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Booklist - 11/15/2015 *Starred Review* Energetic and enthusiastic, Cleo’s passion for starting businesses sometimes gets her in trouble and strains her relationship with her best friend, Caylee Ortega. Fifth-grader Cleopatra Edison Oliver, CEO, is a bubbling fountain of ideas. Her tooth-pulling business is a good one, but taking a Nerf gun to school for the purpose is not. Making a YouTube video of her little brother, her first customer, without telling her parents, was also a mistake. Caught up in her business plans, Cleo ignores Caylee’s family problems. It takes a chance comment by her idol, TV businesswoman Fortune A. Davies, to prompt the budding entrepreneur to make things right. Frazier adds depth to Cleo’s family story by making Cleo and her younger brothers African American children adopted into a family in which the mother is white, allowing the author to explore some aspects of nontraditional families. Though this much-loved child is comfortable about sharing the facts of her adoption, a classmate’s mean comment about her birth mother giving her away causes Cleo to lose control, surprising even herself with her blinding rage. The first-person narrative moves along quickly, and gray-scale illustrations head each chapter. Cleo brings a welcome burst of diversity to elementary fiction, and readers will be charmed by this utterly unforgettable character. - Copyright 2015 Booklist.

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