Ernestine  Amanda, Sandra Belton
Ernestine  Amanda, Sandra Belton
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Ernestine & Amanda

Author: Sandra Belton

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Unabridged: 3 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/25/2012

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

Ernestine is too fat and acts like she can play the piano better than anyone—at least that's what Amanda thinks.

Amanda is stuck-up and has a big mouth—Ernestine knows that's true.

And to top it all off, Ernestine has stolen Amanda's best friend. There's no way Ernestine and Amanda will ever be friends. No way.

Music lessons, church, the Delta Sigma Theta Jabberwock, a party, a piano competition, and the truly gross fact that Ernestine's brother is dating Amanda's sister keep bringing the two girls together. And somehow they don't end up hating each other as much as they expected.
As they go through fifth grade, Ernestine and Amanda find out more and more about each other, and about themselves. They're not friends. But they're not quite enemies either. They're something in-between, and they are growing up together.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krystle

This book seemed very promising. The dialogue in chapter one was short and snappy, the summary on the back of the book was great! Buuut...it seemed like the author just gave up at the end of the book and just slapped in an ending chapter. What was the point of the Thanksgiving dinner? She could have......more

gr 4-6 150 pgs 1950s Mostly a story about two girls, Amanda and Ernestine, who start out as enemies and discover that they have more in common then they realized. Mostly a friendship story with some historical details.......more