About this title: When her father begins a long-distance romance with a zookeeper in Washington, D.C., 12-year-old Frankie sends fabricated e-mail letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship, in this story about family, friendship, and growing up.
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Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780439865913ISBN:0439865913
Description: Acceptable. Well used. Still readable but not for the collector. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Description: Good. 0823419274 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. 0823419274 Nice looking Ex-Library book with stickers and stampings. Has clean text and good binding. Hawaii and Alaska residents are encouraged to use pri or itymail. read more
Description: Fair. 0823419274 Ex-Library book with stickers and stampings. Has clean text and good binding. Rippled pages from water warpage. Hawaii and Alaska residents are encouraged to use pri or itymail. read more
Description: Good. 0823419274 Nice looking Ex-Library book with stickers and stampings. Has clean text and good binding. Edges lightly soiled from use. Last blank page is partly torn out. Hawaii and Alaska residents are encouraged to use pri or itymail. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780439862318ISBN:0439862310
Description: Good. Some cover wear, but especially to the bottom of spine; pages clean. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holiday House
Date Published: 2005-04
ISBN-13:9780823419272ISBN:0823419274
Description: Good. A former library book in protective mylar cover with the usual library markings. (Even though we list all former library books as only good, most are Good+ or VG condition! ) No writing or highlighting noted inside. Good Binding. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holiday House
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780823420988ISBN:0823420981
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"Frankie finds out that her widowed father is developing a long-distance relationship with a zookeeper. The story, told through diary entries and email messages, focuses on Frankie's attempts to thwart the budding romance. Frankie's efforts are tiresome to read about (she starts lying, getting into trouble at school, neglecting her responsibilities at home, bottling her feelings, and alienating her friends), but they ultimately create a realistic intimacy and empathy for her character. Frankie and her father eventually learn to be more honest, to better communicate, and to trust each other in this heart-felt novel. Ages 10+."
""The Naked Mole Rat Letters" is a very interesting and exciting book. This book is about a girl named Frankie she lives with her dad and her two little brothers. The problem starts when she finds a note in her dad's email; it was from a woman named Ayanna. The letter said that she had a wonderful dinner that night and that she specially loved the kiss.
Then she remembered the day when her father told her and her brothers that he was going to a conference in Washington D.C. Then she realizes that Ayanna lives in Washington D.C. She got really mad because her father had never lied to her and he only lied because of Ayanna. Another example, he also lied about a chair that he was making. Frankie once found a chair in the basement and when she asked him who that chair was for he said that the chair was for nobody special.
From that they on she began getting low grades and she behaved bad at school and she began writing letters to Ayanna making her believe that it was her dad. For example, in math she was an A+ student, from that moment on she began getting C's. Another example is when she ripped her library book and then she didn't pay for it. She wrote a letter to Ayanna saying that her dad was getting married. She began doing these things because her mother died when she was still little and she didn't want anybody to replace her mom.
This book thought me a lesson. The lesson that this book thought me was that you should always tell the truth about everything. Sometimes is hard to admit something, but if you don't then you'll lie forever. Also because when you lie everybody around you gets affected even you family!
"Frankie has just hit adolescence, and oh what a rocky road her teenage years look like they will be!
The author hits all her notes pitch perfect as she shows a girl struggling with the transition of going from child to teenager, learning to take responsibility for her actions, learning not to judge other people too quickly, and, most importantly, learning that its not always just about her, while keeping the reader laughing through out most of it.
There is some heavy bathos near the end as the whole family comes together for a little grieving over the mom who died a few years prior, but most of the book is straight up comedy. It seemed a little too easy to trot out the 'dead mother' trope, but... well, the book is well written.
The writing style is a combination of Frankie's journal entereites, and a series of emails between her and her father's potential girlfriend.
The journal entries stretch credibility just a little bit that they would be so well written, exact, and through, but they manage to work, especially since Frankie's voice comes through very well.
The emails are hilarious as Frankie does everything she can think of to try and scare the woman off, and yet, despite everything she says, ends up becoming friends with her, mostly because the woman, Annaya Bayo, the geeky zookeeper, is made of awesome."
"Frankie sees an email that her widowed father has written to a women that he met at a conference in Washington, D.C. She is horrified and worried that this woman will take her mother's place. She tries very hard to get rid of Ayana, the rat lady by emailing her terrible things about her father and family. Frankie has always been a good student, but now she is has taken to telling lies and skipping school. Although I can understand that Frankie is upset about her father meeting this woman, her quick path from model daughter to juvenile delinquent seems a bit overdone. The story does a good job about teaching acceptance, the perils of lying, and being true to yourself."
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