I love the characters in Much Ado About Anne because the characters have so many different traits. You could relate to almost all of them. There isn’t the “sports girl” and the “funny girl” and the “smart girl”. In this book, the sports girl is also funny and the fashion girls also care about ...
The book Dear Pen Pal is a series that is actually called The Mother and Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick. This book is about five young girls that are best friends. They do a book club with their moms. The book has a lot of fights, drama, and surprises. This book may be getting you ...
This is the fourth book in the mother daughter book club series. Emma's family switches houses with a family in England for a year, There is a mean girl, named Annabelle who is making Emma's stay in England miserable. The book club decides to start Pies and Prejudice in hopes of bring Emma back. ...
I picked this up from a box at work, mostly because the cute title amused me. It is probably a good book for tweens and young teens. I think it pretty accurately captures the weird mindset of young teens, which is probably why I didn't love it, actually. The young characters aren't catty, exactly...
When Cat’s mother (an astronaut) is sent to the International Space Station, Cat is forced to live with her father, stepmother, and two stepsiblings. Geoffrey is just three and not a problem for Cat, but Olivia (aka Miss Prissy Pants) is the same age as Cat and the two immediately dislike each ot...
It's time for bed, but the mouse baby isn't done playing yet. With Daddy finding and baby mouse hiding, they have quite an adventure before bedtime. What I thought: Cute! The repetitive text will appeal to children. The story is sweet and I love the illustrations. They're so colorful and filled w...
This is a sweet family/small town mystery. Ms Frederick has smoothly addressed a slew of issues in the book; bullying, military life, aftermath of life changing injury, survivor guilt, grief, moving, running small businesses, being new in town, the joys of birding, being different, and a fun myst...
The book club is about to get a makeover.... Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy is late for hockey practice, Emma's already read every book in existence, and Jess is missing her mother too much to care, the new book club is scheduled to meet every month. But what begins as a ...
Each held a fencing foil (made from the tip of a broken knitting needle) at the ready in his paw. Each wore a fencing mask (cleverly fashioned from bits of mesh from an old screen door) that obscured his face. Clack-clack! Clack-clack! Clack-clack-clack-CLACK! The knitting-needle foils darted thi...
Cha Cha asked Jasmine, as the three of us headed back upstairs to our classroom. Lucas trailed a few feet behind. “Franklin?” said Jasmine dreamily. “No! Calhoun, duh,” said Cha Cha. She looked over at me and rolled her eyes. Jasmine’s case of Franklin-on-the-brain was starting to drive us both n...
snarled Stilton Piccadilly, his red eyes blazing at Roquefort Dupont. Dupont’s tail thrashed angrily to and fro at this insult. “How was I supposed to know that blasted Goldenleaf brat would show up?” “Security would be tight, you promised!” the British rat continued, pacing back and forth across...