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President of the WHOLE Fifth Grade

I was a reluctant reader of this book when I first glanced at the cover.  With all the cupcakes and the reference to fifth grade, I was sure it would be either a ‘mean girls’ or a ‘twitter techno’ kind of book–you know the type, a lot of blah, blah, blahing about not much of anything.  So I was totally knocked for a loop after I started reading it–I couldn’t put it down!  What really surprised me was all the complicated, kind of grown up issues that were presented.  Planning your life, saving your money and actually having a banking account, running an election campaign, starting a business, dealing with a new girl who tries to steal your friends, what it means to be a friend, and honesty–all just to name a few.  All these issues rolled into a great story.  Plus there are even some cupcake recipes at the end of the book.  So get over the cover–it’s a much more serious and realistic book than what the ‘cuteness’ of the cover implies.