We’re midway through Mother-Daughter Book Club.com’s Summer Blast Giveaway. This week I’m offering a copy of The Real Real by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Comment by midnight (PDT) on Friday, July 23 to be entered into the drawing. (Giveaway closed to new entries. Congratulations to Ellen on winning a copy.) Here’s my review:
Jesse is [...]

The fun continues here at Mother Daughter Book Club.com with the Summer Blast Giveaway. This week I’m offering Tombstone Tea by Joanne Dahme. (Please note: giveaway is closed. Congratulations to Brenda for winning a copy.) Here’s my review:
Jessie is acting on a dare when she shows up at the Laurel Hill Cemetery one night. Her [...]

Will Grayson #1 believes in two rules: 1. Don’t care too much. 2. Shut up. He’s pretty sure if he follows those he can make it through high school. But he’s not always good at following them. The last time he violated his rules was to defend his best friend Tiny Cooper, who is gay, [...]

Every summer of her life Belly (short for Isabel) has gone to the same summer home with her mom, her brother, her mom’s best friend and the friend’s two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. She’s the youngest of the children, and she always felt let out of activities the boys arranged. Now, she’s about to turn [...]

Mia can’t wait to get to her cousin Corinne’s summer house on Long Island. Even though Mia lives in Georgia, the two girls have always had a special bond. But when Mia arrives on Long Island, she can tell right away that this summer will be different. Corinne acts like she’s too cool for Mia, [...]

Mary Richards isn’t sure what’s wrong with her. She got so tired in school she fell asleep…and purred. She’s sprouting fur wherever a cat rubs against her skin. And she’s craving milk. When Nick, the guy she has a crush on, seems to understand what’s happening to her, and he offers to help, she decides [...]

Congratulations to Denise, who won last weeks book giveaway, How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephart. This week in the Mother Daughter Book Club.com Summer Blast Book Giveaway I’m offering a copy of The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson. This teen science fiction book offers great opportunities about medical ethics, what [...]

Merlin’s Harp by Anne Eliot Crompton is a retelling of the legend of King Arthur and his times from the perspective of Niviene, daughter of the Lady of the Lake, known to Niviene as Nimway. They live on Apple Island, also known as Avalon, with Niviene’s brother, Lugh. Niviene is happy in her Fey world, [...]

Darina can hardly believe her eyes when she stumbles upon a gathering in an old barn near an abandoned home way out of town. Drawn to the area because of tales around town of strange sightings there, she is shocked to see Phoenix, her recently dead boyfriend, and three other teens from town who have [...]

After our mother-daughter book club discussed The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson, one of the girls wrote this review.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox is an interesting book with a plot that makes you want to read to the end. It covers many difficult topics with a very real and human perspective, mainly [...]