11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Amanda’s eleventh birthday should have been a happy occasion. Instead she’s dressed in an itchy costume her mother picked out for her Hollywood-themed party (Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, even though the flying monkeys have always creeped her out). Meanwhile, across town, her ex-best friend Leo is celebrating their joint birthday with a huge bash including a hypnotist, a football star, a giant iguana, and a rock band. SO not fair!
Amanda can’t wait for the day AFTER her birthday so she can stop thinking about the fight that led to her and Leo having separate parties for the first time in their lives. There’s just one problem. The next day is her birthday all over again.
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Snacks
- Green apple tootsie pop (Page 30–31: “I rest my backpack on the floor and notice that a few lockers away, a Tootsie Roll Pop is lying next to the wall. I bend down to look closer. It’s a green apple one. My favorite.”)
- Apple (Page 179: “Lived up in Apple Grove. Their farms were Apple Grove, really. Supplied all the town with ripe juicy apples.”)
- Corn Pops cereal (Page 25: “I consider her question as I pour milk on my Corn Pops.”)
Activities
- Write a poem -- Since Leo writes poetry in the book, I gave the girls five templates for different types of poems. They could choose one of the templates to write a poem about something from the book, or they could write their own poem not using a template. The templates I gave the girls were a Diamante poem, I Am poem, Haiku, Acrostic, and Bio poem.
- Decorate a clay pot -- Leo and Amanda have small pots with apple plants that turn out to be very important to the story, so I gave the girls a small clay pot, and they decorated it with sharpie. I also gave them a little bag of dirt and instructions on how to plant an apple seed of their own.
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