Mallory Goes Green! (Mallory (Darby Creek))
After Mallory becomes class representative for the school’s Green Fair, she adopts a leadership style that includes issuing tickets to friends and family members who waste energy. Hurt when her classmates reject her plan for their Green Fair project, she gradually realizes that she needs to listen to others’ ideas. The first-person story realistically portrays the self-pity, justification, and misery that Mallory endures before she begins to see her actions from a different point of view. Like other books in the Mallory series, this features large type, widely spaced lines, and stylized illustrations. Good chapter-book fare. Grades 2-5. --Carolyn Phelan