Snail Mail No More by Danziger/Martin

Recommended for Grade 5

(Page last edited 10/09/2017)

• Title: Snail Mail No More
• Author: Danziger/Martin
• ISBN: 0439063361
• ISBN 13: 978-0439063364

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Elizabeth and Tara*Starr are nothing alike. But despite their differences and the distance that separates them, they still communicate regularly, now via email. Will they be able to help each other through the difficulties that face them‹a new sibling and an alcoholic father? Or will their differences finally cause them to drift apart?

Review (From Amazon.Com):

Tara*Starr and Elizabeth finally have e-mail and they are sooooooo excited. After a year of snail mail following Tara*Starr's move to Ohio (chronicled in P.S. Longer Letter Later), the long-distance friends are ready for the more immediate gratification of e-mail. Eighth grade turns out to be as intense as seventh, with still more challenges to the best friends' relationship, including new local friendships for each, a baby sibling on the way for Tara*Starr, devastating drama from Elizabeth's alcoholic and absent father, and ever-broadening horizons for both teens.

Two terrifically popular authors, Paula Danziger (The Cat Ate My Gymsuit) and Ann M. Martin (The Baby-Sitters Club series), make a wildly contrasting yet compatible team, as reflected in Martin's reserved and introspective Elizabeth, and Danziger's exuberantly hyperbolical Tara*Starr. Honest and unpredictable, and oh-so-current, the book addresses many of the issues that plague and perplex teenagers today: dating, drinking, friendships, changing relationships with parents, divorce, even death. Impossible to put down, this novel in e-mail messages is every bit as warm, complex, profound, and moving as the authors' first team effort. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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