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    The Talented Clementine
    The Talented Clementine
    The Talented Clementine
    Audiobook1 hour

    The Talented Clementine

    Written by Sara Pennypacker

    Narrated by Jessica Almasy

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In this sequel to Sara Pennypacker's acclaimed Clementine, the precocious third grader's class teams with the fourth graders to put on a talent show. The only problem is Clementine doesn't have any talents. Meanwhile her best friend Margaret has so many she has to keep track of them alphabetically. Soon the big night arrives and Clementine has nothing to perform. But she has a hidden skill that will save the show from certain disaster. "Libraries will need multiple copies of this one, because early chapter-book readers will jump at the chance to spend another eventful week with Clementine." -School Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 8, 2008
    ISBN9781449802479
    The Talented Clementine
    Author

    Sara Pennypacker

    Sara Pennypacker is the author of the New York Times bestselling Pax and Pax, Journey Home; the award-winning Clementine series and its spinoff series, Waylon; and the acclaimed novels Summer of the Gypsy Moths and Here in the Real World. She divides her time between Cape Cod, MA, and Florida. You can visit her online at sarapennypacker.com.

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    • 1/5
      i hated it>:( it is bad i mean it's a good book just not listening
    • 5/5
      I think she has adhd ngl or autism but anyways this was a great book
    • 4/5
      Clementine is faced with a talent show. I'm not a fan of the "talent show" genre of kids' books, but I like all the Clementine books I've read, so I'll give this one a thumbs-up too.
    • 4/5
      This one was just a teeny bit sappy & cliched. Still wonderful. Oh I hope there are more and more and somehow the author keeps up the good work. Tell the illustrator that the 2-page spreads in which our little darling communicates with Mrs. Rice (the principal to everyone else, but a favorite counselor/ auntie to C.) are a must for every book in the series.
    • 4/5
      Clementine is faced with a talent show. I'm not a fan of the "talent show" genre of kids' books, but I like all the Clementine books I've read, so I'll give this one a thumbs-up too.
    • 4/5
      Charming girl without performing arts talent still comes in handy during the production of the talent show.
    • 4/5
      The Talented Clementineby Sara Pennypacker is the second in the series. The third and fourth graders will be performing a talent show and Clementine is at a complete loss. I can completely relate — while I have talents, none of them are geared towards live performance!Clementine goes through all sorts of different ideas for the show. None of them really are appropriate for a talent show. Ultimately she settles on working back stage, but it's a job she falls into.It was another cute book. I really felt horrible for Clementine as her teacher just couldn't believe she didn't know how to perform on stage. Been there myself in school.
    • 4/5
      Haha, so charming! I laughed out loud more than once. Loved the illustrations too, especially the principal. :-)
    • 4/5
      Clementine is a spunky third grade girl. She also knows how to be funny and sarcastic. The talent show is coming up for the third grade and fourth grade, but Clementine has no idea what her talent is! She begins to think that she may not even have a talent. She can't play an instrument, tell jokes, or sing. Clementine becomes desperate for any sort of talent act for the talent show. Clementine writes in a journal throughout her story. She learns some important lessons along the way, and she surprised even herself with her talent show act! This text is an easy read that many students can relate to. I believe that students in grades 3-5 would find this book very enjoyable, and accessible. Advanced readers from younger grades might also enjoy this story. I would use this book to help teach students about journaling and writing in journals. As a class, we would talk about what sort of things Clementine writes in her journal. After creating a list of things that can be written in a journal, the students would create a list of what things from their own lives they'd want to write about in a journal. For a week, the students would have to write in their own journals about what is happening in their daily lives, and how they are feeling. At the end of the week the students would reflect on what they have written in their journals. Students enjoy this book because it is relatable, and humorous.
    • 5/5
      The second-grade fund-raising talent show is coming up and Clementine has no talents! Her neighbor, Margaret, has so many she has to alphabetize them to remember them all and Clementine's dad (who suggests Clementine trim ivy on stage) is no help either! Will Clementine have to move to Egypt to avoid being embarrassed at the show? Sara Pennypacker's clever and hilarious "The Talented Clementine" (2007) won several Best Book of the Year awards and the National Parenting Publication Gold Award for its endearing female protagonist who always asks the most interesting questions and who sends herself to the principal’s office. The 138-pages transitional chapter book will have readers rolling in the aisles at Clementine's witty, truthful observations when cleaning up; "I learned that coffee is easier to clean up when you spill it on a new brown rug. You hardly have to touch it at all!" and when getting ready for school, "Which reminded me to crawl under the bus seat to get all [my paper] before we got to school. This is called Being Organized." Playfully illustrated in black and white, Marla Frazee's drawings show readers a button-eyed, bewildered Clementine, doing what she does best - being herself. Parents and teachers will love the suspenseful build-up that keeps their readers interested through this page-turner and readers will fall in love with Clementine, who, like them, is just trying to get through the school day in one piece! Recommended for ages 7-8.
    • 5/5
      If you enjoy Junie B. you will also like Clementine. A fun read!
    • 4/5
