This book opens with your typical, everyday 7th grade, hyper boy vigilent teen ager focused on what all little 7th grade girls are aware of. This wonderful book came with another book that I had requested and I wasn't planning on including it with the Best of 2013 Middle Grade reads until I read it ~ it wasn't at all what I was expecting. Im only disappointed with typos and grammar errors, considering how those were easily fixable.Īsk My Mood Ring How I Feel was another book I wasn't sure I wanted to read. Most others have the main character dump drama down seemingly effortlessly. Erica's inspiring journey to reach a goal she set to help her mom in a symbolic way, constantly giving help without being asked, and dealing with all her emotions without anyone to talk to, it made the story much more real than other YA's and MSes. I personally couldn't put this book down. That's when it comes out that Erica's mom has breast cancer. Scared by their unusual fighting, they begin to wonder what's wrong. But once at the dinner table, her dad begins treating her mom like an invalid. Her mom can e strange sometimes, so she doesn't think much of it. She has the typical worries of an eighth grade girl- family, friends, boys, and clothes.Įrica's life is turned up-side-down when her mother comes home with 9 bikinis. She's an eighth grader, not popular, but not unpopular. This book is about a girl with an average life. I learned so much about cancer, and other subjects from Carmen's rambling, and the mother.

Confetti Girl by Diana López