By:Wendy Mass
genre: fiction
rate: 4 stars
When Tara gets in trouble at school she has to go live with her cousins instead of going on vacation to Madagascar with her parents. Then when she meets a woman with a duck shaped birthmark her world is turn upside down. Now with her new friends she has to get 13 gifts by her 13 birthday or something bad might happen to her.
I Rated 13 gifts by: Wendy Mass 4 stars because it starts off making it seem like realistic fiction but shortly switches genres to fiction. This crazy and surprising book just makes you keep reading more. Also with the unique twist and turns and a "bubbling" surprise ending this is one of the best books Wendy Mass has written.
-Kayla
COMING OUT SEPTEMBER 2011
Title: The Summer I Turned Pretty
Author: Jenny Han
Publisher: Simon and Shuester
Age Recommendation: 12 and Up
Star Rating: 5/5
Plot: It had always just been summer for Belly. No romance, no worries, nothing but sun and surfing on Cousins Beach. With only her mother and her friend Susannah along with her sons Jeremiah and Conrad, summer at the beach was all Belly had to look forward to. That is until things began to get complicated, until the summer Belly turned pretty to both of Susannah's boys. Suddenly torn between dark and tortured Conrad, who Belly has always secretly loved, and cherub-like Jeremiah, Belly will have to make her desicion carefully, in risk of her heart being broken.
Review: From page one I was attached to Conrad. Page two, I was hooked on Jeremiah. I can't imagine the struggle Belly had when choosing between the Fisher boys. Jenny Han set up the perfect novel; with two boys who fall, in thier own ways, in love with a childhood friend. Backset with drama and heartbreak due to the loss of a family member (shh, I can't tell whom), both boys need Belly and she wants them both. In every way possible, The Summer I Turned Pretty was written for success and emotion.
Rachel
These are some great books to read over the summer!
- The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
- Matched by Ally Condie
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Twilight saga and The Host by Stephanie Meyers
- The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman
- Before I Fall by Louren Oliver
- Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
Happy Summer!!!
-erica '
By:Wendy Mass
