HarperTeen, 368 Pages
Released: June 7, 2011
Format: eBook (iPad)
Challenges: Completely Contemp Challenge
2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn't have.
If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn't jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe "opportunity" isn't the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: "Lied to Our Parents"). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up "Skipping School" (#3), "Throwing a Crazy Party" (#8), "Buying a Hot Tub" (#4), and, um, "Harboring a Fugitive" (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them.
In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart . . . one thing-she-shouldn't-have-done at a time.
----------------Goodreads summary
What a fun book! It's so funny and breezy - definitely one of the best light reads anyone could have!
Truthfully, I don't have much to say in this review beyond saying that I loved it! It's a great little story of a girl figuring out herself and her life wrapped into a neat, humorous story of antics and adventure. I loved the concept and the title and the list and all the craziness April finds herself in. I liked how the family was still a major part to the book, even if they weren't physically in much of it.
If you're looking for a hard hitting YA novel, well...I have no idea why you would have picked this book up in the first place. But if you want to thoroughly enjoy a story, laugh a little, feel a little, root for a friend in the romantic sense, hate the boyfriend, and wish you did a few of these things too...this is for you.
Released: June 7, 2011
Format: eBook (iPad)
Challenges: Completely Contemp Challenge
2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn't have.
If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn't jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe "opportunity" isn't the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: "Lied to Our Parents"). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up "Skipping School" (#3), "Throwing a Crazy Party" (#8), "Buying a Hot Tub" (#4), and, um, "Harboring a Fugitive" (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them.
In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart . . . one thing-she-shouldn't-have-done at a time.
----------------Goodreads summary
Notable Quote (because it's hilarious)
"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?"
What a fun book! It's so funny and breezy - definitely one of the best light reads anyone could have!
Truthfully, I don't have much to say in this review beyond saying that I loved it! It's a great little story of a girl figuring out herself and her life wrapped into a neat, humorous story of antics and adventure. I loved the concept and the title and the list and all the craziness April finds herself in. I liked how the family was still a major part to the book, even if they weren't physically in much of it.
If you're looking for a hard hitting YA novel, well...I have no idea why you would have picked this book up in the first place. But if you want to thoroughly enjoy a story, laugh a little, feel a little, root for a friend in the romantic sense, hate the boyfriend, and wish you did a few of these things too...this is for you.
4 Stars / 5
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