Moxie Roosevelt has always had a life far too ordinary and boring for her crazy name. When she goes to the Eaton Academy for Girls boarding school on a music scholarship, she decides this is the perfect time to try out being someone different, including Mysterious Earth Goddess (MEG), Hale and Hearty Sports Enthusiast (HHSE), and Detached, Unique, Coolly Knowing Individual (DUCKI). She keeps a notebook detailing which personality she tried out with different people, and after a few weeks she realizes keeping up with all of this is EXHAUSTING! When the notebook goes missing, she realizes that she's got to figure out who she really is... and maybe that's little bits of all of the other "people" she's been. Moxie is a funny, delightful character who makes a lot of mistakes "reinventing" herself, and also makes some good friends along the way. Lots of humor and fun, good for 6th grade and up. ( )

Moxie Roosevelt is headed to boarding school. Unfortunately she has no self-confidence and decides this is the time she becomes all that she can be. Unfortunately she can’t seem to settle on one particular personality. Moxie has set out to reinvent herself and finds herself keeping a journal to keep track of all of her personalities. She is one person with this friend and someone else with another. In the end she has to do some real introspection to figure out the real Moxie was inside all along. This was another of those books that just didn’t flip my switch at first. It was so funny watching her try to keep it all together that I ended up really enjoying it. ( )

On her first day of boarding school, a thirteen-year-old girl who feels boring and invisible decides to change her personality to match her unusual name. ( )