Just Jaime audiobook

A great story for anyone going through a shift in a friendship or social status. This is so great for middle grade reading. I'm going to recommend this to my niece. I think she will like it.I haven't heard of Terri Libenson, but Terri is an author to watch, in my opinion. There are 2 more stories in this series and this was so good that I want to read the others. I feel like this story was about finding strength of character and strength of yourself. It was a well done story. It took me a few pages to figure this out. The story is told from 2 character's perspectives. Maya looks like a normal comic strip might. Jaime's pages look more like a dairy with a few pictures thrown in so it's easy to keep the perspective straight once you figure that out. We start our with Jaime and her click of friends. There is Grace - the follower, Maya - the BFF, and Celia - the ultra cool girl that is the most popular in school, she rules the click. Maya and Jaime are having a rough time. The other girls are changing and doing older stuff that Jaime doesn't care about. She still wants to have fun and be silly. Maya and the other girls feel like Jaime is holding them back and she doesn't wear the right clothes or talk about the right stuff or act the right way. Eventually, Jaime gets a text from Maya cutting telling her she is out of the group. Jaime is hurt and trying to work through this. She doesn't shrink or give in. She holds her head high and keeps going. There is another group of interesting kids. Jaime learns about herself in this process and about what is important in life. She also learns to be more conscious of what you say to people and how you talk about them as it can really hurt feelings. People grow and change and it's difficult to realize you are out of sync with friends. I had a friend that I thought we were close in high school and all the sudden he wouldn't talk to me and I could tell he didn't even like to be around me. To this day, I don't know what it was about or what happened. He never said a word. I just had to keep my distance. It was painful and I still would like to know what happened. At the same time, I did that to someone else earlier in my life, not meaning too really. I had karma coming to me. I regret that choice in 7th grade. It's a time of survival. The honest truth is I hardly spoke to a soul in middle school I was so terrified of people. Those were lonely days. High school was amazing for me compared to that. This story touched on all those things for me. It does a great job of showing a healthy way of dealing with these things and to examine what we're doing. I wish I could have read it in 5th grade to have a little understanding of what was going on.I do think this is a powerful story. It's full of melodrama, but it's also that time of life. It's very well done and I plan on reading more of this author.

Rereading after three years....Listening to a book-i listened to this book as an audio version first-is way different than reading it. I wonder at how my opinion about that story has completely changed after "actually" reading the text.I admire how maturely Terri Libenson portrayed some negative personality traits that are common among kids, like bad sense of humor or gossiping. I loved how the main characters learned their lessons without breaching or unrealistic happy ends, although the ending was happy and cute...................................................................2019 audio version review:I'm pretty sure that kids will love this story, and they will relate to what happens in their everyday school life.But for me as an adult, i KNEW that people unfortunately don't get to their senses that quick. Especially if they were teenagers.

Near the end of the book, Jaime mentions that an older cousin compares middle school to a huge bowl of drama soup. This third installment in the Emmie and Friends series serves up a big serving of that soup. In alternating chapters (and formats) we watch the friendship between Jaime and her BFF since Kindergarten fray and finally fall apart. And the worst of it occurs on the last day of 7th grade. Thanks to some compassionate adults and kids in her class (including Emmie and Brianna), Jaime finds a way through. She also realizes that her past is not without mistakes that need to be apologized for. A great reminder that we all make mistakes and should be more kind to each other. The format really works for me as I find nonstop graphic panels to be a bit intimidating to my linear brain. The distinct format differences also make for clear boundaries between the two girls' POVs. I am excited about reading Brianna's own story next.

I really loved this one. This middle-grade graphic novel takes on your usual middle school (or primary school for me) cliques and peer pressure. It’s funny and relatable with many complex layers to the story. I love that Jaime, who gets kicked out of her friend group because she’s apparently not cool enough, is not perfect but shown to have been a mean gossip, too. Great book for kids (and adults, really) to learn about forgiveness and branching out of your exclusive friend groups.

Being on the outs or being dumped by your friend group is a relatively universal middle school experience, at least for girls, and this captures it pretty well. While I am of course happy that everything is neatly solved, that was the part that felt most far-fetched.

Most of this book takes place on the last day of 7th grade. Jaime and Maya have been best friends since kindergarten, but lately Jaime is feeling left out of her group of friends: Maya, Grace and Celia. Little digs at her appearance or things she likes etc.. are becoming more common. Jaime knows something is wrong, but can't figure out what it is until she gets the text from Maya saying that they had a meeting and decided that she was "out of their group." Maya is so desperate for Celia's approval that she agrees to "break-up" with Jaime because Celia thinks she is too babyish for them.This book accurately depicts the ups and downs of middle school friendships: the jealousy and cliques that form, how someone can be your best friend and then one day they are not and how some girls can be swayed by the "popular" girls and do what they say even at the expense of others. Jaime's reactions to the text from Maya and other events throughout the day seem so real and I really sympathized with her. I was happy that she was able to find other kids to hang out with, so that she was not alone. And I loved that she was also mature enough to realize that her gossiping with Maya was actually "mean girl" behavior and apologize for it.My daughter, who is in 7th grade read the book in one afternoon and loved it. She thought it accurately represented the drama that can take place in middle school. I thought this book was just as good as the other two books in the series, however I thought the surprise twist at the end in the other two books was better than the one in this book. Overall though, this was an excellent book and one that I highly recommend.

Terri Libenson has a really firm grasp on what it’s like to be a middle schooler. Just Jaime deals with losing friends and forgiveness. The story was so recognizable it had me thinking of my own middle school drama and remembering how much it hurt then, but seems so silly now. I really enjoyed this one, just as much as her other two, if not more!

I love Terri Libenson and her books. They always tell such relevant and important stories about friendship and growing up.

I'm not a girl, but this nailed middle school lifePubertyNoticing othersthe formation of cliqsI do not envy my daughter who will be in sixth grade this year, as this hell is what awaits

Accurate portrayal of middle school drama in an easy to read graphic novel format.

This one is more complicated and serious than the other twos.The tension between Jaime and Maya, also Celia’s arrogance. My most favorite of this series!

Good middle grade graphic novel I liked the message and the humor thrown in. I would have loved this book when I was in middle school