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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dork Diaries. Super trashy but third grade DD and friends love them.

DD has also recently read and enjoyed Charlotte’s Web and Little House in the Big Woods, if you want something more classic for that age group. [/quote]

What specifically makes them super trashy, do have examples?  [/quote]

DP who said I didn't love them -- trashy is a bit much but I find there's a big emphasis on crushes and kind of tween/teenaged issues like being fashionable which I find my daughter tends to parrot without really understanding, and the storylines are more silly than you would expect for a book geared at slightly older kids (like the main character in earlier books sticks out for being a scholarship kid at a prep school but along the way she accidentally becomes an international pop star?  My daughter checks them out of the library out of order so I'm not sure how exactly that happened, and in that book the fact that she's an international pop star is not the defining thing going on in her life it's just like, a weird thing that happened this summer!).  Also the words: pictures ratio is pretty skewed for a chapter book, but for a kid the age OP is asking about that's not really a problem IMO.[/quote]

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