Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

I don't know what to say because it was so great. Me and my daughter loved the book. I can not wait until I get the next book!

I really like Sheila. The story is a sweet coming of age story. Removed from her home in New York to Tarrytown for the summer, Sheila finds friends and works through the defenses she has built. It's extremely well done and touching.

well, it's ok

The game slam book is so much fun in the book please make this into movie I would totally watch it Shelia and mouse were good friends and Jane and sandra were funny twins libby and her boy drama makes me laugh so hard I also liked the part when Sandra got stuck in the milk door to funny To me at least when Mouse tell Sheila if someone is afraid they should just say it like my mom says yo me Tarrytown was never ready Shelia The Great but seriously slam book if I ever have a sleepover I'll record me and my friends playing it and put it on YouTube. Marty is a good friend and teacher Setting:Tarrytown

I just bought this book on Kindle and re-read it fojr the first time since I was about ten. I forgot how much I liked it. This book is adorable, but also very real. Blume always does such a great job at pulling you into the intimate personal lives of all of her characters-- and this novel is no exception. As much as I love the entire "Fudge" series, I wish that Judy would have written more books from Sheia Tubman's perspective. In the books written from Peter Hatcher's perspective, Sheila is portrayed as a snooty, annoying twit living near the Hatchers. She has no real identity in these books beyond Peter's antagonizer. However, in 'Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great,' she is a normal preteen girl who fights with her older sister and faces her very real fears of swimming and sleeping alone at night. She isn't the jerk that Peter Hatcher makes her out to be; she's just like any other girl you'd meet in junior high. One thing that I truly appreciated with this book is that instead of focusing on relationships with younger siblings, this book speaks to those of us (including myself) who are the youngest. Sheila's fighs with her older sister Libby are almost identical to the ones I used to have with my own older sister at that age. I couldn't help but smile at the obvious sibling rivalry that peppered this novel. Some things never change!

I LIKE the BOOK. I LIKE Judy Blume.

I remembered liking this book as a kid, so I got it for my daughter, since it's the 2nd book in the Fudge series (after Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, which she'd just read). She liked it. I found myself reading it while waiting for her at swim practice, and re-appreciating the way that Judy Blume gets in the mind of kids, telling you with humor what they are thinking without telling you outright. I'd forgotten how masterful she is, and why I loved her books so as a kid. This book reminded me. Sheila acting as if Peter's dog is disgusting and shouldn't be in the elevator (because she's afraid of dogs), telling her friend her mother won't let her go swimming (because she can't swim-- as is immediately apparent when her mother mortifies her by telling her it's time for her swim lesson) . . . It all takes you back to that time in your life. Blume is the queen.

it's a good read for kids. I downloaded this because it's the sequel to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Not quite as captivating as the first book... but good.