Superfudge

I read Superfudge by Judy Blume. This book received the Texas Bluebonnet Award in 1980. I chose this book because my mom recommended it because she remembered reading it when she was a kid. This book is about a family, mom, dad, Peter, Fudge, and baby Tootsie. The book's main focus is Peter, and the biggest problem he is faced with at the beginning is that his mom tells him that she's having another baby. Peter is not excited about this because his four-year-old brother Fudge is already more than he can handle. However, Peter eventually comes to like Tootsie. The larger problem Peter faces is that his family is moving to Princeton for a year to see if they like it. As we saw with Tootsie, Peter doesn't like change, so when Peter is told they're moving to Princeton he's is beyond unhappy. However, the book continues, and even though change isn't easy for Peter he finds some good things among the change. In the end, Peter's family decided to move back to New York. The appropriate grade level for this book would be fourth grade to eighth grade. If I used this book in my classroom, it would be because kids go through changes all the time, and this book makes it easy for those kids to relate to those changes. I think from reading this book it would be good for kids to write a paper on a change they experienced in their life, and how they got through it compared to Peter.