Dorothy Must Die By Danielle Paige

Amy Gumm is a 17 year old who lives in Kansas. Her Mom is pain killer addicted and Amy is bullied at school. When a tornado sweeps up her trailer her is taken to Oz, but it is nothing like what she thought it would be. It turns out that Dorothy came back and just started to want more and more magic. Amy becomes a ROW of Revolutionary Order Of The Wicked. She helps them defeat Dorothy because after all, she is the other girl from Kansas.

I really liked this book. Amy Gumm is a very interesting character. I loved the twist on the story. It was full of imagination and I loved the idea that Dorothy turns evil.

This book is has a lot of curse words in it. If you don't like gore, I don't recommend this book.

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TBR list:

Elenor and Park (recommended by Grace)

Outliers (recommended by Sarah) 

The secret life of bees

My Mother The Cheerleader By Robert Sharenow

  This is a book about a girl named Louise. She was sure that nothing new would happen in her life. she would still help her mother with their boarding house, she would still go to school, and she would still help Charlotte. Then desegregation starts at her school. She is pulled out of William Frantz and her mom becomes a cheerleader. The cheerleaders are a group of woman who gather outside of Louise's school to bully Ruby Bridges, a six year old african-american attending William Frantz school. But if that wasn't enough change in her life, one day a Chevy Bel Air pulls up in front of the boarding house and a man named Morgan steps out. He has a very mysterious past and Louse realizes that finally somebody cares about her feelings. Soon, they know the reason Morgan is there and everything about Louise's world changes.

I really liked this book. I think it is a really interesting story and is well written. It is a little bit boring at first, but I feel like there was a really good story in the end. I also think Louise is a very interesting character and it was fun to get to know her.

There is some mature themes and language in this book, most of which racist.

TBR list:

1. I Am The Messenger
2. The Adoration Of Jenna Fox (recommended by Lydia)
3. All The Truth About Me
4. Elenor and Park (recommend by Grace)

Six Months Later

By Natalie D. Richards

Genre: Young Adult

This is a book about a girl named Chole. In May, she fell asleep in study hall. She woke up and it was snowing. Her life has been changed for the better, but she doesn't remember the last six months of her life. But she starts to realize that she needs her memory back, and her life. She decides that she doesn't want the life she has now, she wants her best friend, Maggie, back, and she just doesn't like her boyfriend. Soon her life is nothing like what her parents want it to be like and Chole isn't even sure what she wants to do.

I really liked this book. At first it was  a little boring, but then it was a very interesting mystery story. I liked how Chloe decides what to do. I also like that it was told from Chole's perspective, so the reader has no idea what has happened in the past six months. This was such an incredible book at the end. I think her friendship with Maggie was a great story in itself. So this was a pretty good book at the end.

This book does have some bad language in it.

My next three TBRs:

1. My Mother The Cheerleader
2. I Am The Messenger
3. Elenor and Park

I added both My Mother The Cheerleader and I Am The Messenger to my TBR list because of Linda's recommendation. 

TBR (to be read) List

1. Neverwhere by Neil Gamin
2. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
3. Grandmaster by David Hlass
4. The Secret Life Of Bees
5. Elenor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

13 Little Blue Envelopes

This book by Maureen Johnson is called 13 Little Blue Envelopes. It is a Literary Fiction book.

Ginny started out as a girl who was very shy and she tried to go unnoticed. This summer she gets 13 little blue envelopes from her runaway Aunt. They give her specific instructions:

The first envelope has instructions to buy a plane ticket and $1,000.
The second tells her to go to curtain London flat.

Soon, Ginny is heading off to Scotland on a journey with the thief/playwright/actor named Keith. They end with disastrous, and a bit romanic results.

I really liked this book. I think there is some suspense, but it's really not a scary book. I like Ginny as a character. This book being told from her perspective, I really think I was able to get to know her. It was a very interesting story and I liked having some questions answered one by one.

This book does have a mature theme of her Aunt's peculiar choices. There is no bad language.

If you read this book, be sure to get the sequel: The Last Little Blue Envelope!

Enjoy!