Positively Izzy

Positively Izzy

Book Title:
Positively Izzy
Author:
Terri Libenson
Pages:
220

This is a story about Izzy and Bri. Izzy is creative and love theatre and to act. Bri is the complete opposite, she loves science and math. Bri is known as Bri the Brain. Bri's mom longs for her to be in the drama club, which definitely is not Bri's thing but when the opportunity arises to help her mom out, she consents.

Izzy puts theater before everything, including her studies. Conflict with her mom ensues when she forgets to do a take-home test and her mom finds out about it and grounds her from performing in the school talent show.

This was a cute graphic with an unusual twist at the end. The chapters alternate between Bri and Izzy's stories. The one problem I had with it was the stereotypes of the kids. I feel like this is already so prevalent in middle school culture that it really doesn't need to be perpetuated in the literature the kids will read.