What's New? Stacking the Shelves

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For review:

The Girl Guide: finding your place in a mixed-up world by Christine Fonseca. 228 p. Prufrock Press, April 15, 2013. 9781618210272. 

Publisher synopsis: Finding your unique voice in a noisy world can be hard. Very hard. But not if you have a great guide! "The Girl Guide: Finding Your Place in a Mixed-Up World" is a must read for girls in grades 6-8 as they enter the tumultuous world of adolescence. Packed with fun worksheets and quizzes, as well as stories from older girls and women, "The Girl Guide" covers everything a teenage girl needs to know on the journey toward her own identity. Proven strategies for dealing with stress management, confronting relational aggression, being safe online, navigating the changing mother-daughter relationship, and more make this the ultimate guide for any girl to get through the teen years and discover her unique point of view in the world.


Bought: 

My Life in Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald. Unabridged audiobook on 5 compact discs. Read by Cassandra Morris. Brilliance Audio, November, 2011. 9781455857425.

Publisher synopsis: Twelve-year-old Lucy Desberg believes in taking fate into her own hands. When the local homecoming queen shows up at her family’s drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, word gets out, and suddenly Lucy has a line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah in Connecticut. But it’ll take more than makeovers to save the struggling pharmacy. Lucy searches long and hard for a solution that will resuscitate the family business and help the environment, too. But will Lucy’s spacey mom and stubborn grandma stop fighting long enough to listen to a seventh-grader?

In this funny and sweet debut novel, Lucy knows what she wants and is prepared to fight for it, whether it’s great makeup, a killer business plan, or a better world.

I have had the book on TOM, the tbr, ever since it pubbed. It looks like such fun and I'm mad at myself for not getting to it. When I picked up the arc of the sequel, I made a promise to read this first but I donated my book to my school library and it's always out so rather than borrowing a copy from the public library, I checked to see if was available as an audio. It was and, at a reasonable price. 

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Happy reading!