Tween Girls Do Love To Read!

NEWS: Tween Girls Do Love to Read! We have polls to support that claim. But better than polls and cold stats, I read tween girls’ blogs every day - they're saying that they love to read. In fact, The AllyKatzz Book Club is one of the top clubs on the site.

Tween girls do hate reading boring books aka “gotta read for school" books. But, they love reading GREAT books. It’s really that simple. So let’s help them get GREAT books to read.

Starting today, I’ll post weekly book reviews from the AllyKatzz girls… books tween girls are talking about now. So when you’re at the bookstore this weekend, instead of staring at all those books, now you’ll have a clue what to look for based on what other tween girls are saying. Note: 2 Paws UP is the ultimate ranking in the AllyKatzz review system.

“The Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson. I give this series 2 paws up! It's a young adult fiction and it's sooooooooo cool! Me and my mom are reading the series right now! i'm on the second book, The Lake House and she's on the third book, The Angel Project.” Age 13.

“Elsewhere... Okay, so we had to read this book in school for this thing called a "Literature Circle". Of course, I thought I was going to get a terrible book and be so booooooored. But instead, I got this book assigned called "Elsewhere". It's by Gabrielle Zevin and it RULES! 'Tis about this girl named Liz. She dies and goes to a place called Elsewhere (Gabrielle Zevin's version of Heaven, I guess). At first, she's all freaked out because she doesn't know where she is! But she meets many people along the way, like Owen Welles (whom she falls in love with), Thandi (a girl who died from gunshot), Curtis Jest (an English rocker), and her Grandma Betty, who died before Liz was born. This book has a teeny weeny bit of mature content, so I rate it P-G for the content and 5 out of 5 stars for the overall book!” Age 12

“If yal want to know a good teen aged based book series check out the Mates, Dates series by Kathy Hopkins. they are totally awesome.” Age 12

“The City of Ember. The city of ember is the best book ever! I love it! it is an awesome cliff hanger! you have got to read it. My class is reading it and they are only on chapter 11 and i finished it and theres 20 chapters. now im on the second one and after this one there is a prequal which tells about what it was like before the main characters of the first one were born! i would tell u about the book but i would get to carried away and tell the ending. i will say that Ember is a poor city and is running out of everything because the builders left "Just enough"! it is an awesome book and u have got to read it!” Age 12

“ Out of the Dust is an amazing book. I'm going to write down the review of it from the back of the book. A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better-playing the piano-is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma-and the surprising landscape of her heart. This is an amazing book. It won the Newberry Medal too. You really should read this story of hardship, hope and love.” Age 11

"Manga is my life. I love Fruit Baskets." Age 12

Thanks to Random House for sending us books to give way to AllyKatzz girls. Ally, my 14-year-old daughter read 2 of these books: Life As It Comes by Anne-Laure Bondoux and The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance by Catherine Ryan Hyde. She gave them both 2 Paws UP and she’s not easily impressed.

If you’re a publisher or author and want to send us books for the AllyKatzz girls to review, please send me an email: denise@allykatzz.com. The girls will be forever grateful!

Posted by Denise Restauri