Melanie Harmer-aka the Hammer-the meanest teacher at Dandelion Middle School.ĭad and Melanie got engaged at the end of October, but they didn’t want the hassle of a long engagement. My dad couldn’t meet a nice lady over the Internet like a normal person. But last month, I added a new word just below it:įor Halloween most kids got a bucketful of candy. Then there are words I despise, words that can wrap around your heart and squeeze you until you feel like you can’t breathe anymore.Ĭancer-It’s on the top of my Words I Hate list. Words like bucolic, which means relating to rural life, but reminds me of the flu, and makes me queasy every time I hear it. I also have a list of Words I Don’t Like. But it’s been a long time since I added anything to it. On my list of Words I Love, I have sparkling, bubbling, and spinning because they remind me of parties and people smiling and no tears at all. Each list has a different title, like Words I Love, Funny Words, or Words That Annoy Me. I have a glittery purple journal where I keep word lists. She’d rather forget about the list completely, but feels compelled to honor her mother’s wishes.Īnd when Izzy’s crush confides a big secret to Violet, Violet feels like she is stuck between her best friend and the boy who she just might have a crush on, too… Read more

Aunt Mildred decides she will give them each a charm to put on their bracelet if they do all of the tasks on the Christmas Wish List, which Violet is not too happy about. Violet shows the letter to her friend Izzy’s Aunt Mildred, who calls a meeting of the Charm Girls, a club Izzy and Violet belong to along with their friends, Daisy and Sophia. On the list are exactly the kinds of things Violet doesn’t want to do this year, like Be Someone’s Secret Santa Give Someone the Gift of Your Time: Volunteer and Bake Christmas Cookies.

But on the day Violet and her dad are packing up and moving into the new house they’ll share with Melanie and Melanie’s two children, Violet finds a letter her mother wrote to her before she died, asking Violet to enjoy Christmas, along with a Christmas Wish List-things her mom wants her to do during the holiday season. the meanest teacher at Dandelion Hollow Middle School. She’s still grieving the loss of her mother, and to make things worse, her dad has just married Melanie Harmer, a.k.a. Violet Barnaby is a having a blue Christmas.

Violet Barnaby searches for the joy in life after losing her mother in this sweet and funny follow-up to The Charming Life of Izzy Malone.

Seeing cinderella by jenny lundquist