Keeping The Moon by Sarah Dessen

The book Keeping the moon is by Sarah Dessen.

The book is about a 15 year old Nicole "colie" sparks. Colie’s mom, Kiki sparks; aerobics instructor is taking her famous weight loss program to Europe. Colie leaves Charlotte (home town) to live in Colby, N.C. with her Aunt Mira. Colie just lost all of her extra weight but now has a reputation she didn’t earn. Going to Colby, Colie thinks she can forget about her past until Caroline Dawes (enemy) shows up and spreads rumors around about Colie. Colie takes up a waitressing job at the "last chance diner" where she meets fun-loving Morgan, Friendship-impaired Isabel, and "Hippie" artist Norman. Even in Colby there are people like Caroline Dawes and Colie Sparks. Colie learns more about herself from her Aunt Mira, Morgan, Isabel, and Norman. Colie learns to except herself for who she is and stand up for herself.

I liked the book because it’s different from all the rest of Sarah Dessen books. This book shows some of the real situation of teens and cruelty of teens. I like that Colie had friends that helped her in Colby and she shredded is low-self esteem and believed in herself.

The Boy Friend List

The Boy Friend List by E. lockhart. This book came out in 2005 and  it has 229 pages.

The Boy friend List starts out with Ruby talking  to her shrink (Doctor Z). It is her sophomore year, she has lost her boyfriend, her best friend, all of her other friends, and everything else that is important to her. when she thinks it couldnt get worse, rumors are spreading around the school.
Ruby's life is now turning for the worse. Her shrink is having her to make a list of all the boys she had any kind of thing with. Ruby copes with her emothions and comes to realize that with the problems she is having, she knows that life still goes on. Her life starts to get better after she goes to a birthday party. At the party, her old best friend finds out that Ruby wasnt lieing about her boyfriend. After that, her life just goes up hill from that point.

I love this book it is one of my favorite ones. This book is a good book for high school girls. It has a good point on trying to escape from high school drama. the book gives you so much advice about how to handle problems like the ones in the book. I really recommand The Boy Friend List to read.

The Beast

I read The Beast by Walter Dean Myers.The Beast has 170 pages and it come out in 2003.

The beast is about a 17 year old named Anthony Withersppoon. Gabi is 16 years old and she is Anthony's Girl-Friend. The beast starts out with Anthony leaving his home town (Harlem) for school in New England. At first the two were talking about getting married but when he gets back 7 months, he knows something is different about her. she was this great peot, and now she is a thin wasted drug addict. Anthony is going to try to do everything he can to get her to stop using drugs. Read this book to find out what else happens to Anthony.

I love this book. it made me realize what drugs really can to do you and your loved ones. The beast also reminded me about another story, i was told when i was younger. I recommend you to read this book.