There's no such thing as a boy thing or a girl thing. An Aesop: In "Oh Boy Amelia", Carly tells her classmate Clarisse not to worry if an activity she enjoys something that's masculine or if a boy enjoys something that's feminine, because those categories are arbitrary.Tropes associated with Amelia's Notebook: Not to be confused with Amelia Bedelia or Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis (from The Princess Diaries). Scholastic also published the whole Amelia's Notebook series due to a licensing agreement with Marissa Moss (hence having their logo stamped on a spine as their certification mark). American Girl magazine also ran a column for her, for nearly a decade. Later books center around other problems that most girls eventually have to deal with, such as crushes, making the jump to middle school, gossip, and babysitting.Įvery book is told in an undated diary format, with just as many doodles in the margins and photographs and random objects taped inside as one would expect from a preteen girl. The series opened with Amelia learning how to adjust to moving to a new state. The series follows the everyday events in the life of Amelia, an ordinary girl living in the Pacific northwest. A series of realistic fiction books written by Marissa Moss and published by Simon and Schuster (who also did licensed books based on Full House, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Bob the Builder, Dora the Explorer, Clueless and SpongeBob SquarePants).
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