Just by looking at the cover of this book, you might expect a total fluff book about girls and fashion, which it was to some extent. Yes, it is a typical middle school girl book, complete with a new preppy school, mean girls, first boyfriends, etc., etc. But the author did something with this b...
Haley doesn't know what to do! Her dad got a new girlfriend and Haley doesn't know if she likes her or not but something Haley does know is that her little sister Chloe loves her! Haley is meeting her dads new girlfriend because they are going on a apple picking trip and Haley is a little nervous...
Confectionately Yours by Lisa Papademetriou is a book set that stars a middle school girl named Hayley who has regular middle school girl problems, like friends who turn on her, new friends, and Boys, but Hayley has a special thing, with cupcakes, she bakes them, she frosts them, and she eats the...
Review to comeAt First Sight: Hayley is still trying to adjust to all the changes in her life, like moving in with her grandma and having to share a room with her little sister Chloe, like the fact her dad has a girlfriend and it's getting pretty serious; and her two longest friendships seem to b...
Seventh grade is almost over for Amy Flowers, but relationships are still confusing. Amy tries to apologize to Fiona, but ends up literally in a mess. Field Day isn't much better. Her "is-it-really-a-date-or-are-we-just-hanging-out" time with Scott afterwards would have been more romantic if she ...
This book felt a bit choppy to me. I loved the fact that it was sometimes told from the male character's pov, but it wasn't consistently from any one character's pov and it changed mid chapter sometimes so I had to think about who was talking. I never really figured out what was going on, but onc...
When I was looking for books read for this month, I originally thought that M or F? was about gender identity. So when I read the book's summary I was pleasantly surprised to find that that wasn't the case at all (not that I have anything against books that deal with transgender issues; I still h...
I read this book before I sent it to my niece for her birthday. This way I hope to be able to talk to her about it. It was a very cute story that included fantasy adventures with fairies in a land that is well known to most people who were once kids, Neverland. The dialog was well written for the...
True, the family had thanked her profusely and seemed really happy about it. But whenever Leila went out to the backyard to pet the silly thing, it would bang its head against her leg. It was pretty annoying. Leila had come out to the front to get away from her, leaving her tied up near a bunch o...
Shaun Walters, son of Mary Walters, had locked himself in his room, and was heard destroying the furniture therein. Ms. Walters had her son taken in for emergency psychiatric evaluation.… The minute the Gremlin pulled into the driveway, Will darted out of his room. It was almost two in the mornin...
Tropical Storm Bonita didn’t cause as much damage as forecasted or feared, but it still packed high winds and waves that have left the beaches riddled with detritus. “Our economy depends on the tourist trade,” Mayor Hutchinson read from a prepared statement last night at a press conference. “When...