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The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine

School year: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

No. of pages 176

Published: 2018

Great for age 7-13 years

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In this second book in the Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine series, ten-year-old Celie's grandmother has moved in with her family, and Granny's forgetfulness is starting to worry Celie. In the meantime, Celie can tell her parents are keeping secrets, but she can't talk to her best friend, Lula, or her sister, Jo, because they're both keeping secrets, too! Why isn't Lula sharing with Celie? Who is Jo texting all the time? And what is Celie supposed to do when special time with her grandmother becomes much more complicated--and possibly dangerous--than Celie can manage on her own? Once again, Celie turns to her diary as she tries to sort this all out, filling the pages with humorous, heartfelt entries, notes, drawings, and pages from her top-secret spy notebook.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called The Top-Secret Diary Of Celie Valentine .

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published in 2018 by Astra Publishing House .

Julie Sternberg, formerly a lawyer for the ACLU, is a MFA student at the New School. This is her first novel.

 

This book is in the following series:

The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine

This book features the following character:

Celie Valentine
This book features the character Celie Valentine.

"Although the issues Celie faces--loss of her best friend, conflicts with her sister, concerns about her cognitively compromised grandmother--are major, the story is in no way heavy... A heartfelt but amusing story about the many challenges of growing up." --Kirkus Reviews "Ten-year-old Celie continues the ultra-honest (and at times unintentionally funny) journal she began in the first book, Friendship Over!... Celie's voice is fresh, completely unselfconscious, and emphatic... Much of the book's considerable humor, as well as its pathos, is communicated in Celie's sketches, diagrams, and notes--scribbly, heartfelt, and immediate." --Horn Book