Synopsis
Raisin on boys: I can’t believe Jeremy hasn’t figured out yet that cottage cheese is just milk nobody wanted. I was dying to tell him this, but sometimes you have to let people learn from their mistakes.
Raisin on beauty: You know how they tell you to break open a vitamin A pill and spread it on your imperfections? I highly disrecommend it—I tried it last night, and now I smell like cod.
Raisin on philosophy: Life is full of little lessons. For example, today I learned that when mothers say things like “today will be better than yesterday,” they don’t necessarily know what they’re talking about.
Raising Rodriguez has just been dragged from Berkeley, California, all the way to Philadelphia. Now she has to start a new school, make all new friends, and adjust to living with her brand new stepfamily and their kooky dog. Luckily she can always vent to her two best friends from home in her secret blog. She’s telling them all her most personal and private secrets (not to mention some other people’s secrets). After all, it’s not like anyone else will ever read it . . . right?
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About the Author
Judy Goldschmidt lives in New York City.
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8–The front copy promises "fits of uncontrollable laughter," but this chick-lit entry fails to deliver. Moving from California to Philadelphia and entering seventh grade in a new school, Raisin deplores the results of her mother's marriage to "Horse Ass," or Horace. She admires people for their looks and clothes, fails to appreciate her only acquaintance as a patient prince of a guy, and generally displays every obnoxious middle school characteristic imaginable. Recounting events through the blog to her buddies back home in Berkeley, Raisin details every embarrassing and thoughtless idea she has ever had, specializing in a long description of her travails on the arrival of her first period. This is actually the best part of the book, and updates "that Margaret person" whom Raisin thinks was nuts to actually look forward to this event. The inevitable denouement when everyone reads her entire blog is not surprising; nor is the fact that Raisin learns very little from the whole experience. There are better, funnier, and more realistic tales about adjusting to a new life after a parent's divorce. Shallow, very shallow.–Carol A. Edwards, Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, CO
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