Ava and Pip

Absolutely one of the best middle-grades reads of the year! As an elementary school librarian, I'll be buying a class set of these for a teacher who wants to add something "new" to his curriculum... And here's why: -The story is engaging. I have no doubt that students will relate to the characters an......more

The book Ava and Pip is about Pip the older sister who doesn't have much social life, and Ava who is the younger sister and has a bunch of friends, and writes it all in her diary. Ava is worried about Pip because she hasn't been very social. Pip has her birthday party coming up, but a new girl named......more

What this book is about: Ava is outgoing with lots of friends. Her older sister Pip is so shy she eats alone every day at school. Ava worries about Pip, and when Pip’s birthday party is ruined when one of the popular girls (Bea) plans a party on the same day, Ava vents by writing a story about the Q......more

Ava, a feisty 10 year old and aspiring young writer, knows that she comes from a family of word nerds. She and her sister Pip were both specifically given palindrome names, and the entire family loves to play games of naming alternating palindromes. Despite all of the word game fun, Ava remains pret......more

This was a very wholesome, instructive, and clever book. Even though the story is told through the journal entries of the outgoing 10 year old Ava, the plot revolves around Ava's painfully shy sister Pip. Ava is so protective of Pip, that she ends up writing a thinly veiled revenge story about Pip's......more