This story is about an 11-year-old girl named Melanie who lives with her brother Matt the Brat. Melanie is going through a lot of problems. I think the book is good for girls 8-14. This book has very good artwork. This book is also a great book because it can teach you some Spanish and art. It also has very good humor. It is a very good book.

It is about a girl that has a long distance love with a guy named Miguel. Also, she has a girl that is stealing her best friend. Her name is Suze. Also they talk a LOT of Spanish. Next, the cover is really cool with a lot of action. Also she lives in the city.

Melanie is an 11-year-old girl who has an adventure in the big city of Manhattan. Her boyfriend Miguel is coming to New York for a week. Oh no! It was very good. However I recommend it for girls 10 and over.

It is about a girl who lives in the city. She has a boyfriend named Miguel. She also has a younger brother, Matt, her Dad and her Mom and an art teacher. I think it is a very good and detailed book. I loved the cover.

I think Melanie in Manhattan is a good book for kids in 4th-6th grade because the book could help through those years. The book is about a girl named Melanie and the problems she struggles with her friends. Her friends are Cecilia and Suze. Her boyfriend is Miguel. Miguel is a Spanish boyfriend she met in Spain. The boyfriend comes to visit all the way from Spain. There is also a lot of Spanish so if you are learning Spanish you should read it. She hates her brother so she calls him Matt the Brat.

A very good and interesting book. Made for middle-schoolers. Very nice and detailed cover. Lots of things going on. Melanie in Manhattan is the last of the series. There are a few before this book, like Melanie goes Dutch and With Love from Spain. I loved the book Melanie in Manhattan. It also was very funny and interesting.

I think Melanie in Manhattan is an OK book because it has inappropriate things. It is good because the illustrations are amazing. Also I like how it tells you about her life, and when she signs her name when she's done writing in her diary.

As Melanie goes through adventures, author Carol Weston makes it realistic and humourous. Although slightly inappropriate, Carol's pictures and Spanish dialogue make up for it. Her writing makes up for it. Her writing makes it seem like a real diary of an 11-year-old who wishes to be more mature.

This is a good book. This has amazing pictures. I love how Carol Weston has some Spanish in there. However it is a little inappropriate for kids 8 and under. 9 and up it should be a good book. It is about an 11-year-old who is trying to get more mature and has a little brother - Matt the Brat - and is sometimes getting in the way of her crush Miguel. Overall this is a great book.

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Melainie is a very funny character. She has a very strong relationship with her friends. She has two friends. They fight. Melanie is very angry. She has to choose between her friends. She chooses Celia. Her other friend is very mad at her. Soon, her other friends sadness turns into revenge. In this world people have to take hard decisions in life. No ones life is perfect. Just believe in what decision you do.

Melanie Martin is beginning 6th grade and has many new challenges placed upon. Melanie has to find ways to deal with these daily life problems. Melanie in Manhattan has been one of my favorite books that had me laughing along.
Melanie in Manhattan is written in a diary format in the opinion of Melanie. She writes daily about her family and friends. Her best friend Cecily has become friends with the new, stuck up girl, Suze. They spend every minute together and rarely include Melanie. She feels like she's losing her best friend. On Melanie's trip to Spain that summer she met her mom's friend's son and she feels something special for him. They had many fun times together in Spain and Melanie is starting to really miss him. They send each other e-mails and keep in touch. Miguel's uncle has to come to New York for a work trip and has offered to take Miguel along to see Melanie. She couldn't believe what she had heard. She would see him once again. Together they tour New York with Melanie's family and see the great sights. Melanie starts to see the beauty of New York. Things start to change and Melanie isn't sure if Miguel considers her as just a friend or a girlfriend. Melanie likes him but she also has a small crush on Jason, a math whiz in her class. Melanie doesn't know how she feels. She has mixed feelings about everything at this point.
Carol Weston shows the fun-loving character's personality and describes the breath taking tourist attractions in the massive city of New York. Weston has put the teenage perspective in Melanie. Melanie talks and acts like an average middle school girl. When Melanie's mom leads her class on a field trip she says, "It's embarrassing having Mom stand in front of everyone like a teacher," (pg. 12.) All teenagers get embarrassed by their parents at some point or another. Like most siblings, Melanie can also be rude to her younger brother. Throughout the book she calls him, "Matt the Brat." During the book Melanie guides Miguel around New York. Melanie finds herself taking advantage of all the attractions New York has to offer like their museums and the skyscrapers. Miguel says, "New York is marvel," because he has never seen anything like it. He appreciates it the "marvel" New York more than her. As they walk through Central Park, Melanie and her family recognize all of the people enjoying the beautiful day. "Central Park is giant. You could walk all day and not get to see all of it...teams of kids were playing sports, a few mothers were jogging with their babies in strollers... we were in a park surrounded by tall buildings," (pg. 149.)If Melanie lived in a small rural town she could never experience this. She wouldn't get to walk outside late at night and see people walking around because like it says, "New York never sleeps." Melanie couldn't see people outside walking in the park because there aren't many people living in the country. Her closest neighbor would be a mile away.
The book, Melanie in Manhattan was a very funny and enjoyable book. Weston showed creativity in her format choice. She wrote the story in a diary and shows Melanie's real thoughts. She used many different fonts and ended each diary entry with an adjective to describe the entry. For example, Melanie ends with "Romantically Melanie," or "Mathematically Mel." This is a must-read book for all young girls.

