The Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA by Ellen Meister

Summary: Maddie, Lisa, and Ruth are all members of the Applewood PTA Public Relations Committee.  They’ve been approached by Lisa’s sister-in-law about using the elementary school as a set in a movie starring George Clooney.  This gets them on the wrong size of Suzanne, President of the PTA, who feels she should handle the project.
The [...]

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Mystery Notes

I wasn’t going to get Paper Towns by John Green because I’ve read some many mixed reviews.
Then I went to Borders, was wandering around and picked the lone copy of it off the shelf and found this note stuck in between pages 114 and 115.

So naturally, I bought it.  Who could resist with a note like that [...]

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Shift by Jennifer Bradbury

Summary:  Chris and Win, short for Winston, are best friends about to graduate from high school.  Chris comes from a typical working class run-of-the-mill family, while Win comes from a very, very wealthy family.  Chris’s parents are very supportive of the things he does, while nothing Win does is good enough for his father.
The boys [...]

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An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Summary: Colin has been dumped 19 times and every one of the dumpers was a Katherine.  Not Catherine, Katie, Kate or Kat, but Katherine.  To make matters worse, child prodigy Colin doesn’t think he will ever grow up to be a genius and have a Eureka! moment.
Depressed and unsure of what to do, Colin and [...]

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Avalon High by Meg Cabot

Summary: Ellie Harris is being forced to move from Minnesota to Washington DC for a year with her parents.  At first she’s upset, but then her best friend Nancy reminds her that this is a chance to reinvent herself.
Ellie soon finds her new house isn’t so bad and she spends the summer floating in the [...]

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Confusing

I think it’s confusing that these two books have the same title and similar colors on the cover:

 
I think I read a review for the first book – about life after a major disaster – and then went to the library and picked out the second book – a mystery about a missing person.
Seeing the [...]

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Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl is back for his sixth adventure!
Summary:  Angeline Fowl is dying.  But no doctor can figure out what is killing her.  After his last adventure, Artemis was left with traces of magic in his body.  He tries to heal his mother, but the magic only seems to make her condition worsen. 
Artemis is forced to [...]

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Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

I do not even know where to begin to write a summary for this book.  I’ve tried for about two weeks.  This isn’t going to be pretty.
So, it’s 1985.  The world is not one that we are very familiar with.  Crime in big cities is at an all time high and there is a real [...]

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how to be bad by e. lockhart, sarah mlynowski, lauren myracle

Jesse and Vicks are best friends who tell each other everything.  But things are starting to change.  They are both keeping secrets from each other.
When Jesse shows up at the Waffle House and suggests she and Vicks go on a road trip to visit Vicks’ boyfriend, Vicks’ actually contemplates saying no.  Jesse’s been so uptight [...]

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Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: The New Girl by Meg Cabot

I wish I could make fireworks blast and a parade go across the screen.  This review is long overdue.
When we last left Allie Finkle she had just moved into a big, old, creepy fixer-upper house that possibly had a zombie hand living in the attic.
We pick up right where we left off and Allie is [...]

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