something she knows never would've been possible the summer before. Wounded by Peter's recent rejection and flattered by the unexpected attention, Maggie immerses herself in everything Camp Sound View has to offer. Her confidence grows, and before long she's cracking jokes and initiating conversation without worrying (much) about what people think. It's all fun and games until Maggie becomes so involved, people (Aimee, Arnie and her family) feel neglected. Will Maggie sacrifice old friends for new ones? Will she change what's on the inside as people respond to her changed outside? Can she blend her two worlds together? And will all this tension send her seeking solace in old habits?

Genres: Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Summer

316 pages, Paperback

First published May 6, 2008

About the author

Tricia Rayburn lives on eastern Long island with her fiancé and crazy shih tzu. She tries to eat vegetables instead of candy but, in her weaker moments, loves Reese's Pieces. The Melting of Maggie Bean is her first novel.

Reviews

[Jennifer Wardrip · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com

Maggie hasn't eaten chocolate in 92 days. She's in great shape thanks to her newfound love of swimming. Plus, her days at Pound Patrollers are coming to an end, or so she thinks.

She and Arnie are asked to help create a Pound Patroller program for kids. In addition, Maggie also becomes a summer camp swim instructor. Soon, she's hanging out with other swim instructors and becoming one of the in crowd.

Will she blow off her old friends to become a popular girl?

The second novel starring Maggie Bean shows her inner struggle as she tries to find her comfort zone in her new body. Her frustrations and dilemmas make you want to laugh and cry along with her.

[*erica* · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maggie hates her life, she wishes she was popular, her dad is allways switching new jobs, they dont live in the best place and her past is
befor she once weighed 180. but now with the help of a weight loss gruop and her best friends by her side she got to 120 and was a healthy 7th grder. But when she has to be a swim instructor at her lil sisters camp she meants new and popluar friends... shes so destracted by her new friends that she forgets her old and real friends.... does she ditch her old friends and hang with the new??? WELL READ THIS BOOK AND FIND OUT!!!!! oh well this is the second book so read the first!

[Bookworm_325 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book because it had drama and love and understanding and hardships it summed up life through a girl's point of view. I really liked how later in the book Maggie started to understand the problems she was now facing because of her choices to hang out with her new friends. She had neglected her job with Arnie and she has also made her best friends feel neglected. I don't understand why Peter told Maggie right now isn't a good time, I'm not sure if I ever will but, on the bright side Arnie Finally told Maggie how he felt about her and I think in the future they will become boyfriend and girlfriend. I am super happy that everything worked out for Maggie in the end. Overall, I thought this was an amazing book I totally recommend it to anyone who loves romance, drama, helping others, and staying true to yourself.

[Caroline Koerner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maggie Bean Stays Afloat, by Tricia Rayburn, is about a young teen with all her troubles. At the beginning of the summer she wants nothing to do with anyone after the boy she likes rejects her. She had planned to sit on the couch all summer, but her mom found her a job. The job was to go and work at a summer camp. She also gets the opportunity to help younger kids lose weight with her good friend, Arnie. At summer camp she meets her new friends Polly, Ben, and Jason. She ends up spending all her time outside of camp and being and working with Arnie, she was with them. She even ditched many Patrol This meetings to be with them. She loses her true friends, Arnie and Aimee, because she never hangs out with them and starts acting stuck up to them. She ends up loosing her new friends also cause they find out who she used to be, overweight and chubby. In the end she ends up happier than she was at the beginning of the summer with her friends, Arnie and Aimee, and also helping younger kids lose weight.

I did not like this book very much. I didn't like this book very much cause it kind of made me sad with all the bad choices she made. One of the bad choices she made was to hang out and go to parties with Polly, Ben, and Jason. I also didn't like how it was calling people fat. Towards the end the author gave up on giving details. The last two chapters were very hard to follow. They were at camp and Maggie and her camp friends were talking right after she was mad at them, which I didn't get. I also didn't really get how they didn't say anything about getting a new house then the last chapter was about her housewarming party. If I were to rewrite it I would give more detail about her camp friends after the big scene and give more detail on them buying the house.

