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Title: Jennifer Hecate Macb by E.L. Konigsburg ISBN: 0440741629 Publisher: Yearling Pub. Date: August, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.25

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Rating: 5
Summary: A TREASURE OF WONDERFUL MEMORIES! I STILL LOVE IT!
Comment: I got this book when I was 8 and it reamins a favorite to this day. In it I found a sympathetic character in Elizabeth, the protagonist of this story. I could well sympathize with her inability to make friends easily (I have that same challenge) and agonizing over her small stature. I had the opposite problem -- I always thought I was abnormally tall until I reached my maximum height of 5'4" which is NOT tall for any adult!

When Elizabeth meets Jennifer, a schoolmate, theirs is an interesting coming together. I think the whole "witchcraft" thing was to a larage extent childhood wishful thinking and play acting and the natual desire to be distinguished among one's peers. I loved this book and delighted in the antics of the two girls.

Elizabeth's nemesis, the phony, duplicitious Cynthia is easily recognizable. I had to endure my share of "Cynthias" growing up and I can remember thinking how laughably clueless adults were to the phony, smarmy charm such creeps like Cynthia oozed. I thought it was mean of Elizabeth's mother to make her attend Cynthia's birthday party and to keep singing Cynthia's praises to her. That hurt Elizabeth's self-esteem. I could relate to that because my mother constantly sang the praises of other people's children to me. I would tell her, "She's/they're just pretending to be nice because YOU'RE here. I can't just walk up to kids and make instant friends." It was only after I had become an adult myself that I realized that my mother and her peers were not as susceptible to the smarmy Cynthias as I had been led to believe. It was in recent years that she told me she knew the "Cynthias" true colors all along and was "friendly to them in the hopes they'd be nicer" to me whether she was present or not. How wonderful it would have been had she told me that then! I would have then seen her as an ally instead of as being easily duped by other people's children. This book is an eye opener for all ages.

I still laugh uproariously when Elizabeth ate an onion for an entire week per Jennifer's instructions. Her bizarre eating habits paid dividends -- I loved it when her onion breath scared nasty Cynthia off the stage during a school play. I also loved the way she fixed Cynthia's wagon by challenging her phony charm at her own birthday party. Each time Cynthia "oohed and aaahed" over each gift and asked who it was from, Elizabeth would call out the name of the giver, thus spoiling Cynthia's fun. I CHEERED when Elizabeth stepped on nasty Cynthia' foot when she left the party because the latter stuck her tongue out at her. I remember at 8 thinking, "You don't need Cynthia. One of these days she'll get it." Many years later, I wanted to say, "Just remember, there is life after elementary school. Creeps like Cynthia may have one a battle or two, but they won't win the war. I hope you see creepy Cynthia fall on her phony face."

It is a delightful treasure trove of memories that is well worth reading at any age. I still love it and have my original hard back cover that I got when I was eight.