Children's fiction; chick lit for girl tweens. Eleven-year old Annabelle has just moved and has trouble with the boys at her new school. They kick her chair, steal her homework, and won't stop calling her 'spaz.' One day it occurs to her that the same techniques she uses to train her new puppy also work on boys--sort of. A very enjoyable read that tween girls will likely identify with. ( )

I loved this story about a girl who is thrown into a lot of new situations and how she deals with them. She is just starting 6th grade and is discovering boys. She coincides training her new puppy with training a boy which I thought would not make sense but it kind of does. This book is a good example of a strong, smart female role model. ( )

This book is about a girl going in the 6th grade and transferring into a Public School when shes been at a private school her whole life. She gets a new puppy and has to train him. When she discovers that boys act just like dog's. ( )

good book ( )

When her mother gets a new boyfriend, sixth-grader Annabelle gets to cope with a new town, a new school, and a new puppy and, while training her puppy, she decides to apply some of the same techniques to tame the unruly boys that are making her middle-school life miserable. ( )