I would not recommend this book for other young teens or kids. If you're looking for a sad story about a teenage this is the book. If you are looking for a funny story this is not it.

[Carly · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was a great book.

[Maya Little-Saña · Rating 1 out of 5]

I still remember how this book made me think that losing weight would make my life better.

[Leahley · Rating 3 out of 5]

maggie will be a karen one day mark my words

[Laramie Davitian · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book "Maggie Bean Stays Afloat", is about a young but over weight girl. When Maggie joins a club for weight lose, she meets her best friend Arnie. Mags and Arnie have been friends ever since, but that all changes when Mags gets a new job as a junior swim instructor at her little sisters summer day camp. There, she meets a whole new set of friends that she leaves her old ones for. Her used to be best friend Amii, is haging out with her friends in the summer camp and their little group is called the Figure Eights. Maggie, says she's going to have a no boy summer after PEtter Applewood turned Maggie down because of another girl at their school. Ben, tge boy Maggie meets in summer day camp is also a swim instructor, and he falls for Maggie and takes her away from her old friends. Until one day, her new friends find out about her past and how she was so over weight and they stop takling to her for a few days, and Maggie was misserable. But eventually, Maggie just goes back to her real friends, and finds out that Arnie likes her. They get together and start their new relationship at a bbq Maggies parents set up. I would reccomend this book to people that are having relationship problems, and for people that just want a good laugh. This book taught me that new people may come and go, but real friends always are by each others side no matter what.

[Corina J]

Summary- Maggie was a simple girl. She diddn'task for much. Her mom made her go to camp to be a concular. She had ended up making new friends and to top it all of she had started a new program called pound patrolers or weight loss camp. Although Electra scared every kid. In about a week Arnie and Maggie took over. They got them to step on the scale without crying. She went everywhere with her new friends. She started diching her old ones. Soon her new friends found out she used to be overweight and they diched her. Her friends forgaver her and her family bought a new house.

Main Charcters- Maggie- She is really shy and insecure about herself. When a better offer came along she took it. Arnie- He is supper fun and is great with kids. When Maggie diches him he didn't find a new friend. He waited. Aimee- She has been best friends with Maggie for forever. When Maggie diches her she has the camp girls to hang out with.

Setting- In Calafornia. On the beach.

Conflict- Maggie diches her old friens for new ones.

Resolution- Her new friends dich her and she apoligies to her old friends. Her old friends forgive her.

Recommadtion- I recommond this book to anyone because it is funny. It teaches a life lession that everyone should learn.

[Brianna Pieper · Rating 5 out of 5]

As Maggie Bean continues to struggle with weight, Pound Patrollers comes to a close. Her and Arnie are asked to start Patrol This, a weight loss program for kids. Neither really want to do it, but Arnie makes it fun, and the kids can't wait until next week. Along with that, Maggie's summer starts with working as a junior swim instructor at a local camp. It's full of high school kids, but one Ben invites her on a date and they go out for about a month until they find out about her troubled past. Along with that, Aimee and Arnie are hardly seen, and when she decides to return to their lives, they're not very forgiving at first. And along with all this, her family struggles to quit being a renter and become home owners. But eventually, everyone forgives Maggie, she's back on top, and she finds home.

[Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maggie is happy and healthy and on her last Pound Patrollers meeting, she and Arnie were invited to help with a new company, Patrol This (Pound Patrollers for kids) and design the website. Maggie is also a junior counselor for swimming at Camp Sound View. She becomes friends with Ben, Jason, and Polly. She doesn't get to talk to Aimee that often so they get into a fight and Aimee won't speak to her. Since she is so busy whith her new friends, she and Arnie and Aimee are growning apart. But, when her new friends do something rude, She realizes how important her real friends are. I would recommend this book to a girl who likes a good read. I recommend that you read the first one first.

