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In Denver, Robin (a.ka. Bird) is in with the cool clique. They wear the same clothes, talk the same way, and pick on the same girls. But when her Mom hears about a cruel prank against a less popular girl, she isn't going to tolerate the Queen Bee behavior. Within 24 hours, she pulls up stakes and moves them both to Prairie Dog, Oklahoma. Bird is positively furious, and she's going get revenge on her hippy artist mother. In fact, revenge is the only thing keeping her going in the remote town. How she's going to get it, though, she's not sure yet.
When she goes to register at the local middle school, she's mistaken for the interim school principal. Who is Bird to correct the mistake when a prank like this will really get payback on her mom? Though she won't be able to pull this off forever, Bird's determined to make her mark on the middle school before she's found out. But life in the principal's chair is going to give her quite an unexpected change in perspective.
Chicken fever: one chicken picks on another and draws blood; all the rest of the chickens gang up and pick on the hurt one. In a similar situation, at her previous school Robin was a member of the "six-pack," a clique that mercilessly picked on another student. Her mother, convinced the influence of the other girls was not healthy, pulled her from the school and moved to a small town in another state. Walking into her new school, Robin is mistaken for the temporary principal. In her new role she must deal with another picked-on student and the group of girls that instigate it. Trying to act like an adult, her thinking is still that of an eighth grader. For help she calls the Psychic Emergency Line, which actually does give her some good advice. Being 13-years-old Robin sides with the students, letting them have a water balloon fight, agreeing the cafeteria food is horrible, and allowing tank tops and shorts. She also helps the picked-on girl gain confidence and she convinces other students to side with her and not let the clique get the upper hand. The characters are caring, the story funny, and the bullying situation all too common. This is a great book for middle school students.
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Brian Bevins
reviewed Confessions from the Principal's Chair on December 04, 2007
Confessions from the Principal's Chair
Booktalk:
Living in Denver, 8th grader Robin aka Bird is finally part of a cool clique of girls who call themselves "the 6-pack". They wear the same clothes, talk the same way, and pick on the not-so-popular girls. Bird doesn't actually enjoy being mean, but in order to keep her place in the 6 pack she is expected to participate in some pretty horrible antics against any girl seen as a loser. When Bird's Mom hears about a particularily cruel prank that the 6 pack pull against a girl named Marcy, she just isn't going to tolerate this kind of behavior from Bird. Within 24 hours, she pulls Bird out of school and announces that the two of them are moving to Prairie Dog, Oklahoma, an extremely small town that doesn't even have a Starbucks much to Bird's dismay.
Bird is positively furious, and determined that she'll never forgive her mother from moving her away from her friends, and her new-found popularity. In fact, anger is the only thing keeping her going in the remote town.
When her mom offers to buy Bird some new clothes for school, Bird is still so angry that instead of choosing jeans and cute tops, she picks out business suits, the type that a grown woman, a lawyer or a banker, might wear. She doesn't want to make any new friends at this new school and she believes that showing up looking like a dork in a suit will definitely keep any of these small town kids at bay.
Bird is also tall for her age, and has taken acting lessons for the past couple of years, she's become so good as a matter of fact that her drama teacher back in Denver believed that Bird might have a possible future career as an actress.
So when she goes alone to register at Thomas Jefferson middle school, wearing a suit and makeup, and looking ten years older, and she's mistaken for the new interim school principal, Bird sees this as the perfect acting opportunity, and the perfect opportunity to get even with mom. Now she's suddenly finds herself in the principal's chair, facing a snoopy secretary, kids in the lunchroom who are rebelling against the horrible food, a coach who would rather watch soap operas than work, and a troubled girl named Serenity who reminds Bird of Marcy, the girl she used to pick on back in Denver...
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