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Caddy's World
By MCKAY, Hilary
- ISBN
- 978-1-4424-4105-7 978-1-4424-4107-1
- Publisher
- S & S Margaret K. McElderry Bks.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Starred Review on March 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 4–8—The Cassons are back. Huzzah! McKay's previous five titles about this quirky British family seemed to have told the whole story, but this title is a prequel that introduces the family at a time when the eldest, Caddy, is 12, and youngest, Rose, is just arriving. As always, the humor is abundantly evident with several laugh-out-loud scenes. However, Caddy's woes and those of her three best friends are taken seriously. Dieting, moving, changing schools, a n...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2012
Hilary McKay is a master juggler. Here she starts with four middle-school girls, in a friendship so tight they seem to blur together: "AlisonRubyanBethanme." "Me" is Cadmium Casson (eldest of the Casson children, and first introduced in Saffy's Angel, rev. 7/02), and the members of her chaotic, loving, anxious, hilarious, iconoclastic family are q...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Readers of <i>Saffy's Angel</i> and its sequels will happily realize that this is a prequel: a visit to the time when Caddy was twelv...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
