Karen's Stepmother

by Ann M. Martin

Book Overview

Now that their new custody arrangement has them spending every other month at their father's house, Karen and Andrew are having a hard time getting used to their stepmother Elizabeth. Baby-Sitters... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590470477
• ISBN13: 9780590470476
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Karen can be such a whiney, little brat!

I read that book when I was in second grade, and I thought it was a good book. Karen is adjusting to spending more time with her dad and stepmother. Plus new rules. I thought Karen was acting like a whiney selfish brat. I thought her stepmom was fair with her chores assignments and consequences if they werent done. Karen kept forgeting to clean her room and seperating the recycled stuff.Plus she talks too loud and too much and interuppts a lot. So her stepmom, Elizabeth takes her allowance away and Karen is mad. Mother's Day is coming up and Karen only made gifts for Nannie(her stepgrandma and her mother) But she didnt give her present to Elizabeth since she was mad. I thought Karen treated her pretty badly on Mother's day. She was mad that she didnt get to spend the day with her real mom, although she spent Saturday with her mom. Karen tried to ruin mother's day for her stepmother but they had a long talk and they make up. Karen learns about responsibility and chores and finally starts doing them and recieving her allowance. I like the part when she was in a soapbox car race with her brother against the neighborhood kids.

A good book!

I'm already ten and so I read the Baby-Sitters Club or BSC Friends Forever Series. But I read this series when I was younger and really enjoyed this series. This book helps divorced parents understand how their children feel how it is to have to be seperated and be caught in the middle. This is the why I like this book.Karen and Andrew are staying at their daddy's house for the month of May. At school, Karen is getting ready for Mother's Day and preparing for her gifts for her mother, her stepgrandmother, Nannie, and her stepmother, Elizabeth. Even at her father's house everyone is getting prepared by giving Nannie and Elizabeth breakfast in bed. But Elizabeth hass new rules at the big house:Everyone has to do chores in order to get their allowance each week. Karen tries to follow these rules. But each week, she loses her allowance because she either forgets to do her chores or is very busy to do them. So Karen hates her stepmother. But then, something changes, and suddenly Karen is doing all her chores. A very good book for childrens 6-8.