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Sleepaway Girls Sleepaway Girls by Jen Calonita is the perfect spin on a classic summer camp filled with friendship, hilarious situations, and sweet romance. Plot Summary: Samantha Montgomery, or Sam, is fed up with Malomark. (Malomark is her ship name for her best friend, Mal, and her new bad boy boyfriend, Mark.) She couldn’t stand another “No, baby you’re cuter” or another instance where she ended up the third wheel. Sam decides she will be a CIT, counselor in training, at Whispering Pines sleepaway camp in the Catskills. (2 hours away from her home in New York City Suburbia.) To camp, she brings a small palm recorder that she plans to record message to send back home to Mal. At camp, Sam meets Courtney, a beautiful, boy-crazy girl, who likes to be called Court, Grace, a super athletic, outgoing young lady who reaches out to Sam and holds the group together, and Emily, a girl who loves romance novels and wishes she has a boyfriend like most of those characters. Thes...

While young adult romance, especially in books, can be incredibly cheesy, who doesn’t love a sappy, love novel to read on Valentine’s Day. Ranging from one ultimate classic to several lighthearted, current novels, here are my top six books to read on Valentine’s Day Weekend. #6: The Fill-in Boyfriend By Kasie West The Fill-In Boyfriend is just what it sounds: girl’s relationship falls through in the parking lot at her senior prom, so she MUST have someone for her friends to meet; thus, she grabs the first boy in sight. A couple fibs, one night, half an hour of dancing, then it’s over, right? Wrong. Now, she’s totally involved… Predictability can be good and bad, but when the desired outcome is a sappy, heart-string  tugging novel, it’s great. #5: Scrambled Eggs at Midnight By Heather Hepler ( Read my interview with this author here. ) and Brad Barkley Cal needs a permanent home. She is tired of road tripping from state to state with her mother. She ne...

Flunked Flunked by Jen Calonita is a spin on all of your favorite fairy-tales, while incorporating some new details as well. Plot Summary: Gilly is a thief. Let me rephrase that, a “minor” thief. But she steals for a good reason, right? She steals for her family, a poor, rag-tag, group of people who live in a very cramped boot. Her father, is a shoemaker who was the actual inventor of the glass slipper. Now Princess Ella’s fairy godmother can make them with a flick of her wand, but her family must put in a lot of work for just a standard boot, much less a glass slipper they created . But she does not just steal from anybody. She steals items from people who can live without them. Taking back what is rightfully her’s and her family’s. She steals from royals. She steals anything from dragon tooth clips to day old bread. One day, this has never happened before and she swears it will never happen again, she gets caught by the Enchantasia Police. (An initiative headed up by ...