Brother Brother, Sister Sister

By Helen Dunmore

Tanya's life is a mess. She's got four new brothers and sisters. Nobody in her family gets much sleep anymore, and there are diapers everywhere. Tanya deals with the craziness by writing in her diary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439113229
• ISBN13: 9780439113229
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Apple Signature (Scholastic)
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Brothers, sisters, girlfriends, bottles, diapers... poopee!

A little bit of sunshine didn't hurt anyone. I have come back to the bright days of primary school, with all those important affairs, and that indescribable feeling of being able to live forever just as I was. I preferred to read Jules Verne, "Three Musketeers", "Winnetou" or Moomins, but then I never shied away from so-called girls' books. Now I can boast myself that I read all books of the "Anne of Green Gables" series when I was small. Now, having fallen in love with Helen Dunmore's prose (I have recently read a good old fashioned novel, "A Spell of Winter", by this author), I decided to look what else she might have written. I didn't hesitate much to buy "Brother Brother, Sister Sister", since I had a hunch that it was going to be a light, bright and shiny humorous book that would take about 20 years' burden off my back. And so it did!"(...)And I didn't really want to go out in the playground anyway, because I'm still not talking to Rachel and it's so boring, not talking to people when you have to keep remembering about it, and everybody else keeps remembering about it and giving you little looks when you go near the other person you're not talking to.(...) Then I saw a flicker of Rachel's red skirt. She'd just come in with Clare to get something out of her drawer. She was not looking at me in the careful way you have to not look at people if you want it to look as if you're not looking at them."Wouldn't you be? Hey, if you have a daughter, she'll familiarize with Tanya, the heroine - in an instant. That book is all about daughters. What do we have here? Tanya is writing her diary, ever so seriously, and it just happened that her dad lost his job, and her mom gave birth to quads. And so the story begins. Very funny events, lots of lovable mess, and of course playground friendship tangles to untangle. Lovely book, I tell you.

Brother Brother Sister Sister

If you love to read here is a book for you.This story is about a girl about 11 years old whos mom just had four babies and she dose not seem to have any more time for her. When she gets the lead role in a school play her parents cant come. So in the middle of the play her dad comes and waits out side the window and embarrises her she loses her lines. I think this is a great book to learn how to apprechate your parents.

Brother, Brother, Sister, Sister

This book is about a girl named Tyana that has 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Now her best friend Racheal does not want to be Tyana's friend because Tyana had lied to Racheal. At the end of the term a new girl Natile comes and Natile lives five blocks away from Tyana. They became friends.Then later on Racheal forgives Tyana, and they live happily ever after.