About this book:
“Princess Millie can’t think of a better way to celebrate her birthday week than spending it at Circle D Dude Ranch in the beautiful Colorado mountains. When Millie meets her dream horse at the ranch, she’s confident this is going to be the best birthday of her life! With endless trail rides, cattle round-ups, and rodeo competitions, what’s a girl not to love?
But when Makayla meets a new friend, Millie starts feeling left out. To make matters worse, this friend just so happens to be…a boy! Has Makayla gone boy crazy? What happened to her endless love for horses?
Millie is determined to get her best friend back…and win the rodeo competition while she’s at it! Can their friendship survive the wild, wild west? Or does one boy possess the power to break the M&M’s apart…forever?”
Series: Book #4 in the “Chestnut Academy” series. Reviews of Book #1, Book #2, and Book #3 Here! (Connected to the author’s other series, “The Tales of Tarsurella”, but does not have to be read first or together.)
Spiritual Content- A few Scriptures are quoted, read, talked about, & thought over; Bible reading; Prayers & Thanking God; Mentions of God; Mentions of Bibles & Bible reading; Mentions of prayers, praying, & thanking God; A couple mentions of being Christ-like and a Christian; A couple mentions of being blessed;
*Note: A couple mentions of luck.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: an ‘oh my golly’, a ‘stupid’, six ‘dumb’s, and calling a boy a ‘jerk’ (and other forms of it) a few times; Eye rolling, snapping at others, yelling, & bickering; Overhearing a mother berate her son’s acting abilities and pressuring him; Some boys vs. girls bickering and taunting; Dumping water on someone as a prank (and later apologizing); *Spoilers* Halfway through, Millie and Makayla give each other the silent treatment and end their friendship after accusing each other of being a rotten friend (due to Makayla spending time with a boy instead of Millie); Because of this a “dark and twisted and terrible” part of Millie wants to see Makayla feel “just as miserable as she [has been]” and wants to win a competition; Millie asks God for forgiveness shortly after as it was horrible of her to want that; The girls have a conversation and both apologize for being selfish and ask to be friends again *End of Spoilers*; Mentions of mean/snooty girls; Mentions of lies & lying; Mentions of rumors; Mentions of poop/manure; A few mentions of jealousy;
*Note: Millie and Makayla have very little adult-supervision at the ranch by Makayla’s father (including giving his daughter permission to hang out with a boy); When Millie comments on the cows at the ranch being cute, her friend says that they are all “destined to be hamburgers” and Millie says “that’s so cruel!” and she may never eat a hamburger again (but later eats one); Mentions of brand names (Mario Kart, Cheez-Its, Goldfish, Twizzlers, M&M’s, Pocky, & Elmer’s Glue); A mention of Dolly Parton.
Sexual Content- Two new side characters have a crush on a celebrity and call him a “dreamboat” (which Millie and her friend shudder in disgust and go “blech” when overhearing this comment and seeing the girls freak out and scream over the boy; Millie’s friend calls them “airheads”); Millie’s friend, Makayla, however starts to sigh over the boy as well and starts spending time with him, which makes Millie feel left out and missing her friend; Millie doesn’t want to believe that her friend likes the boy in the “mushy, gushy, disgustingly romantic way” and prays for God to help her friend “snap out of this”; Millie and Makayla have an argument about the boy where Millie says boys are gross and she would know because she has brothers, but Makayla says they are allowed to like boys and Millie adds that if “you’re not getting married until you’re at least twenty-one, what’s the point?”; *Spoilers* Makayla writes a love song for the boy and he laughs at her attempt, so Millie dumps water on him which makes Makayla even more mad at her; Makayla learns that the boy was lying to her about writing his new song for her and is very hurt; Makayla and Millie become friends again and Makayla says she’s “swearing off boys forever”; The girls reenforce their rule of “no boys allowed” in their friend group *End of Spoilers*; Mentions of girls acting in a “foolish manner” and obsessing over a boy & being boy-crazy; Mentions of crushes & liking a boy; Mentions of “mushy love songs” and writing love songs;
A couple mentions of heartbreak; A mention of Makayla’s dad saying he wasn’t ready for his daughter to be “running around with boys”.
-Princess Millie of Tarsurella, age 10-11
P.O.V. of Millie
145 pages
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My personal Rating-
I’m not really a fan of boy-crazy plots in middle-grade books, so this book was a bit of a miss for me personally, but I do think it could be a decent option for a young girl who has a friend that’s maybe liking a boy for the first time and it’s changing their friendship. I appreciated that Millie apologized to those she didn’t treat well in her moments of anger/jealousy as it showed growth from her.
See y’all on Friday with a new review!
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
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