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Not So “Ah-mazing.” Duh, Mom.

Apr 17 2014

(Note: The ending of this month’s book is revealed, so don’t read the final paragraph of this post if you want to be surprised!) I should have known. Call it a gut feeling, having “been there” as a teenage girl and remembering the type of books I read during those years (about mean girls you love to hate) but I really, really wanted to be wrong about The Clique Summer Collection: Massie by Lisi Harrison. This novel is an installment in “The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series.” I wanted there to be a profound, socially-responsible message to tween- and teen-age girls, grounded…

The Book Selection for April…Will it be “Ah-mazing?”

Apr 08 2014

April’s addition to “Twelve Books in 2014” fell into my lap…straight out of my daughter’s backpack. The timing couldn’t have been better, arriving on the heels of March’s book, Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman. When I saw the sassy-appearing teen girl on the cover of The Clique Summer Collection: Massie by Lisi Harrison, my eyebrows went up. When I read the back cover, with its references to “The Pretty Committee” and “The Clique…the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.” I thought how Ms. Wiseman would eat Ms. Harrison (and her book) for breakfast. However, upon further inspection of…

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