Along for the Ride

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Even though I am old-I can still relate to the 17 year old character in this book. Really, reading young adult books makes me feel like a teenager, of course until my kids start demanding dinner. Anyway, Auden heads to the beach to spend the summer with her dad, his young wife and new baby. Auden is a late bloomer but no fear there is a cute boy in the town who is willing to help her on her quest to do all the things a 17 year old should do or should have done already. It is a sweet, clean story. My mom would approve because there are not pages of x-rated stuff.



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Brian Selznick wrote The Invention of Hugo Cabret a book told mostly through illustrations and some text.  It is amazing if you have not read it yet.  Wonderstruck is told similarly with two stories being told.  One story takes place in New York during the 1970's and it is told through text.  The second story is from 50 years earlier and is told through illustrations.  Check out this trailer.  It is so much better than mine-but I'm not Scholastic.

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

Savvy

Savvy by Ingrid Law.

I loved this book. If you could get a savvy on your 13th birthday what would it be. Think about it. Basically, anytime you feel emotional your savvy will make itself known and probably cause problems for you and everyone around you. Like mom always said, it is all fun and games until someone get hurt.

Gimme a Call by Sarah Mlynowski

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I don't know if I would want to talk to my fourteen year old self as an 18 year old but Devi does. Devi's boyfriend of the last four years-all of high school-just broke up with her to find who he is without her. Sounds like typically teen drama but it's not. Devi tries to help her friends and herself by telling her fourteen year old self what to do. Frosh-14 year old self-does whatever Devi tells her with some unexpected consequences due to the whole time travel aspect. I couldn't put it down and it was fun.



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