My Worst Friend

by Meredith Johnson and P.J. Petersen

This young school-based novel by a popular author centers on the rocky relationship between two girls who really should be good friends--but just aren't. Jenny has been wary of Sara since the first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525460284
• ISBN13: 9780525460282
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

My worst friend

My Worst Friend by P.J Peterson is an excellent book for kids between the ages of 9-12 years of age. Sara and Jennifer are worst enemies. They don't get a long anywhere, including school. All they do is insult each other by name calling. Jenny's teacher tells the news about Sara that she is in the hospital, with a tumor in her head. While Sara is sick in hospital Jenny visits her. Since Sara had lost her hair, Jenny did not even want to look at her head. The 6th grade class had made a banner which Sara thought it was a 2 minute project on the computer. When Jenny goes to school the next day she starts to lie about what Jenny said about the banners the 6th grade had made. But, still Sara has changed with her face all pale, but definatly not her attitude. When Sara comes back almost everyone wanted to feel her head, and one asked is it itches! I would recomend this book to anyone I know. It very well written, and funny.

This book tells and good story and leaves a good messsage.

P. J. Peterson's My Worst Friend is both written well and entertaining. In addition, it carries a message about what friendship is and the different ways in which friendship can be shown.Sara and Jenny seem to be the opposite of friends. They constantly call each other names and insult each other, but when Sara becomes critically ill, Jenny shows what it means, not only to be a friend, but what it means to be a truly caring person. In doing so, she learns something about one thing a person with a life-threatening illness needs above all: to be treated as a normal person, not pitied as some poor little sick thing. The highlight of the book comes when Jenny and Sara find themselves as competitors even though Sara is still sick. How do you compete with someone who's ill without either running over her roughshod or offending her?This book can provide an important way for youngsters to understand how their actions and words affect other people. It can also help them understand how to deal with someone who is different. Most of all, My Worst Friend is a good story, one that children 9 through 12 can relate to in their own lives.