A Great Read for Girls (and for the rest of us, too)

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	• Just Another Day in My Insanely Real Life Barbara Dee Aladdin, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Two Thumbs Up!!!!

It was a fantastic book with very descriptive words and chapters. I would recommend it to anyone. It is about a girl and her difficult life. The main character is Cassie. Her father left her, and she has to take care of her little brother. Her older sister is always out until after midnight, so Cassie has to do the cooking and cleaning plus her homework. It is a really good book so read it if you want but really try to read it!!!!

A Must Read!

I was on page 30, and I just couldn't put Just Another Day in my Insanely Real Life down! Cassie the main character truly had an insane life at the age of 12. She had problems at school, a mother who worked full time and was divorced, a sister who didn't help her at home and a responsibility to care for her younger her very odd brother. To top it off, her dad has been missing for six months! I liked the book because I could really feel her emotions even though I don't struggle with the same problems. An example of this would be when she thought her teacher just graded her on the pages she wrote so she felt very frustrated. She went to talk to the teacher and he said that he graded her on the writing not the pages. Another example would be when her sister was supposed to take care of Cassie's brother but her sister never came home so Cassie had to take care of him. At that point Cassie was really mad at her sister, it had been her job to take care of her brother! This book made me insane because I couldn't put it down! I would give it four stars out of five.

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We all feel like our own life is the most hectic, the busiest, and more demanding than anyone else's. That sometimes we are too busy with school and work that we hardly have time for ourselves. Unfortunately for Cassie, not only is her life hectic, but it is totally insane.

At the age of eleven, Cassie's parents decided to get a divorce and her father up and left. Usually, one of the parents gets to keep the lavish house that they all once lived in as a happy family, but no one ended up keeping the house. Instead, Cassie and her mom and two siblings all move into a run-down apartment, selling the car and the house. Now Cassie has to manage everything, especially since her mother is always working late, her older sister is forgetting to get the groceries or is always on the phone, and her little brother is just crying out for some attention.

It's not only home that's changing for Cassie. The two people she thought were her best friends seem to be turning on her, and at school her favorite subject is turning out to be a pain, all because of her teacher, Mr. Mullaney. Fortunately one good thing that comes out of that class is getting to write in a journal about anything she wants. That's where her imagination gets to thrive and Cassie finds peace. Let's just hope that Cassie can find a way to manage her new insane life.

JUST ANOTHER DAY IN MY INSANELY REAL LIFE is insanely hilarious. Cassie is that one character that every person is able to connect with, especially since most of us do have obnoxious siblings. The perfect read for anyone down in the dumps, Barbara Dee creates a cast of characters, along with the many excerpts from Cassie's journal, that will put a smile on everyone's face.

Reviewed by: Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen

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A Great Read for Girls (and for the rest of us, too)

There are kids' books I've read as an adult that I've liked but am pretty sure I wouldn't have liked when I was ten or eleven. Then there are kids books that I like and I know I would have devoured when I was eleven. This is one of them.

Before her father left, Cassie's family lived in a nice house, Cassie was on the swim team, had two best friends and the life of your average middle class, middle school kid. But now Cassie lives in an apartment with her mom (who works all the time), her older sister (Miranda, who never does what she promises she's going to do--like buy groceries), and her younger brother, Jackson, who Cassie's concerned has a learning disability. Add to that the fact her supposed best friends act like she's no longer good enough for them to hang out with. Fun life, right?

This could be a depressing book, but it's not. In fact, for a book that deals with some serious stuff, it's pretty dang funny. For instance, after Cassie becomes convinced her teacher isn't bothering to read the journals he requires his class to write, she starts writing all kinds of crazy, silly stuff that cracked me up and will crack kids up, too.

Though it takes a little while, Cassie starts finding her way. Sure, she messes up a lot, she makes mistakes, she thinks she knows what's going on, but she doesn't always (she's all wrong when it comes to her English teacher, for instance). But she figures things out, too: like who she can trust, and who her real friends are. A definite good read, with fully developed characters and realistic situations. Highly recommended.

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Mustard. A charity orange. Five apples. A half-gone pint of charity cream cheese. A half-gone gallon of milk. An open can of Friskies. And a half-gone liter of Diet Coke.

That's all the food in the house when Cassie's sister, Miranda, forgets to do the shopping. It's just the latest crisis in Cassie's life since her father moved out and her mother went back to work, and Cassie feels totally responsible for keeping things together for her little brother.

And things aren't any better at school. Cassie's grades are plummeting, her best friends have turned nasty, she's getting mixed signals from a cute boy, and then there's Mr. Mullaney -- the weirdest, hardest English teacher in the seventh grade -- who hates everything she does. Cassie's sassy humor has seen her through in the past, but it doesn't seem to be helping her now. What's a girl to do when life gets totally insane?

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