Jenni

My goal for this summer is to read 10 books!
1. //Thirteen plus One// by: Lauren Myracle This book is part of a series that I have already read. Winnie turns 14 and is going into highschool. For her birthday, her boyfreind Lars gives her a Starbucks card with a picture of the beach on it. She was so disappointed because she wanted a cupcake with a candle that he would give to her during lunch. During the summer Winnie goes to a turtle camp at the beach with her friend Dina. Winnie's other friend Cinnamon is mad because she is not going. Cinnamon ends up going and surprising them when they got there. At the ending of camp, summer is almost over. Lars surprised Winnie with a cupcake because she told him she wanted one! Now Winnie is happy and ready for highschool! 2. //Hope was Here// by: Joan Bauer Hope's mom didn't want to take care of her when she was a baby, so she gave Hope to her sister Addie. Her mom named her Tulip, but Addie let Hope change her own name. So Hope named herself Hope! Addie and Hope make a living in the kitchen. Addie is a chef and makes delicious food for restruants. Hope is a waitress at the restruants. Every time Hope has to move, she writes //Hope Was Here// really tiny somewhere in the place she's leaving. When she moved from New York City to a small town in Wisconsin, the owner of the restruant had leukemia. His name was G.T. and he decided to run for mayor because he couldn't work at the restruant anymore due to his illness. G.T. is running against a man who was already mayor before. He will do or say anything to win. Addie and G.T. got married and G.T. became mayor. Soon G.T. died because of his leukemia. Hope would always remember him becuase he was her father and the best one she could ever have. 3. //The Clique: Boys R Us// by: Lisi Harrison The Pretty Committee gets split up because Alicia wants to be an Alpha and creates her own Clique. Alicia's Clique is a boy-girl one though and it "never works out". Massie no longer has a Clique. So makes her own by buying models and bringing them to school with her. She has to tell them what to say because they have to be just perfect. Claire doesn't want to choose sides so she stays in the middle. Claire has to get the Pretty Committee back together. Alicia decides to have a party and so does Massie, who is having one for the homeless. Massie's party is going to be a fashion show and they will be having models going down the run way. They need to have escorts though so they get to have "cute" highschool boys escort them down the runway. Alicia and Massie's parties crash, so the Pretty Committee reunites and everybody is happily ever after! 4. //The babysitters Club: Dawn and the Impossible Three// by: Ann M. Martin Dawn moved to Stoneybrook, Connecticut and joins the Babysitters Club which is a business that Kristy made up. The Girls, Cluadia (who is the vice president of the club because they use her room and phone to have the meetings in), Kristy (president), Mary Anne (secretary), Stacey (treasurer), and Dawn make up the Babysitters Club. Kristy is not very nice to Dawn because she used to be Mary Anne's only best friend. Now Dawn is Mary Annes other best friend. The Babysitters Club gets a new customer: the Barrett's. Mrs. Barrett has just been in a divorce and her house is a mess. Her Kids, like Dawn and every time she babysits, she does all the house work and straightens everything out. Mrs. Barrett never tells Dawn anything when she leaves; not even that her baby Marnie is allergic to chocolate! One day, Dawn asked Kristy if she wanted to come over after school. She was trying to make so that Kristy would like her. When they got there, they had a snack and then went into the barn. Dawn showed Kristy how to swing off a rope and land in the hay. After that, Kristy and Dawn became friends and Dawn became the Alternate Officer ( the person who takes up somebodys job if their gone) of the Babysitters Club. Dawn told Mrs.Barrett that she couldn't babysit for Buddy, Suzi, and Marnie (Mrs.Barrett's three kids) anymore. Dawn was doing too much house work and the kids depended on her more than their mother. Mrs.Barrett told her that she would pay more for housework and try to keep her house more in shape. They had a deal and everything started to work out. //5. Holes// by: Louis Sachar Stanley Yelnats has to go to Camp Greenlake because he “stole” a famous ballplayers shoes who was going to sell them to get money for the homeless shelter. You can either go to Camp Greenlake or jail. Camp Greenlake is a place that used to be a lake but dried up and it hasn’t rained for over a hundred years- where they have to dig holes to “build character”. It turns out that they have to dig holes because the warden is trying to find the treasure that Kissin’ Kate Barlow (the most feared outlaw hundreds of years ago) buried… There are many adventures in this story and I recommend it to everyone because it’s a very interesting and great book!