      I love Clementine. She's so fun to read, often making the boys and me laugh out loud as we read. This story is how Clementine, a highly-distractable, highly-intelligent girl, can't think of a talent for the school talent show. Her search for talents made my boys think about their own talents which led to some nice conversations. I love Sara PennyPacker, she is an excellent author that portrays her children characters so accurately.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoy the Clementine books. Clementine is utterly charming, as is her family, who dearly love her despite being somewhat frustrated by her.Clementine's talent for noticing things (easily distracted, she gets sent to the principal's office multiple times in the first book in the series) comes in handy for the school's talent show.Her dismay over being unable to find a "normal" talent is very realistic, as are the reactions of her friends and family (surely you can think of something to do?!), and makes the final chapter all the sweeter.A funny, delightful read - highly recommended!
    • 4/5
      Susan says: This second book about Clementine in the third grade is just as sweet as the first. Clementine's teacher tells them all that the third and fourth grades are having a talent show to raise money for the school. This sends Clementine into a panic because she does not believe she has any talent. Adults or older readers can see that she has many talents, but she's focused on tap dance and singing. Finally the day of the talent show arrives, and she ends up becoming the director of the talent show, and does a great job. This would be a good book for chick lit, since it is fairly short, and even older girls would get something out of it. Clementine is funny, interesting and a real character. I'll keep reading in this series of short chapter books.
    • 5/5
      Despite being nothing at all like the Ramona Quimby books, they still remind me a LOT of them. In this edition, Clementine is left scrambling for an act for the talent show. She has, she says, NO talents. Not even hopping. No, really, at 8 years old she still can't hop, poor child. And no doubt it doesn't help that her "perfect" upstairs neighbor and friend has more talents than she can count.After rejecting tap-dancing (apparently, beer caps do NOT make acceptable taps when superglued to sneakers), moving to Egypt, and hiring a substitute, Clementine hits upon the perfect talent - leash her brother and perform Elvis! (It makes sense... sorta.) Unfortunately, her father nixes this idea and she ends up at rehearsal with nothing to do.Fortunately, her ability to notice everything but what she's supposed to pay attention to keeps her occupied instead of moping - and she ends up applauded as the last-minute stage manager, a believable and in-character happy ending. There were two false notes for me, both related to the tap shoes. First, when Clementine goes to buy new sneakers to replace the ones she ruined, her parents stage a big fight over who gets to take her (her father eventually bribes her mother with new shoes for herself AND a trip out to dinner at the Ritz) because she's a pain to shop with and insists on trying every pair of shoe so she can "not-choose" them before she chooses the ones she picked at the beginning. Reading about Clementine promising to "be normal" and not act like that... well, it breaks my heart, it does, and it seems out of character for her parents who typically seem pretty understanding of their daughter (not that they're overindulgent, just that they try to understand her). Secondly, at the end of the talent show they invite her to go to dinner at the Ritz with them, saying "we wouldn't even be going out if it weren't for you". To me, this reads as though they're rewarding her for ruining her shoes because they're only going out as the bribe for buying her new ones! It would have been better to say they're taking her to dinner to celebrate her starring backstage role in the talent show, I think.Still, the rest of the book is wonderful. And, as I said in the first book, I love how the author writes the sibling relationship. You *know* your sister loves you when she writes "NO NUTS FOR ME!" on your head before she feels safe leaving you in care of the babysitter.
    • 3/5
      In this entry into the Clementine series, her class is holding a talent show. Clementine's very worried that she doesn't have a proper talent to demonstrate. I find the storyline somewhat contrived and problematic since it's perfectly obvious that Clementine has many demonstrable talents (art for one), especially in light of what the other student's talents are: doing cartwheels, giving fashion advice, etc. It's not like she has to play Beethoven's Ninth, here. I also find it out of character that Clementine becomes this hyper-organized stage manager since her character so far in the series has been shown to be relatively self-involved and not always aware of other people's actions/reactions (i.e. the pigeon party from the previous book, Clementine). That said, she's still enjoyable as a character and I think kids will really like her and relate to her insecurities.
    • 5/5
      Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.
    • 5/5
      Third grader (and Ramona throne usurper) is baaack!! Thankfully! (This is one "series" I will whole-heartedly recommend to kids!!)This time, Clementine's class is doing a talent show... but Clementine doesn't think she has any talents to show. Will she find out what hers is? Of course! It's a kids book! ;) But the hilarious-ness is how she gets there! One example... she thinks she can tap dance but has no shoes, so she opens up 24 bottles to take the caps and superglue them to her sneakers! (Followed by a hilarious conversation between her parents as to who has to take her shoe shopping to replace the ruined pair!) This character is so real she makes me laugh out loud
    • 5/5
      Clementine is worried because her class is doing a talent show and Clementine can't think of anything she can do for it. It's a laugh-out-loud romp as Clementine tries to think of an act, even resorting to asking That Margaret for help. Highly recommended for fans of Ramona Quimby and Junie B. Jones.
    • 5/5
      Even funnier than the first one. I can't wait to see what Clementine does next!