Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls is a series of novels by Meg Cabot the New York Times bestselling author that is best known for writing over 80 novels in the children's, young adult, and adult genres. Meg was born in Bloomington, Indiana but lived in Carmel, California and Grenoble in France before she moved to New York after getting her fine arts bachelors degree from Indiana University. She worked fro a decade at the New York University where she was assistant residence hall director an experience she chronicled in the Heather Wells mystery series. Some of her other successful series include The Boy is Back, Boy Next Door/Every Boy's Got One/Boy Meets Girl, Avalon High, and All-American Girl. Cabot's first ever adult series was Royal Wedding
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The biggest headache for the fourth grader is that her parents have decided to move out of their nice house and neighborhood to go to a huge Victorian mansion that at first glance was a little bit creepy. It had these big and dark windows that she thought looked like massive eyes looking down on them. Worse still she has to leave behind Mary Kay Shiner her slightly annoying friend, her elementary school she was so used to and her geode collection. Its now up to Allie to adapt for the move and make the best of it once the family moves across town. In preparation for the move she makes a set of rules that form the titles of the novels in the Allie Finkle series. Some of these are very funny and comedic such as Dont put your cat in a suitcase and Dont Stick a spatula down your best friends throat. But when it comes to the life aspects such as friendship it becomes elusive given that you cannot make rules for the erratic nature of human relationships. Alongside Finkle are her Max and Kevin her two little brothers, Mrs. Hunter her beautiful new teacher, her uncle, her father and mother. Throughout the course of the series, Allie has to deal with a lot including the distractions that a typical nine year old has such as her new kitten, Rosemary the bully, and the spelling bee among
The biggest headache for the fourth grader is that her parents have decided to move out of their nice house and neighborhood to go to a huge Victorian mansion that at first glance was a little bit creepy. It had these big and dark windows that she thought looked like massive eyes looking down on them. Worse still she has to leave behind Mary Kay Shiner her slightly annoying friend, her elementary school she was so used to and her geode collection. Its now up to Allie to adapt for the move and make the best of it once the family moves across town. In preparation for the move she makes a set of rules that form the titles of the novels in the Allie Finkle series. Some of these are very funny and comedic such as Dont put your cat in a suitcase and Dont Stick a spatula down your best friends throat. But when it comes to the life aspects such as friendship it becomes elusive given that you cannot make rules for the erratic nature of human relationships. Alongside Finkle are her Max and Kevin her two little brothers, Mrs. Hunter her beautiful new teacher, her uncle, her father and mother. Throughout the course of the series, Allie has to deal with a lot including the distractions that a typical nine year old has such as her new kitten, Rosemary the bully, and the spelling bee among