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O'Neill, Alexis

The Recess Queen

32 pp. | Scholastic | February, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-439-20637-5 $$15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith. Mean Jean rules the schoolyard until a feisty, diminutive newcomer, Katie Sue, invites her to help break in a new jump rope, and the bully learns that being a tyrant is overrated. Though the rhyme is irregular, the language in this manic democracy lesson is lively ("she'd push 'em and smoosh 'em, / lollapaloosh 'em"), and Huliska-Beith uses acrylics and collage to capture the power struggles from appropriately lofty perspectives.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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