Title:
Karma Bites Author: Stacy Kramer
Genre: YA; Fantasy
Pages: 348
Time to complete: 1 day
Book Summary:
Life
seems to have it in for Franny Flanders.
Her best friends aren’t speaking, her parents just divorced, and her hippie grandmother has moved in. The only karma Franny’s got is bad karma.
Then Franny gets her hands on a box of magic recipes that could fix all of her problems. It could even change the world! Finally, life is looking up.
But Franny is about to learn that magic and karma aren’t to be played with. When you mess with the universe, it can bite back in unexpected ways.
Ouch!
Her best friends aren’t speaking, her parents just divorced, and her hippie grandmother has moved in. The only karma Franny’s got is bad karma.
Then Franny gets her hands on a box of magic recipes that could fix all of her problems. It could even change the world! Finally, life is looking up.
But Franny is about to learn that magic and karma aren’t to be played with. When you mess with the universe, it can bite back in unexpected ways.
Ouch!
Review:
Karma Bites was THE funnest read I've had in a long time. It's definitely geared towards a younger crowd, ten to fourteen year olds, but I'm like 21 so who cares. All the typical middle school players are there; the jocks, the cheerleaders, the band geeks, the smart geeks, the loners and a few special people that can go back and forth between the groups. That's what the main character of the novel, Franny, is, a floater. And the stress of it is making her crazy even before the first day of seventh grade.
So
when her very interesting and well traveled Grandma gives her a
glimpse at a magic box, Franny sees a way to "fix" things.
Give a seventh grade girl with an imagination a little bit of magic
and sit back and watch the mayhem begin.
It feels like Franny's world is in a free fall from the first magic she uses. It all starts when the hair dye she's using turns her hair bright orange. Her mother is having a meltdown and can't help. So she turns to her eccentric grandmother who pulls something out of her closet and pours it on her hair making it go back to it's original color. But, it was a magic potion and the side effects make Franny say exactly what she feels. She talks to people that aren't socially acceptable and talks back to a teacher which results in her being sent to the principal, a first for her. She demands answers from her grandmother when she gets home and finds out about a secret box with magic recipes she just can't keep her hands off of it. She doesn't seem to remember her grandmother's warnings about messing with the universe as she fixes this and that. But all her plans seem to go awry and it takes someone powerful to put things back in place. Through it all Franny is trying to juggle friends, cliques, seventh grade, divorced parents, lies, magic, unraveling friendships and boy troubles and it all becomes a big complicated mess.
I really didn't want this to end. It was fun to read and remember what we called junior high school and the things that seemed so big back then that are so small now in comparison. I wanna go back. I'd rather take on the cheerleaders than the bank any day of the week! I recommend this book from preteens to anyone that wants an easy read about middle school and how much trouble a girl with a little bit of magic can make. I'd definitely read this again.
It feels like Franny's world is in a free fall from the first magic she uses. It all starts when the hair dye she's using turns her hair bright orange. Her mother is having a meltdown and can't help. So she turns to her eccentric grandmother who pulls something out of her closet and pours it on her hair making it go back to it's original color. But, it was a magic potion and the side effects make Franny say exactly what she feels. She talks to people that aren't socially acceptable and talks back to a teacher which results in her being sent to the principal, a first for her. She demands answers from her grandmother when she gets home and finds out about a secret box with magic recipes she just can't keep her hands off of it. She doesn't seem to remember her grandmother's warnings about messing with the universe as she fixes this and that. But all her plans seem to go awry and it takes someone powerful to put things back in place. Through it all Franny is trying to juggle friends, cliques, seventh grade, divorced parents, lies, magic, unraveling friendships and boy troubles and it all becomes a big complicated mess.
I really didn't want this to end. It was fun to read and remember what we called junior high school and the things that seemed so big back then that are so small now in comparison. I wanna go back. I'd rather take on the cheerleaders than the bank any day of the week! I recommend this book from preteens to anyone that wants an easy read about middle school and how much trouble a girl with a little bit of magic can make. I'd definitely read this again.
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