Cabot, Meg. Airhead. New York: Point, 2009. Print. ISBN-13: 978-0545040549; Paperback; $9.99; 352 pages.
Book Awards
A New York Times Children's Chapter Book Best Seller
CosmoGIRL! Magazine's May Pick for its online book club
A Teen Choice Book Award Finalist for the Children's Book Council
A selection on the New York Public Library Stuff for the Teen Age, 2009
A YALSA nominee for the 2010 Popular Paperback in the "Bodies" category
Annotation
Emerson Watts an average computer nerd has a plasma T.V. land on her while Nikki Howard a supermodel suffers from a brain aneurism as she walks into the electronic store; Nikki is left brain dead and the two receive a brain transplant and Emerson emerges as Nikki Howard, supermodel and face of Stark. Readers will be enthralled with the challenges Emerson faces as she tries to become Nikki Howard.Book Talk
Can you imagine receiving a brain transplant with a supermodel? Emerson Watts an average girl gets badly injured at the same time Nikki Howard a beautiful and popular supermodel receives a brain aneurism. Stark, Nikki’s label, black mails Emerson into the surgery. She enters her school not as Emerson Watts, but as Nikki Howard. Will she be able to keep up the act, or better yet will she be able to finally tell her secret crush how she really feels in her new body?
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J. Dickson Age 13 says, “ They have books about supermodels and brain transplants? Sounds Cool!”
Cabot, Meg. All-american Girl. New York: HarperTeen, 2008. Print. ISBN-13: 978-0061479892;Paperback;$8.99; 416 pages.
Book Awards
A #1 New York Times Best Seller on its Children's Chapter Book List;6-week run on list
A Publishers Weekly Best Seller
10-week run on the New York Times Children's Paperback Best Seller List
A Publishers Weekly and a BookSense Best Seller (paperback)
Selected for the Fall 2002 Children's BookSense 76 List
Selected for the Texas Lone Star Reading List for the 2003-2004 schoolyear
Chosen by the New York Public Library as a 2003 "Book for the Teen Age"
Chosen by the ALA as a 2006 Popular Paperback for Young Adults: Books That Don't Make You Blush: No Dirty Laundry Here
Won Washington State's 2005 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
Nominated for the 2007 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
Nominated for the 2007 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award
Annotation
Samantha Madison, a fifteen year old girl, makes one simple choice to skip art class and helps prevent an attack on the president; she becomes the all american girl. Readers will be captivated as she deals with her new found fame and the normal problems of her everyday life.
Book Talk
Samantha Madison is your average 15 year old. She enjoys art, has a crush on her older sister's boyfriend, and deals with being the middle child as her older sister is extremely popular and her younger sister is basically a genius in the making. She quickly becomes popular when one day she skips her art lesson and finds herself saving the president from being attacked.
It turns out if you jump onto the back of a would-be assassin, and he isn't expecting you to or anything, you can really throw off his aim. So the bullet Mr. Uptown Girl had meant to send speeding into the President's head went speeding harmlessly off into the stratosphere instead.
As she becomes friends with the president's son and deals with the new instant fame, she realizes what it means to be the- All American Girl.
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S.Maynor Age 15 says, “Samantha is so freaking crazy and funny with the situations she gets herself into in All American Girl!"
Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. New York: HarperTempest, 2001. Print.ISBN-13:978-0064472272; Paperback; $8.99; 247 pages
Awards:
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Annotation
Georgia Nicholson is a 14 year old girl navigating through the life dealing with the crazy behavior of her cat Angus, prudish parents, annoying young siblings, and learns lessons and rules about snogging better known as kissing. This is recommended for teenage girls; they will be left laughing at every page turn.
Book Talk
Well: What is snogging? Georgia Nicholson is a 14 year old
girl who is concerned with getting a boyfriend and learning how to snog, or kiss.
Robbie, the Sex God, is dating Lindsay and she has to find out a way to get rid
of her. Her friends Mabs, Sarah, Jools, Jas, and Ellen help her navigate
through her daily life which include her annoying little sister, parents, and her
crazy cat Angus who is always after the neighbor's poodle. Will Georgia ever learn how to snog, or better yet will she ever snag Robbie?
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M. Russell Age 17says, “ OMG I love Chick Lit. It rocks! They are usually really good books, just like chick
flicks. When I do read, I like to read books that challenge my mind and then
books that just entertain. Chick Lit is very entertaining to read. I like Southern
Charm by Tinsely Mortimer”
Cabot, Meg. Being Nikki. New York: Point, 2010. Print. ISBN-13:978-0545040587; Paperback; $9.99; 352 pages.
Awards
A New York Times Children's Chapter Book Best Seller
A Publishers Weekly Best Seller
Appeared on the Summer 2009 Kid’s Indie Next List as an "Inspired Recommendation for Kids From Indie Booksellers"
Annotation
Emerson Watts is an average girl who has had a brain transplant with a supermodel Nikki Howard;she faces challenges such as a missing mother, random ex-boyfriends, and runway shows. Readers will be entertained as Emerson tries to balance the life of Nikki Howard.
Book Talk
You would think switching brains with a supermodel would be the worst of Emerson’s problems, but she faces many more challenges such as ex-boyfriends she doesn’t remember, a missing mother she doesn’t even know, and a brother who suspects there’s something fishy going on. Follow Emerson as she tries to balance school, runway shows, Stark Enterprises, the company she works for, and—Being Nikki .
Follow Meg Cabot, the author, around New York City as she explains the places that inspired the book....
Russell, Rachel R. Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-so-Fabulous Life. New York: Aladdin, 2009. Print.ISBN-13:978-1416980063 Hardcover; $11.14; 282 pages.
