The Magnificent Mya Tibbs:
Spirit Week Showdown
by Crystal Allen
Allen, C. (2016). The magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit week showdown. New York, NY: Balzer + Bray.
Fourth grader Mya Tibbs is super excited. Spirit week is coming and she just knows that her and her super popular best friend Naomi are going to win the grand prize...VIP tickets to the fall festival! She even made a pinky promise with Naomi that they would be spirit week partners and she would do anything she could to help Naomi win. Of course things don't go quite as planned when the students are asked to draw the name of their spirit week partner out of a hat and Mya selects none other than the school bully, Mean Connie Tate. When Mean Connie flat out refuses to switch partners, Mya is stuck, and now Naomi is telling everyone that Mya broke a pinky promise and is getting them to call her "Mya Tibbs Fibs." But what could she do? Did Naomi really expect her stand up to the school bully?! Mya is devastated and determined to do anything she can to win back her best friend. Reluctantly, at the teacher's insistence, Mya begins spending time with Connie planning for each day of spirit week. As the two girls spend more and more time together, Mya begins to realize some things; first of all she hasn't actually seen or heard Connie do even one mean thing, and two, her and Connie actually have quite a bit in common. As nice as Connie seems, Mya still wants to reclaim her spot as Naomi's best friend, even if that means betraying her new "friend." When Mya reveals her and Connie's plans for spirit week outfits to Naomi to give her an edge, she just knows that Naomi will welcome her back with open arms. But when Naomi threatens to tell Connie of Mya's betrayal, unless Mya can make her brother, Nugget, like her, Mya starts to think that maybe her and Naomi were never really best friends after all. Will Naomi ever accept Mya back? How will Connie react when she finds out her partner spilled their secrets to her arch nemesis? Find out all the valuable lessons Mya learns about friendship when you read 2017-2018 Texas Bluebonnet Nominee The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown. Students in grades 3-6 will adore this book.
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