Nikki and Deja: Birthday Blues: Nikki and Deja, Book Two

by Karen English

Book Overview

The second popular book about Nikki and Deja, two third-grade girls who are best friends.

Deja's birthday is coming up, and she's been talking about it for weeks. But just before the big day, Auntie Dee gets called away on a business trip and Deja must stay with an elderly neighbor . . . who cooks turnips for dinner and doesn't even have a color TV!

Worse, the machinations of spoiled Antonia, Deja's new nemesis, threaten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547248938
• ISBN13: 9780547248936
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Great insight into how young girls think

My daughter (7) devours chapter books. There are some, however that we keep for our special before-bed reading. We bought this book and Nikki & Deja together. We read Nikki and Deja first, and we loved it. This book was equally good. The themes of friendship, missing parents, and good old "doing the right thing" are handled in a completely age-appropriate way. The young reader is left with an optimistic feeling despite the ommission of a fairy tale ending. The lesson in this particular story was that things can still be great even if they don't go as expected. My daughter and I both can't wait for the next Nikki & Deja book to be released.