Spring Break!!

I have been gone for far too long, my dear friends. A few weeks after the term endd, but all is well, i am back for spring break and i will be blogging quite a bit in the following weeks. To kick off this book blogging feat, I chose a book that I really love. The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty is told complete in diary entries, letters, emails and notes between six students from two different schools.

Emily Thompson, Cassie Aganovic and Lydia Jaackson-Oberman are three best friends who go to Ashbury School for girls. This year they are required to have penpals from the boys school, Brookfield High, and exchange letters with them on a regular basis. The girls, at first, don't want to exchange letters with guys from Brookfield because it has a reputation for having many delinquents.

Each of the girls gets a strange surprise though. Emily is assigned to Charlie Taylor, a sweet guy who is a part-time car theif and is helpless when it comes to girls, which Emily tries to help with. Lydia gets Sebastian Mantegna, a total slacker, and really nice artist who is obsessed with soccer. Cass gets a kid named Matthew Dunlop, who sends threateneing notes and is a psychopath. But, as Cass talks to him more, Emily and Lydia start to wonder if Matthew is even a real person.

As Emily teaches Charlie to date, Lydia and Seb pull favors for eachother, mainly so Seb can get out of tests, and Cass decids to meet up with Matt. But, Matt isn't who he has claimed to be in his letters to Cass. He may not have good things in mind when they meet. On top of that, Charlie starts fighting with Emily for getting him in trouble and Lydia is mad at Seb for breaking a promise, and for beating up a kid at his school. On topof that, the girls are being blamed for a string of vandalism attacks on the schools.

RED'S ALL STAR REVIEW: 3 out of 5. Sometimes, rarely, the letter format gets distracting and a little annoying, but it's usually easy to read and interesting to see the connections made there. This book has a few companion books, so check those out too!

MASS APPEAL: The experiences by these teens are similar to those in real life, with the exception of these teens go to vastly different schools and their main form of communication is letters. But, teens should like this book because of the comedy, romance, and criminal trials at the end.

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