If you enjoy making and checking off a good list, this is a great book for you. A fun piece of Realistic Fiction, Always Abigail, is a SC Book Winner, written by Nancy Cavanaugh. It isn’t exactly a diary, it’s a list journal, or maybe you’d call it a listicle, written by sixth grader, Abigail Walters, to keep track of all the things she thinks are important (Pom Squad), awesome (her best friends, Alli and Cami), and terrible (her mean language arts teacher, The Hawk, and her uncool assigned class partner, Gabby Marco).
Abigail longs to join the Pom Squad and to be popular, but with Gabby Marco, she starts to develop a friendship that is more genuine than what she had with her supposed besties. I liked that Cavanaugh didn’t make it easier for Abigail to do the right thing, which happens in too many books and movies. Gabby did not get cooler or prettier or less weird. The perks of being a cheerleader did not fade. So yeah, by the end, Abigail’s struggle seemed genuinely hard. Abigail realizes some not so delicious things about herself, and I think it helps us recognize those opportunities in our own lives when we actually get to decide to “be better.”
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