Four Things My Geeky-Jock-of-a-Best-Friend Must Do in Europe

Long title this one! Jane Harrington is the author and this is a simple little story about at tween girl on a cruise with her mother. Brady's best friend, Delia, told her that she must do four things (and she wrote them on Brady's hands and arms.)

Brady writes a series of letters to Delia while on a Mediterranean cruise with her mom. Brady makes new friends and sees a few new countries.

Light and humerous, there's not much depth here, but it is an ok read.

Schooled by Gordon Korman

One of the best tween books I've read in a long time. Sort of like Love, Stargirl in that the main character is quirky and marches to a very different drum.

Capricorn (Cap) has spent his whole life at Garland (a commune left over from the 1960s) and then one day his grandmother, Rain, falls out of a tree and life is never again the same.

Cap is placed with a temporary foster family and goes to public school (8th grade) for the first time.

Public school is another world to Cap and he is like a visitor from another planet. The popular kids make Cap a target, but he doesn't react quite the way they expect. Voted 8th Grade President as a traditional school joke~Cap believes everything he is told including that he must learn all 1100 student names.

I enjoyed this quick read and would recommend it readers ages 10-14.

Currently Reading The Castle Corona

I'm almost done reading Sharon Creech's new novel. This doesn't actually seem to be a tween book. I think it is pretty solidly Juvenile.