Dear Pen Pal (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Emma: Member of the Mother Daughter Book Club. Loves books and has recently started figure skating.
• Cassidy: Member of the Mother Daughter Book Club. Loves all kinds of sports and is in boy's hockey.
• Megan: Member of the Mother Daughter Book Club. Loves fashion and loves to design clothes.
• Becca: New Member of the Mother Daughter Book Club. Is a fashion girl and can be mean.
• Savannah: A stuck up mean senators daughter.
• Zoe: Becca's Pen Pal from Wyoming, mayor's daughter.
• Winky (AKA Wilhemina): Cassidy's pen pal from Wyoming, her family owns a guest ranch.
• Madison: Jess's pen pal from Wyoming, her mom is an art history professor.
• Bailey: Emma's pen pal from Wyoming, her mom owns a book store.
• Summer: Megan's pen pal from Wyoming, her mom owns a cafe.
• Gigi: Megans grandmother from hong kong that is staying with them, She cooks and wants to take megan to paris, she does not get along very well with megans parents
• Mrs. Chadwick: In this book, she thought of doing a whole new me scene, and she dresses up crazy. Her kids are Stewart and Rebecca.
• Stewart: Emmas boyfriend
• Emma Hawthorne: Emma is a book loving writer who puts the book in bookclub.
• Mrs. Bergson: Ice skating teacher of Emmas and Stewarts
• Megan Wong: Megan is a fashion loving girl and is a member of the book club.
• Cassidy: Cassidy is the tomboy and loves sports of all kind and is also a member of the bookclub.
• Jess Delaney: Jess is very smart and loves to sing. she also is a member of the book club.
• Mrs. Wong: Add a description of this character.
• Mrs. Parker
• Mrs. Crandall
• Pete
• Mr. Keller
• Mrs. Hanford
• Jean Webster
• Daddy-long-legs
• Kevin Mullins
• Zach Norton
• Dr. Weisman
• Mrs. Sinclair
• Maggie
• Eva Bergson
• Stanley Kinkaid
• Ashley
• Ms. Nielson
• Owen
• Clementine
• Adele
• Daniels
• Frankie
• Courtney
• Chloe
• Sam
• Julia
• Judy
• Dylan

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• “We go back upstairs to find Savannah standing where we left her, looking flustered. "What's the matter?" my mother asks. "Um, I'm not exactly sure what to do, Mrs. Delaney." "Oh, you know, just put plates, napkins, silverware--the usual. I left everything right there one the counter for you." She points to the counter.”

  told in the point of view of Jess

• “'Cassidy starts to pace. 'We were riding our bikes home from practice, right?' she says. 'We always ride home together. But today, instead of him going on down Stow to his house, he turns up Hubbard with me. I figure he wants to race, so I really kick it into high gear. He chases after me and follows into our driveway. So then I get off my bike, and we're talking like normal, and then all of a sudden he's right in front of my face. It was like he was stealing second or something, he just dove at me! I thought maybe I had a wasp in my hair but then he goes and grabs me and kisses me!' We all stare at her as she wipes her sleeve vigorously across her lips, 'It was just do gross!' she finishes angrily.”

  told in the point of veiw of Emma

• “Great. If that isn't just the nonexistent cherry on my un-sundae of a day.”

• “Friendship is where the best stories begin.”

• Popular Highlights from Kindle Customers

• “A woman, whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge—is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.” —Daddy-Long-Legs

  Highlighted by 18 Kindle customers

• “It isn’t the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit.” —Daddy-Long-Legs

  Highlighted by 14 Kindle customers

• “I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh —also if I win.” —Daddy-Long-Legs

  Highlighted by 12 Kindle customers

• “She believes that if you are a Pendleton, that fact alone admits you to heaven without any further examination. Julia and I were born to be enemies.” —Daddy-Long-Legs

  Highlighted by 12 Kindle customers

• “It’s awfully hard for me not to tell everything I know. I’m a very confiding soul by nature, if I didn’t have you to tell things to, I’d burst.” —Daddy-Long-Legs

  Highlighted by 11 Kindle customers

• “I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language.” —Daddy-Long-Legs

  Highlighted by 9 Kindle customers

• “Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.” —Just Patty

  Highlighted by 9 Kindle customers

• “I am beginning to feel at home in the world—as though I really belonged in it.” —Daddy-Long-Legs

  Highlighted by 8 Kindle customers

• “They felt the thrill of the untried future, with Romance waiting around the corner.” —Just Patty

  Highlighted by 7 Kindle customers

• “This summer I’m going to write and write and write and begin to be a great author.” —Daddy-Long-Legs

  Highlighted by 6 Kindle customers

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Concord
• Washington
• Half Moon Farm
• Paris
• Wyoming
• Colonial Academy
• Hong Kong
• New York
• Walden Middle School
• White House
• Boston
• New England
• D.c.
• Walden Woodsman
• Pip
• Switzerland
• France
• Alcott High
• Witherspoon

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Much Ado About Anne, and followed by Pies and Prejudice.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Heather Vogel Frederick (Author)

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

More for 10-14 can really enjoy this book

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• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Social Situations › Friendship › Fiction
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• Books › Children's Books › Ages 9-12