Ages 16+
I recently opened a Pinterest account for fun and was playing around with it. I wanted to learn more about the ins and outs of Pinterest, and I definitely did! I would recommend this book for anyone who is just starting out with Pinterest and wants to get more acquainted with the site and how it works. Very helpful!
Grades 3-5
Ten Rules for Living with My Sister by Ann M. Martin is a book about a 9-year-old girl named Pearl and her 13-year-old sister Lexie. Lexie and Pearl fight like all sisters do, of course. Most recently, Lexie hung a sign on her door that lets Pearl know she’s not welcome. The story is told from Pearl’s perspective. She loves to make lists that compare herself with her sister. Room? Lexie: neat and Pearl: sloppy. Lipstick? Lexie: yes and Pearl: no. Read Ten Rules for Living with My Sister to find out if Pearl and Lexie can ever get along.
Ages 18+
I loved this book! I read it while I was at the tail end of my college career and just thought that it was so on point with the stuff we have to deal with when going to college. I wasn’t a drinker, so I didn’t relate to those stories as much, but I thought they were hilarious nonetheless. Aaron Karo had an email column from 1997-2012 where he wrote many of these stories for his friends and followers. They are now on his website. I am so glad he made that column into a book that everyone can read. While Karo’s experiences will not be the same for all kids, I recommend this to every college student!
Ages 18+
This may be, quite honestly, the funniest book I’ve ever read. This book was written by a mother who has young children and loves them very much. However, she uses this book to complain about her kids and highlight all the stuff that sucks about being a parent. I’m not a parent myself, but I thought this book was hilarious! It’s definitely on the raunchy side, please be warned, but if you don’t mind the f-bomb sprinkled here and there, I totally recommend it! Oh, and by the way, the book was born from a blog called Baby Sideburns so feel free to check it out!
Ages 18+
This is the first book I read by this author a few years ago and absolutely loved it! It is sexy, fast paced, full of adventure – adventure in Paris, no less. Charlotte and her fiance Jeff are ready to start their new life together in Paris. Then Charlotte finds Jeff’s dating profile…correction: three dating profiles. She heads to Paris alone and heartbroken. She decides to start a blog and teach women how to date like a man in the City of Love. Charlotte’s plan is to sleep around with no commitment. Then she meets a guy she gives the nickname “Half-Naked French Hottie” on her blog, and her mission to stay unattached crumbles. Can Charlotte stay on track? Or does the new man in her life take over?
Ages 0-7
A lovely children’s book about trying to fit in, Exclamation Mark follows the main character – an exclamation mark – and his journey to transform himself to be the same as his friends. Standing tall beside a bunch of periods, he realizes how dramatically he stands out. One day, he meets a question mark and realizes that he should learn to be happy to be himself even if he doesn’t fit in with the crowd.
Ages 18+
Waverly Bryson is doing very well for herself: Besides being engaged to her gorgeous boyfriend, her Honey Shop business has really taken off, and she very much enjoys shooting her Honey On Your Mind segments on the ever popular T.V. show, Love, Wendy. However, Waverly has to deal with every bride-to-be’s worst nightmare: planning the wedding with her future mother-in-law. She is also trying to run her business with a very pregnant business partner who is planning to leave. Will Waverly be able to pull it off and have it all?
Grades 9-12
Kristin Lattimer is your average teenage girl: she has good friends, a boyfriend and a loving father who supports her. Then a visit to the doctor changes her life forever. She finds out she is intersex, which means that she has male chromosomes, and male “parts,” but still looks like a girl on the outside. Kristin wonders if she really is a girl. Is she a boy? Or none of the above?
Grades 4-6
If you’re looking for a great mystery with a little bit of funk, Smells Like Dog is it. Meet Homer Pudding, a farm boy who loves hunting treasure, just like his Uncle Drake. Everything is perfect in Homer’s world until Uncle Drake disappears into thin air, and Homer is left with his prized possession, his dog, Dog. Can Homer continue his uncle’s legacy and find the most coveted pirate treasure in the world? Read Smells Like Dog to find out.
Grades 3-5
Katie Friedman’s favorite singer is Jane Plantero from the band Plain Jane. Her boyfriend, Nareem, scores tickets to a Plain Jane concert just as she is about to break up with him. She goes to the concert and meets Jane, and later accidentally texts Nareem that she doesn’t like him anymore. That is when she decides to give up her entire cell phone for a week along with ten friends in exchange for Jane signing an original song by Katie herself. Can Katie and her friends last a whole week without their cell phones? Read Katie Feldman Gives Up Texting (And Lives to Tell About It) to find out!