6. //The Wizard of Oz// by: Tim Burton (I think?) I’m sure everyone knows the story of the Wizard of Oz. My mom bought this book at Barnes and Noble and it’s a chapter book not a kid’s version (just in case you are wondering). Dorothy gets caught in a cyclone and gets blown away from Kansas to Munchkin Land. She has to go find the Wizard of Oz so he can get her back home. On the way, she meets a Scarecrow (who wants a brain), Tin man (who wants a heart), and the cowardly Lion (who wants courage). There are many adventures along the way but too many to tell. You will have to read the story yourself! 7. How I Survived Middle School: Cheat Sheet by: Nancy Krulik Jenny McAfee takes a quiz on honesty on the website [|www.middleschoolsurvival.com]. According to the website, Jenny is an honest person. The annual statewide history test challenge at Joyce Kilmer Middle School has never had a finalist. But now there is and it just so happens to be two of her best friends! But one of them “wasn’t very smart”. So the Pops (in other words popular) start a rumor that she cheated. It turns out that her friend really did make the finalists but did not cheat. The reason that she didn’t do well in school was because she had a problem doing regular work so they just constructed her work differently. She really was very smart! 8. //How I Survived Middle School: P.S. I Really Like You// by: Nancy Krulik Jenny has been receiving notes from a secret admirer. Every note ended with //P.S. I really like you//. Two of her friends Rachel and Felicia are in a huge fight and everyone is taking sides. One morning on the bus, Addie, one of the Pops (an exclusive group otherwise known as popular, who were very snobby) overheard Jenny talking to her friends about her secret admirer. Addie went over to her friends after they got off and started whispering to them. When they were in the school building, Addie and her posse came up to Jenny and started teasing her about the letters. Dana, another pop made up a mean letter and ended with from your secret admirer. All the pops laughed and Dana said “And don’t forget P.S. I really like you.” Now Jenny knew that the Pops were her “secret admirer”. Jenny ended up getting her friends back together. But one day, somebody had put a tube of sample perfume in her backpack and it spilled. It turned out that Lisa’s (one of Jenny’s friends) brother had put it in there because he liked her! 9. //This Lullaby// by: Sara Dessen Remy’s Father has written a song for her called //This Lullaby//. But she doesn’t even know him because he left after she was born. Remy and her mom- who is a writer and writes romantic stories- went to a car place to buy a new car. The owner and her ended up dating and Don (the owner) proposed and they were getting married (this was Remy’s moms fifth marriage). When Remy went to Don’s office to do something to organize the wedding, a guy bumped into her and said that he saw her across the room and knew they were meant to be together. His name was Dexter and he gave her his number. Wherever Remy went, she always bumped into Dexter! They had an odd relationship that is unexplainable, unless I write like five pages. I recommend this book to everyone who loves an interesting and bumpy story! // 10.  ////  Along For the Ride  // by: Sara Dessen Auden goes to visit her dad before summer ends and she has to go to college. Her dad got remarried to Heidi and they had a baby named Thisbe. Auden’s dad chooses weird names for his kids because he is a book writer and he thinks they are cool. In Colby (where Heidi and Auden’s dad live) Auden becomes friends with Eli. People were surprised because Eli never did anything or talked to anyone since he got in a bike crash with his best friend Abe, and Abe died. Auden and Eli are together every night and they catch up on Auden’s social life because she didn’t do much kid stuff when she was younger.

Books I Want to Read!
The purple lettered books are all by Sara Dessen. She is a REALLY good writer!! :)
 * Recycling George
 * Dreamland
 * Someone Like You
 * The Truth About Forever

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