The Girls get even / by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

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Title:

The Girls get even / by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

Author:

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

ISBN:

9780385310291

Publication Information:

New York : Delacorte, 1993.

Physical Description:

129 p.

Abstract:

As Halloween approaches, the three Malloy sisters find themselves continually trying to get even with the four Hatford brothers, who have been playing tricks on them since the Malloys moved from Ohio to West Virginia. Sequel to "The Boys Start the War."

Subject Term:

Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction.

Revenge -- Juvenile fiction.

Halloween -- Juvenile fiction.

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Summary

A Newbery Award-winning AuthorWinner of the Young Reader's Choice AwardSince the Malloy sisters moved across the river from the Hartford brothers, the boys have used every trick they know to get the girls to want to move back to Ohio. Still smarting from the latest episode, the girls are determined to get even. The boys, however, have a creepy plan for Halloween night.

Reviews (3)

Horn Book Review

Readers of 'The Boys Start the War' (Delacorte) will be pleased to find that the sequel has the three Malloy sisters and the four Hatford brothers feuding as busily as ever. Even those who missed the first book will enjoy the nonstop pranks played by the young neighbors. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

In the rivalry that began with The Boys Start the War (1992), the Hatford boys once again square off against their neighbors, the Malloy sisters, when both agree that the winner of the school Halloween costume contest can exact a month's ``slavery'' from the losers. After fruitless attempts to winkle out each other's ideas, both sides resort to sabotage, which gets them disqualified. As in the first book, the Hatfords and Malloys are evenly matched and their pranks generally backfire, causing fury or embarrassment but no harm. Naylor's young characters are lively and distinct (adults are seldom seen, existing only to avoid or manipulate), but the ``war,'' again, seems forced. Generally, the combatants want to call it off, but each time it's about to flicker out, some contrived circumstance heats it up. The plot is episodic, with an extraneous subplot--Caroline makes a long-awaited stage debut in a fourth-grade production--and no single climax. The versatile Naylor seems to be treading water with this aimless series. (Fiction. 11- 13) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

Gr. 3-5. Very much a sequel to The Boys Start the War [F 15 93], this has the same joyful combination of farce, embarrassment, and vulgar insult as the Malloy girls try to outwit the Hartford boys in their small West Virginia town. It's not as funny the second time around; some of the Halloween costume jokes echo those in the first book, and the power game ("Whichever group wins first prize--you or us--will be the masters and the other group will be the slaves") goes on far too long. Still, Naylor captures the way kids play, especially the intensity about enemies, and the plot is full of nice reversal as each group loses, gets even, and loses again. Their parents don't get any of it, and that's also part of the fun. (Reviewed Aug. 1993)0385310293Hazel Rochman