Elsie’s behavior is definitely mean spirited and it’s hard to feel sympathetic towards her.
Elsie makes Annie feel nervous and all she wants to do is get away and make new friends. She doesn’t let Annie play any games at recess and even invited herself over to Annie’s where she proceeded to ruin some of the toys in Annie’s room. Elsie likes to talk about how mean the other girls are to her and tells on them to their teacher whenever she gets a chance. Review : Annie Browne is a sweet girl, who wants to make friends at her new school, but Elsie Schneider immediately claims Annie as her own and Annie soon realizes that this will hurt her chances of becoming friends with the other girls who seem to be more like her. Annie won’t get rid of her so easily this time….
She will be Annie’s best friend, and she will have her revenge. But her claim on Annie’s friendship lives on, and so does her anger at Annie and the others who made her life miserable. After all, Elsie is obnoxious and her father is German-a Hun, the enemy in the war overseas.Įlsie becomes a victim of the deadly Spanish influenza. She even joins her new friends in teasing and picking on Elsie. Soon Annie shares their opinion.Īnnie finds other friends and stays away from Elsie, as far away as she can get. Annie’s classmates don’t like Elsie: she’s a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Before Annie has a chance to meet the other girls in her class, clingy Elsie Schneider claims Annie as her best friend. Official Summary (Add on Goodreads) : Annie Browne is new at school in September 1918. The release of this ghost story perfectly coincides with the approach of cooler weather and the spooky days of Halloween – it will not stay on shelves.Source: copy from ALA17 all opinions are always our own The themes of this story – bullying, friendship, responsibility – make great topics for debate, especially as it implies the past is not so different from the present.
Elsie’s ghost is as cruel in death as in life, and Annie cannot help but be influenced by the mean-spirited nature of her haunting. Hahn returns with another ghost story that mixes historical fiction with the supernatural. When Annie starts hearing voices, she fears the worst, but ghosts aren’t real, are they? However, the flu takes hold of their town, and Elsie perishes to the disease. When Elsie bullies her way to Annie’s house and ruins a favorite doll, Annie decides that she can’t be friends with Elsie and joins Rosie’s group, which insults and snubs Elsie. Besides, Elsie is a rude, lying, mean girl. On her first day of school, Elsie claims Annie as a new best friend, but Annie finds out quickly that to be Elsie’s friend is to risk social isolation. It is 1918, and Annie has moved to a new town.
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