How To Be Popular

I like Meg Cabot's writing, I really do. This is the second book I have read by her this past month and I think she really speaks to teenagers. All of can identify with wanting to be popular but doing the one thing that makes us the laughing stock of the school.

How to be Popular by Meg Cabot tells the story of Stephanie Landry who is dying to be popular. Five years earlier, Steph spilled a Big Red Super Big Gulp over Lauren, the most popular girl at high school, and her brand new white skirt. Since that day when anything dokey happens at school people are always saying " Don't pull a Steph !" or " That was so Steph !" or " Don't be such a Steph !". For five long years Stephanie has been enduring this crap from everyone at her school. Now she has found a secret weapon to fight back.... a book titled How to be Popular.

Steph takes the book to heart and plans her first day assault on popularity. Oh she gains popularity, alright, but can she do the hardest thing all of.... Staying popular.

Great book for both boys and girls. I think all teenagers would enjoy this one,

Eggs

Whenever I pick up a book and am thinking about reading it, I always look at the cover art. The book, Eggs, written by Jerry Spinelli, has my mind predicting about this book. First, I look at the cover art. As you can see it is a pretty neat cover. I think back to my teenage years and wonder what a picture of six eggs might represent. Oh no, surely it isn't about egging, Which I know nothing about. :-) Maybe it is about a farm or maybe someone is getting pregnant.. The cover really makes me want to read the book. It is amazing that the title isn't even on the cover, yet I knew what the title was immediately.

David is a nine year old boy whose mother has accidentally died. He lives with his grandmother, while his father, a salesman, comes home on the weekends. David is in so much pain that he refuses to make friends with anyone in his town and is mean to his grandmother. He eventually build a strange friendship with a thirteen year old girl named Primrose. Primrose is sarcastic and hurts almost as much as David. She lives with a flighty psychic mother and a framed picture of her "father." Despite their differences, David and Primrose forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives.

This book grabbed me by the throat and wouldn't let me go... I ached for this two kids, I wanted to move them in with me and wrap my arms around them. the both needed someone to love them.

Pants on Fire

I love Meg Cabot. She writes funny books and I love to laugh. And laugh I did with her newest book, Pants on Fire. Teenage girls will love this book and many will really identify with it.

Katie Ellison is a liar. She lies to her parents, she lies to her brother, she lies to her best friend, she lies to her two boyfriend, who aren't aware of each other and most importantly, she lies to herself. She tells so many lies that she can't keep the lies straight . All of her lying started with that night, four years ago, when Tommy Sullivan was driven out of town.

But now Tommy Sullivan is back and Katie is sure he is out for revenge. Katie will do anything to keep her "dishonest" life in existence, even if it means telling more lies.

Great book. Girls will love it.

Tallgrass

Whenever I read a new author I am always a little apprehensive. " Will I like the writing style or the author's voice?", "Will I get what they are trying to say?," or some other anxiety thought provoking idea. One thing is for sure I really got Sandra Dallas and her new book, Tallgrass. Tallgrass tells the story of a 13 year old girl growing up in a Colorado town that opens up a Japanese internment camp during WWII. This is a town that Rennie does know. Being a child raised in a world of fairness and equality, Rennie has never seen murder, prejudice, mistreatment of other people or being asked to keep secrets. After reading the book, we know that Rennie sees the world from a different perspective.

This book is part historical novel and part thriller. It shows the worst of times and the best of time. The reader gets to see good and evil.

This was my first Sandra Dallas book, but it won't be my last.