Bauer, J. (2011). Close to famous. New York: Puffin Books. Schneider FamilyJunior Book AwardThose looking for something out there, beyond where they currently are will fall in love with this story. After a big move, Foster becomes famous in her own way in a new town. Many love her baking, but the...
"You never know the blessings that come from suffering."Actual rating: 3.5 Jenna Boller is a sixteen-year-old ugly duckling teenager who has a talent for selling shoes. A gifted employee at her branch of Gladstone's Shoes - a shoe company with 176 different outlets in 37 states, a company whose q...
Sticks is about a boy named Mickey and his family owns a pool hall. They also live above the pool hall in a little apartment. Mickey's dad was a great pool player but then he died. Mickey wants to follow in his dad's foot steps and be one of the best junior pool players in the world and he is onl...
A.J. is a photographer. A photographer who seems destined to suffer broken relationships for her art. Well, that's what she says. Her parents say it is more like she falls in love too easily and doesn't really look beyond the surface of the guys she dates. But this is A.J.'s senior year, and she ...
Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.comHOPE WAS HERE is a brilliant book by an equally brilliant author, Joan Bauer. When I read this book for the first time (my copy is worn; I've read it so often!), I was an instant fan of the author. HOPE WAS HERE is worth your time, worth your money, ...