[Jill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rayburn does an excellent job of letting us know who Maggie Bean really is. We can identify with her, while at the same time recognize her mistakes (like not finding out what was going on with her best friend--who is an awesome friend, btw.) Or like getting caught up in hanging out with/liking an older boy when the one right in front of you that's been there through thick (literally!) and thin, might just be the one you should be hanging out with. Rayburn shows us how to admit and own your mistakes and the power of forgiveness. Can't wait to read the 3rd one!

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read the first book. Have to read the first book to get the second book. I thought it was pretty good. Just to fill you in the first book is about a girl named Maggie Bean. Maggie Bean loves to eat choclate which leads to her being overweight. I liked the first book because it was telling how a girl my age overweight and how she felt. I could put myself into her shoes. Second one is about her summer.

[Candice · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really awesome companion to the Melting of Maggie Bean, it touches on a really sensitive subject for most people -- obesity. Maggie Bean used to be 200 pounds +, but after chasing after an intense dream to join the Water Wings, the school swim team where all the popular girls reside, she loses weight and her craving and addiction to chocolate. She regains her self esteem, and becomes a healthier person.
This book is sublime for preteens and teens.

[StorySnoops · Rating 3 out of 5]

This second in the Maggie Bean series is just as engaging and rewarding as the first. Positive body image is celebrated as Maggie becomes a mentor in a weight loss program for younger kids, and has to not only keep making healthy choices for herself, but figure out fun and creative ways to gets kids to buy into the program as well. Maggie declined to swim with the Water Wings... (click for full review http://www.storysnoops.com/detail.php...)

[Kelly☆ · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is the second book of the Maggie Bean serise. This time Maggie loses weight and is happy about it. But when Peter Appelwood comes and becomes her friend. She's trying to prove that she's the right girl for him. Will it work or will she embraress herself in front of everybody?

I choosed this book because I fealt like it.

I finished this book because I had nothing to do.

I recomend this book to Lana G.

[Jules · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book a lot better than the first one. This was probably because Maggie wasn't struggling as much with her weight and eating issues, so it was much happier in that way. I really hope that Tricia Rayburn comes out with another one, because I can't wait to find out what happens next!

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was like any other book written about a teenage girl. Girl likes boy, boy likes her back, but best friend who is a boy likes her. Lost a lot of weight, family doesn't have that much money, Blag blah blah blah blah.

[Jane K]

I thought that it was a pretty good book. Just like Maggie Bean the first one, a teenage girl can really compare the problems maggie bean faces with their own problems. I thought it was a really good book and I think that people who are into girly book should read it.

[Renee Nordquist · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book for the single fact that almost every young girl is in a position somewhat like Maggie's and it's wonderful for girls to understand no matter how hard things can be things will work out:)

[Morgan Lemke · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second book of maggie bean, and u will figure out that maggie not only deals with all her problems, but also has a few new ones arrising. is it enough? will she cave into chocolate AGAIN?

[Isabella Starvaggi · Rating 2 out of 5]

The sequel to The Melting of Maggie Bean, it is a good continuation of Maggie's story. She gets caught up in her new summer life and friends. She has to remember to pay attention to her old priorities, too.

[ⓘsⓐbεℓℓⓐ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an awesome next book of the series!

[Divyya · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was OK...not the best

[Cristal Espinosa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maggie finds out the guy she likes doesnt like her and just wants to be friends so she thinks life is horrible and starts her horrible habit of eating again.

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another cute Maggie Bean book. I'm hanging on to these for my girls.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I lovedthis book! Maggie and Arnie's relationship was absolutely adorable!

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sequel to Maggie Beans is Melting (or something like that). A bit melodramatic, but I thought the descriptions of how the characters acted and reacted was pretty accurate.

[nikki]

I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this book i couldn't stop reading it!

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it! It was cool how an older, high school kid like a 13-year old like Maggie. Hilarious, just as the first.