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If you’re shopping for a nice, thoughtful present for a pre-teen or teenage girl, check out “Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty” because it’s a *great* book for teenage girls.
“Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty: Everything You Need to Look Pretty, Natural, Sexy and Awesome” is a handy reference of about 200 pages with:
glossy pictures of teenage girls [...]
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I am now an official Roald Dahl fan! ‘Boy: Tales of Childhood’ is a sort of autobiography as the book covers the periodRoald Dahl was born in the South of Wales (his parents are Norwegian) and how his life changed when his father died, leaving his mother to care for 3 sisters, ‘an ancient half-sister’, [...]
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Anyone who has read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” must definitely read this memoir of a 13 year old Hungarian Jewish girl, Elli Friedmann, who survived the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz with her mother.
While “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” records the events of the Holocaust from a young [...]
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I borrowed this book from the school library when I was about 12. Reading “Daddy-Long-Legs”, I fell in love with the idea of having penfriends and the art of letter writing.
Jerusha Abbott (later called Judy) is an orphan at the John Grier Home, which is nothing like loving atmosphere of the orphanage in John Irving’s [...]
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Now, why would a college freshman from Virginia want to stake out a sporting goods store, map out his burglary and proceed to break-in when he doesn’t need the money?
Tom Wagner is a “freelancer or hobbyist criminal” and as he puts it, he’s doing it simply because
“I can. That’s the only reason I need.”
Bored with [...]
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In 2008, I joined 2 reading challenges and am happy that I could finish the Young Readers’ Challenge!
I missed 3 books off the Young Adult Challenge but still, it’s great to know that my kid read 12 books and I read 10 books myself…
For 2009, [...]
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Teen aged girls who love “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King”, “Chronicles of Narnia” and “Stardust” will LOVE “Ariel’s Journey” as the book combines the love of horses, adventure, fantasy, romance and the trials of teenage life in one power-packed read.
Five very different young women sent to the woods to learn about Icelandic [...]
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This novel about 15 year old Ashley Asher who escapes from six years of sexual abuse by her stepfather has to be fastest book I’ve finished reading ever since I became a mother!
Seriously, the unravelling of the story kept my eyes glued to the book for nearly four hours.
When I read about how [...]
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