Teen's Top Ten

Here are the winners.  I've highlighted the ones I've read.  My goal is to read the rest of these by Christmas.  (That is if I ever finish reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle).  

• Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)
  
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
  People love this book.  I'm looking forward to this one.
  
• City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
  
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
  I fear this one...a novel in verse about the horrors of drug addiction.  A big hit with the 8th grade right now.
  
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
  Does it count if Greg reads it and just tells me if I should like it.  I guess not.
  
• Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
• Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin)
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The Summer I Turned Pretty

I have to admit I removed the book jacket while I read this book in public.  It is just embarrassing for an adult to read a book with this title and teenagers on the cover.  I have to say though, there is much to like in this book.  The characters are likable and the story is fun and romantic, but not shallow.  There's a love triangle (actually it grows into more than a triangle) and I grew weary of the "who will she choose" back and forth, but I think others will like the struggle (its like the Edward/Jacob issue and though the boys are not vampires and werewolves, one is dark and the other is safe, yadda, yadda). 

This is Jenny Han's second book.  I noticed on her website that the publisher provides a "soundtrack" to accompany the book.  That would have been fun and made the book feel even more summery while reading.  I'll definitely try to listen to the recommended playlist when I read her first book, Shug.