As NYC's number one tour guide, I see I have some real competition with Melanie, she sure knows Manhattan. She shows us our city here in a very intetresting yet fun way. Nice going Carol, all the best!
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Great story, love the NYC and art references. I previewed this book before I sent it as a gift and now I will pass it along to all my friends kids. Excited to read more in the series. M in M tackles real tween issues such as changing bodies, first smooch, troubles with friends in a very realistic and honest format. Wish I had Melanie when I was a kid.

All four Melanie books are funny and fun and full of interesting stories about the four places she visits (Italy, Holland, Spain, New York). You can read them in any order, although I liked reading this one after With Love From Spain. Every time I give one of these novels as a present, the girl clamors for more. So lately I've been having amazon send the whole paperback set. Melanie is 10 in the first two books, 11 in the next two, but girls older and younger seem to relate to her pluckiness--and her high anxiety. Whoever said it was easy to be a preteen these days? Maybe one reason the author's voice sounds so authentic is because she is the "Dear Carol" advice columnist for Girls' Life magazine, and real girls write to her all the time. All I know is, these books are winners and they're the kind of books kids love to reread!

All four Melanie books are funny and fun and full of interesting stories about the four places she visits (Italy, Holland, Spain, New York). You can read them in any order, although I liked reading this one after With Love From Spain. Every time I give one of these novels as a present, the girl clamors for more. So lately I've been having amazon send the whole paperback set. Melanie is 10 in the first two books, 11 in the next two, but girls older and younger seem to relate to her pluckiness--and her high anxiety. Whoever said it was easy to be a preteen these days? Maybe one reason the author's voice sounds so authentic is because she is the "Dear Carol" advice columnist for Girls' Life magazine, and real girls write to her all the time. All I know is, these books are winners and they're the kind of books kids love to reread!

Although this is a great book for children - I LOVED reading it myself! Carol Weston does an amazing job of getting into the mind of Melanie Martin - a quirky 5th grader from Manhattan whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of Miguel from Spain... I'd forgotten what it's like to be that age and fret about boys, best friends and annoying little brothers - such a treat! I would definitely recommend this book (and series) to anybody - what other book makes learning about New York, Art and other cultures so much fun?!

I LOVE MELANIE!!!!
And this is the best one yet. I couldn't put it down. Melanie is such a great
character and this book made me really want to see New York City someday. I've
read all four in the series and I definitely recommend them :D.

Melanie is such a funny and wonderful character! I have been giving these books to children for years and they are always well received. The kids love them because Melanie is so moody and spills all to her diary and because Matt the Brat keeps saying things he shouldn't, and the parents thank me because we all know how hard it is to find a series that is truly worth reading. My own kids have learned a lot about art and other cultures through Melanie's mother (an art teacher) and their family travels. I highly recommend Melanie in Manhattan and the previous three books. The author's website is worth a visit too. It's melaniemartin.com.

This is part of a series - I didn't know that, but the book can stand alone anyway. Is it ok to be unimpressed by this book? The cover drew me to it but, overall, I didn't find Melanie or her exploits all that entertaining. Melanie just came back from a trip to Spain where she met Miguel, a boy her age who comes to NYC and visits her there. Melanie shows him the sights and, along the way, we meet her friends and her other `love interest', Justin. The book is written in a diary format, and some of the drawings and rhymes were cute (but got annoying too). I would marginally recommend this book; the age group seems to be lower than the actual intended audience. The book also contained a lot of English/Spainsh words and translations, but did the author really have to spell out each Spanish word (LIKE THIS)? I found that really annoying and condescending too.