Piper Reed, Party Planner
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Previously published as Piper Reed Gets a Job.
Piper Reed and her fellow Gypsy Club members are in need of a clubhouse. Raising money to buy one proves a challenge. Piper, being the resourceful fifth grader that she is, launches her own party-planning business and gets her first job throwing young Brady's birthday celebration. But things don't go as expected on the day of the big event. Fortunately for Piper, her friends and family come to her rescue!
Kimberly Willis Holt
Twenty three years ago Kimberly Willis Holt stopped talking about wanting to be a writer and started to pursue her dream. Because of her family's Louisiana roots she considers herself a southerner, but her father's military career took her to places beyond the South, including Paris and Guam. She's the author of more than fifteen books for a wide range of ages, many of which have won awards and honors. Her third novel, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She writes and gardens in Texas.
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Reviews for Piper Reed, Party Planner
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Piper Reed and her friends need a clubhouse for their club meetings. The only problem is that the clubhouse cost $1999. Piper starts a party planning business and takes on other jobs. Nothing goes according to plan though. I think the book is really cute and funny. It is one from a series of books by Kimberly Willis Holt about a young girl named Piper Reed. She is the daughter of a military man and has moved around a lot. This books and the rest of the series would be great to use with my students, especially if they too are military brats. They could be very relatable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Piper Reed and the Gypsy Club need a clubhouse. Unfortunately it will cost close to $2000. Piper decides to get a job. She puts a sign in her front yard that says she designs party planner. She decides to help her younger sister by illustrating her book and when her older sister needs someone to cover her babysitting job she takes on that task as well. Add to all of this her school project and you have a disaster in the making. This was an easy and wuick book to read, and a lot of fun.
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Piper Reed, Party Planner - Kimberly Willis Holt
1
First Day of School
Beep, beep. Six thirty. I turned off the alarm, threw off my covers, and popped out of bed. My insides did flip-flops. There was something exciting about the first day of school. Especially when it was everybody’s first day of school. Not like last year, when we moved to Pensacola in October and I was the only new kid in class. This year, the first day of school meant new notebooks, new pencils, new shoes, new teacher, and a new seat at the back of the class. Everything would be new except for me.
e9781466814264_i0003.jpgI wondered if Mr. Clark would be my teacher this year. He gave out treat coupons when students got the correct answers. Or maybe I’d be assigned to Mrs. Lindsey. She designed the butterfly garden outside the fifth-grade wing. Her students got extra time outside to take care of the garden.
Instead of sitting in the front of the class like my teacher, Ms. Gordon, made me do last year, I planned to pick a seat at the back near the window. That way I could watch butterflies dart around the salvia in the garden. It was going to be a get-off-the-bus kind of year.
Then I walked inside the school and everything changed. The school secretary grinned at me from behind the registration table.
Good morning, Piper Reed! How was your summer?
How did you know my name?
I asked her. There were hundreds of kids at our school.
Piper Reed, everyone knows your name. You’re famous at Blue Angels Elementary School.
She handed me a piece of paper. Here’s your room assignment.
Room 308.
There must be a mistake—308 was my room last year,
I said.
She shook her head. There’s no mistake. We have more fifth-graders this year, so we had to put one class in the fourth-grade hall.
Getting room 308, again, meant I’d have to change my plans. I wouldn’t be able to see the butterfly garden. Then I remembered the tree outside the window. Instead of watching butterflies, I’d watch squirrels and birds.
e9781466814264_i0004.jpgOn the way to class, I ran into Michael and Nicole. Michael didn’t look happy either. Room 308 again. Boring!
I’m in room 405,
said Nicole as she headed toward the real fifth-grade hall.
Michael and I walked into 308 together. It even smelled the same—old paste mixed with stinky sneakers. We rushed to the back of the room and chose seats in the row nearest the window. Outside, a cardinal landed on a branch of the huge tree. Watching birds wasn’t like watching butterflies, but it was better than the blackboard.
A moment later, Ms. Gordon walked in. How could a teacher forget it was the first day of school? Maybe she forgot something in her old desk drawer.
Sorry, Michael and Piper,
she said, but that’s not going to work. You two need to take your former seats, where I can keep an eye on you.
I stayed seated. "Ms. Gordon, this is a fifth-grade class now."
Just then, Hailey entered the classroom, followed by show-off-know-it-all Kami.
Hi, Ms. Gordon,
Kami said, prancing to the same seat where she sat last year. I’m so glad you’re our teacher again.
I picked up my new notebooks and new pencil case and walked to my old desk. The first day of school loses all its specialness when you get last year’s teacher and have to sit in your same old seat in the same old classroom.
That first week dragged like an ant climbing Mount Everest. We reviewed fractions, learned how to write in different tenses, and studied our vocabulary lists. It was exactly like last year, only Nicole wasn’t there. Lucky Nicole got Mrs. Lindsey and had already started working in the butterfly garden.
We planted purple coneflowers today,
she told me. They attract the Viceroy butterfly.
Finally Saturday arrived. The Dandelion Club was due at my house any minute. Paint fumes filled the living room. Mom was busy painting the backdrop for my big sister, Tori’s, middle school play. Her drama coach asked Mom to create it since she was the art teacher at the elementary school. She’d set up a makeshift table out of plywood and two sawhorses. It ran the entire length of the living room, leaving no space for the Dandelion Club. We’d have to find a new place to meet.
Last year, when I was in fourth grade, Mom substituted for our art teacher who was on maternity leave. Now Mrs. Kimmel wanted to stay home with her baby. So Mom got to be the art teacher officially. At first I thought it would be cool having Mom as a teacher, but I soon learned there weren’t any benefits. She never said my art projects were the best, even if they