Awards
- CBC Children's Choice Book Award Finalist,
- IRA/CBC Children's Choices
Annotation
Nikki Maxwell is the new kid at school who would rather have an iPhone like the rest of the kids in school, but her mom gives her a diary to sketch in and write about her daily life from deep friendships and her crushes to her rivals and daily problems. Readers especially girls in their midteens will relate to Nikki and her journey from being the new girl at school to finding her place.
Book Talk
What is worse than being a girl in middle school?- being the new girl in middle school? Nikki Maxwell, a self proclaimed dork, arrives at her new private school Westchester Country Day and soon finds out she needs an iPhone to be in the in crowd like MacKenzie Hollister the “queen bee”. Nikki’s mom gives her a diary instead in which Nikki swears never to use. She begins to sketch and write about her struggles at the new school. She competes with MacKenzie, the most stuck up and snobbish girl in school, in an art contest to win $500. Friendships with Chloe and Zoey, competition with her rival MacKenzie, crushing on Brandon, annoying siblings, parents who don’t understand—all surround Nikki. Will she win the contest and finally get her iPhone, will she beat Mackenzie?
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B. Fairview Age 12 says, “I like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. The pictures always
make me laugh. I didn’t know there were books called The Dork Diaries for girls. I
might like those!”
T. Thetford Age 13 says, “Books written for girls are much better than most of the books I have to read at school. Those kinds of books are much funnier!"
Russell, Rachel R. Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-so-Talented Pop Star. New York: Aladdin, 2011. Print. ISBN-13:978-1442411906; Hardcover; $13.99; 311 pages.
Awards None
Annotation
Nikki attends Westchester Country Day, a private school, on scholarship because her father is the schools exterminator; Nikki trying to hide this secret from her friends, enters a talent competition to pay for her tuition and hide her secret. Reader’s, especially young girls, will be entertained as Nikki tries to protect her reputation.
Book Talk
Nikki Maxwell is a 14 year old girl attending private school, Westchester Country Day, on a scholarship because her father is the school’s exterminator. She shares in her diary. [ open the book to show her journal pages ], how she wants to protect this secret from her friends and especially her crush—Brandon. She enters a talent contest hoping to win money to pay for her tuition so she can keep her secret. She will do anything to prevent everyone from knowing her dad is the one who drives the crazy van with the roach on top! Follow Nikki as she chronicles her life as—The-Not-so-Talented-Popstar.
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Hear her as she talks about the book at the 2011 National Book Festival.......
Cabot, Meg. Haunted. New York: Avon Books, 2005. Print. Cabot, M. Haunted. ISBN-13: 978-0756978310; Hardcover; $17.25; 263 pages.
Awards: None
Annotation
Susannah Simon is a 16 year old mediator who happens to be in love with an eighteenth century ghost Jessie meanwhile Paul Slater another mediator ,who she hates to like, won’t leave her alone. Young adult readers will enjoy following Susannah as she tries to balance being a teen mediator.
Book Talk
Sixteen year old boy crazy mediator Susannah Simon
Fights against evil
Protects the living
Helps dead pass over
Haunted by ghost Jessie a.ka. an eighteenth century hottie she’s in love with
Evil shifter Paul tries to convince her she’s a shifter too
Physically drawn to the bad boy shifter Paul but is in love with Jesse the ghost
Faced with a choice
Real person, but evil or the love of your life, but a ghost
Cabot, Meg. Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel. New York: HarperTeen, 2008. Print.ISBN-13:978-0061479960 Paperback; $8.99; 336 pages.
Book Awards
Debuted at #1 spot on the New York Times Children's Chapter Books BestSeller List on August 14, 2005; 4-weeks in the #1 spot and 8-weeks on the list
A Publishers Weekly and a USA Today Best Seller
Chosen by the New York Public Library as a 2006 "Book for the Teen Age"
Annotation
Samantha Madison is a 16 year old who is dating the President’s son David and faces many challenges as she infers that she has had sex with her boyfriend, who’s father the President has just made a Return to Family Policy, on national television. Readers will enjoy the challenges Samantha faces as she tries to get through all the drama.
Book Talk
Samantha Madison is a junior in high school who is somewhat famous because she is dating the President’s son David. She is faced with awkward situations when she takes a natural life drawing class with David which involves a naked male model and then when she infers that they may be having sex on national television. These incidents conflict with the President’s Return to Family Policy. Here comes Samantha Madison America—Ready or Not.
Learn about the interesting day in the life of Meg Cabot....
Barnholdt, Lauren. Two*way Street. New York: Simon Pulse, 2007. Print. ISBN-13:978-1416913184 Paperback; $9.99; 304 pages.
Awards
2008 New York Public Library "Books for the Teen Age"
2009 New York Public Library Popular Paperbacks for Yong Adults
Annotation
Courtney and Jordan are headed on a three day trip to Boston for their college orientation, only problem is Jordan broke up with Courtney two weeks prior to the road trip due to some girl on MySpace; there are always two sides to every story and apparently every break-up. Readers will be drawn in by the awkwardness of the situation but also the two characters in the story as they have to read between the lines. Recommended for upper teens.
Book Talk
- Courtney and Jordan are recently broken up
- Courtney is organized and scheduled while Jordan is laid back and easy going
- Three day road trip to Boston for College orientation
- Secrets revealed
- Friendship betrayed
- Why did Jordan break up with Courtney?
- Who was this girl on MySpace?
- There are always two versions to every story in a relationship
- Will their friendship survive the trip, the breakup?
- Will they get back together?
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