A Crooked Kind of Perfect

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 A Crooked Kind of Perfect

 By Linda Urban

I loved this book!  It is so cute.  It is about Zoe, who dreams of playing the piano...but her agoraphobic dad gets roped into buying an organ instead!  She ends up learning to play the organ and competing in the local Perform-O-Rama competition.  I love how she goes through 10-year-old drama that any girl can probably relate to.  What really got to me though when her dad is too freaked by all the people to watch her performance and her mom misses her birthday and then almost misses her perform because of her dedication to her work.  I realized how most kids are just so desperate for their parents' love.  Kids can be so forgiving when their parents let them down.  It made me think about how much my parents mean to me and how much I really mean to Jordan now.  I have to say, I did shed a tear at the end.  There is also a little 10-year-old crush just to add a little romance to it all!  This is a great story!

Rodrick Rules

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Jeff Kinney

This was another funny installment to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I love the concept behind this book. Most of it is written like a kid writing in a journal and then there are funny pictures/comics inserted between the words. The pictures just make it so funny. I love how the character just goes through regular kid stuff. I can totally see how kids could relate to this book and how the illustrations make it motivating to read. I think this is an especially good series for boys who aren't so thrilled about reading.

The First Part Last

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The First Part Last

By Angela Johnson

I loved the writing and how the author describes the main character and his love for his baby. It was super easy to relate to the main character even though my situation is very different from his. It is written in a unique style: one section will be "now" and then the next section will be "then" and it goes back and forth until the "then" catches up with the "now". I would definitely recommend this for new moms because of how the character deals with having a newborn, even if you planned to have a baby or aren't a single parent or aren't a teenager with a baby, it's still a touching story about how a baby changes your life.

The Secrets of Peaches

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The Secrets of Peaches

By Jodi Lynn Anderson

This book was a sequel to Peaches, which I recently read. I definitely like this book better, but I'm not sold on the ending. This book at least went somewhere, I felt like the first book took a long time to go anywhere but this one really went places...but it still had a slow-cooker feeling to it. Anyway, the ending, don't you hate the books that have a good ending but it's really a bad ending that is good because it has to be that way? I don't know how to explain it. I do like that it at least gave me a complete and whole feeling when I finished it. I hate endings that really leave you wondering, even though you can make up the ending for yourself, I like to just know so I know. So that's part of this being a good ending because I feel like I know what happened to the characters and where they ended up, but knowing what the ending told me, I'm not necessarily happy for all the characters. Not every story can be a happy ending though, right? Just to clarify, this book did actually have a fairly happy ending minus one character, or two, I guess. You have to read it to decide for yourself! And then maybe try and clarify what I've tried to say here!

Overall, this book really reminded me more of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. I like to read about girls who are living and learning about life and going through real experiences that other girls can relate to. I definitely felt more connected with the characters in this book compared to the first book. It was worth reading the first book to be able to read this book though.

Sleep Sweet

How cute is this picture? I just love this little boy! Both yesterday and today he had fallen asleep in the car on the way home. I scooped him up out of his car seat and got him up to his crib. I love when he just turns right over and just goes back to sleep. So cute! I just want to crawl in next to him and snuggle. I'll have to settle for my own bed. Naps are fun!