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Dagmar Schultz and the Green-Eyed Monster
Dagmar Schultz and the GreenEyed Monster Author:Lynn Hall Grade 5-7-- Two things happen to Dagmar in December. She has her first real experience with competition in the form of beautiful Ashley Fingerhut, a girl new to the little town of Berlin, Iowa. In her room alone, Dagmar faces the G. E. M. (green-eyed monster), who urges her to get back at her rival. Her attempts to do so only lead to failure and... more » self-recrimination. Then her first period begins, and she realizes with pride that she is a woman. Dagmar, 13, tells her story in a down-to-earth, conversational style. She is a well-drawn, believable character whose confusion and moodiness are kept in perspective by her sense of the absurd. Working through her problems, she learns to temper her cocky self-assurance and to look beyond herself. Her recognition that beginning menstruation may have affected her moods will both inform and reassure preteen girls.« less