Summer Young Adult Reading

July and August at the Ferron Library are Young Adults Summer Reading months. Two  books that I recently read and enjoyed are:

"13 Little Blue Envelopes" by Maureen Johnson.   Gr. 8-11.


 Ginny Blackstone's free-spirited aunt sends her on an adventure. Guided by Aunt Peg's friends and the instructions in each of the 13 letters Peg wrote, 17-year-old Ginny travels to Europe. Traveling to places she has never been, seeing new sites and meeting new people Ginny retraces the footsteps of her runaway aunt. During this experience Ginny begins to come to terms with her aunt leaving New York abruptly two years ago. Ginny also begins to find out about herself, what she is made of and what she can do. The tables are turned when at the end of the book, Ginny write a letter to her aunt.

"Close to famous" by Joan Bauer          Grades 5-8
Foster McFee wants to have her own cooking show "Cooking with Foster", but she is only twelve years old. Life hasn't been easy for Foster: her father died in Iraq, her mother worked as a back up singer, and Foster has a reading disability. Life sent to them to the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia from Memphis in the middle of the night. The only thing Culpepper has going for it is that people help each other. Slowing Foster makes friends and she and her mom find jobs. Rayka McFee works at a hardware store, and Foster makes cupcakes and muffins to sell at Angry Wayne's Bar and Grill and works on perfecting her cooking show. She also has cooking tips: "bake every day. If you have to leave town fast, you'll always have something good to eat in the car" and  "if you want to be remembered, bake."