Sheryl berk and carrie berk

Sign up for our newsletters! Emma Woods knows just how to fix all her peers' problems or so she thinks-in this first book in the brand-new middle grade series Ask Emma , from the bestselling creators behind the Cupcake Club series! When year-old Emma Woods gets that tingling feeling in her fingertips, she knows she's on to a great idea and starting an advice blog for her classmates at Austen Middle may be one of her most brilliant ones yet! Who better to give advice on friendship, style, school and even crushes than someone who's going through it too? But when Ask Emma goes live, she quickly realizes not everyone sees it that way.

Thank you! Surprisingly, her teachers are fully supportive, putting the blog on the school website. After she intervenes with a Spanish teacher to make his classroom management fairer and tries to move a clock forward to end gym class early, however, Emma begins to earn a reputation as an effective mediator, and interest in her blog—as well as push back—picks up. A series of nasty, bullying comments posted on it gives her the opportunity to launch a clever and a bit didactic if worthwhile anti-cyberbullying campaign. Convenience plays a heavy role. Even the disgruntled bully lurks fully offstage, their identity remaining a complete mystery, with the likeliest potential candidates eliminated and the bullying neatly ending as well.