Fun Summer Reads

He’s So Not Worth It – Kieran Scott

Told in two voices, Allie and Jake continue to be bombarded by family issues and pressures from the "Cresties" and their poorer counterparts as they spend a summer dealing with the fallout of their breakup.






Little Blog on the Prairie – Cathleen Davitt Bell

Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.






What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen

Seventeen-year-old Mclean begins to lose sight of who she really is after she tries to reinvent herself at each school she attends after her parents' divorce and her father moves her from town to town.





Uncommon Criminals – Ally Carter

This is the sequel to Heist Society. Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself. 






Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn’t Have) – Sarah Mlynowski

Sixteen-year-old April, a high school junior, and her friend Vi, a senior, get a crash course in reality as the list of things they should not do becomes a list of things they did while living parent-free in Westport, Connecticut, for the semester.

This group of books was so much fun to read. I picked up most of these from just browsing at the bookstore. The book out of this set that I was most excited to read was Uncommon Criminals. It made my day that the bookstore had set them out before the actual release date. Ally Carter did not disappoint. If you liked Heist Society,  this second book about Kat Bishop's thievery will make you hope that Carter continues the series. However, as much as I enjoyed this book, my favorite book out of this set was  What Happened to Goodbye. Sarah Dessen really is able to reach in and write what teens are feeling. I remember having to move many times when I was younger, and each move was more difficult than the last - how do you keep yourself when you have to frequently start over and make new friends and find new groups to join? Mclean is able to realize that if she stays true to herself, the moving and the changes won't matter as much -  and that her true friends will always be there for her. This is a message that everyone needs to hear - whether they are moving or not, which is why this was my favorite book out of this set.