Boggess, Eileen. Mia the Meek.BOGGESS, Eileen. Mia the Meek. (The Mia Fullerton Series.) Bancroft Press. 155p. c2006. 1-890862-46-0. $16.95. J Boggess has experience teaching middle school students at a Catholic school in the Midwest (the setting for the Mia series). Her heroine Mia is smart and shy, a girl who is hoping she can have a personality makeover as she starts high school--exuding more confidence--no longer Mia the Meek. Her friends "help" her, nominating her for class president. And she wins! She is on the team to compete in the Academic Quiz Bowl (her strength is literature, her weakness is math). She starts dating Jake, whom she has admired for years; yet her aversion/attraction for the new boy in town, Tim, who moved in next door, is confusing. This is basically a funny story, in a screwball screw·ball n. 1. Baseball A pitched ball that curves in the direction opposite to that of a normal curve ball. 2. Slang An eccentric, impulsively whimsical, or irrational person. adj. comedy kind of way. All the worst kinds of embarrassing moments happen to Mia. For instance, because of the small school she must have her own mother as her English teacher, and on the first day her mother launches into the story she always tells about the power of books by describing how her daughter Mia was so taken by the book Petey and the Potty, it helped her get toilet trained. Only this year, Mia is one of the students hearing this story, aghast. Other humor is also kind of earthy earth·y adj. earth·i·er, earth·i·est 1. Of, consisting of, or resembling earth: an earthy smell. 2. Of or characteristic of this world; worldly. 3. , about Mia's horrible retainer A contract between attorney and client specifying the nature of the services to be rendered and the cost of the services. Retainer also denotes the fee that the client pays when employing an attorney to act on her behalf. flying out of her mouth into the cafeteria garbage, about vomiting vomiting, ejection of food and other matter from the stomach through the mouth, often preceded by nausea. The process is initiated by stimulation of the vomiting center of the brain by nerve impulses from the gastrointestinal tract or other part of the body. at just the wrong moment, of having to pee pee Vox populi Micturate, urinate when stuck in her Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Fr. Jeanne D'Arc (zhän därk), 1412?–31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans; daughter of a farmer of Domrémy on the border of Champagne and Lorraine. armor before a class presentation. However, Mia has two cute boys interested in her, and she is the class president, after all, so things are going well for her when all is said and done. Girls will enjoy the humor. And it is a relief to have a smart heroine who is also unsophisticated, just as a balance to the numerous chick lit "Chick lit" is a term used to denote genre fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women in their twenties and thirties. The genre's creation was spurred on, if not exactly created, by Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole diaries which inspired Adele books about rich prep-school girls. Claire Rosser, KLIATT J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. |
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