Summer Jackson Grown Up by Teresa Harris is a story about a little girl named Summer Jackson who thinks being seven is no fun and wants to be grown up. The next day she decides she is going to dress like a grown up and act like the way she thinks a grown up acts, including having a job as a consultant like her mother. She goes to school, gives children advice, and takes their money. When she gets home, her parents decide to let her be a grown up and she realizes it is not as fun as she thinks and decides to be a kid again.

I like this book because the pictures are very colorful and bright. It also has things that a kid in todays world can relate to, such as a cell phone.

This book can be used in teaching kids that being a grown up involves a lot more than just having fun. It involves a lot of responsibilities that young kids do not realize grown ups have to do.

Appealing, precocious character. ( )

Summer Jackson wants to be a grown up just like her Mama and Daddy. She starts wearing heels, using a cellphone and wearing grown up clothes. Summer thinks her plans at school are going well until her parents receive a phone call from the principal. That night Mama and Daddy decide they will let summer be a grown up. Being a grown up included cleaning up the dishes, but summer isn't too happy with that. In the end Summer realizes that she wants to be a normal seven year old. This story was very cute. I also enjoyed the pictures. Throughout a child's life they feel that they want to be a grown up but then they realize being a kid is way better. ( )

Summer Jackson is a seven year old girl who wants to be a grown-up. She decides to wear grown-up clothes, sunglasses, and use a cell phone. When Summer's parents get a phone call from the school Principle for taking money from classmates, her parents decide to switch roles with her. Her parents act like kids and allow Summer to take care of all the grown-up chores in the house. Summer quickly realizes that it's much more fun to be a sever year old. ( )

Summer decides she is tired of being a kid; she decides she is a grownup and she wants to be treated like a grownup. But Summer’s ideas of what a grownup does (wear sunglasses everywhere, get a cell phone that rings all the time, wear very high heels with very pointy toes) are quite different that the ideas Summer’s parents have of what a grownup does (clear the table, eating grownup food), and Summer decides it might not be so bad to be a kid after all.
Love the beautiful African-American family in this story. Very nice.

“When Mama and Daddy finish eating, they get right up. They don’t move their plates or anything! ‘Who’s going to clear the table?’ I ask.

Mama and Daddy shrug.

‘Someone has to do it or else we’ll get ants.’

‘I think we’ll leave it to the grown-up,’ Daddy says.

‘But---‘

I really don’t like ants. So I clear off the dinner table and put the dishes in the sink. This isn’t fair. I’m just a---grown-up! That’s what I am.” ( )