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This book is so good! I have read and reread it so many times! It is a great romance book, and is the perfect book to get comfortable in a blanket with a mug of hot chocolate!½

Emery, the main character, hates Christmas, but is unfortunate enough to have been born in a family that is Christmas obsessed. While she is pretending to be an elf in the mall for her parents, she ends up meeting Alex, a boy in her school who loves Christmas and helps out at his grandfather’s hot cocoa shop. She doesn’t really like him at first and is adamant that Christmas isn’t for her, but Alex is determined to change her mind about sweetness of hot cocoa and the holiday season. He helps her with her Secret Santa problems and, to Emery’s surprise, she actually starts to like him. As Emery gets to know more about the people she never thought she’d be friends with (Alex, Nessa), and gets to know more about her crush, Sawyer, she starts realizing that maybe things aren’t the way she thought they were. And maybe, just maybe… the person she really wants isn’t Sawyer after all.
This is a very cute story about a Christmas loving boy reintroducing a Christmas hating girl to the magic of Christmas, learning that you may have more things in common with the people you thought were completely different from you, and learning not to judge a book by its cover. Emery and Alex’s relationship is very cute and this is by far my favorite book in this series. So cute!

This was adorable, and I even learned a word reading it (triumvirate).

But there's no way she would have mixed up baking powder and flour. Different textures, different packaging...

1 (Thankfully Discussed Rather Than Demonstrated) Mopey Teenager with First World Problems, including
Deliberate Grade Sabotage
Cold Shoulder to Perfectly Nice Stepparent
Refusal to Do The Things She Loves to Punish Parents, which results in:

1 Parental Guilt Manipulated Study Abroad Program
OAXACA Mexico
1 Community Project
1 Snotty Host Sister
Delicious Surprise!Fried Grasshoppers
Environment/Cultural Enrichment Trips
Cliff-Diving
BABY TURTLES!

1 Neglectful Best Friend, Too Busy With
1 Irritating Player "Boyfriend" (Sleazy Variety)
1 Down-To-Earth Adorable NOT!Dating NOT!Boyfriend
1 Nerdy Troubadour with Aspirations of Don Juan (Sweet not Sleazy Variety)
Salsa Dancing

It was such a cute story!! ❤️

This is beautifully written story with a rich vocabulary. Nitty is an orphan on the run from her home, when she encounters a gentleman with these special green beans. While she is taking the beans she sees an elephant being hung in the middle of town. She and the elephant, Mags, have a very special bond and run from the town. They run into a dust storm and seek shelter in an old barn. This is where their adventure truly begins. A creative story that has mystery, magic beans, life lessons, and new love. While i enjoyed the story there were moments that I believe a younger child may not understand fully. There is also many words i believe will have children looking into the dictionary to find the meaning. Overall a great book with some mature detail that may be best suited for older children or for reading along with an adult and discussing your point of views throughout.

Nitty Luce runs away from Grimsgate orphanage, steals a pouch of magically green seeds, and steals/rescues an elephant that's about to be hanged, before escaping in a dust storm. Girl and elephant (Mag, short for Magnolious) wind up in Windle Homes' barn, and he grudgingly allows them to stay. But the town of Fortune's Bluff is suffering from ever-worsening "dusters," even as the dust storms die out elsewhere, and Nitty's new neighbor Twitch believes the mayor is the villain at the heart of the mystery and misfortune. A Depression-era, Dust Bowl tale laced with magic (the green seeds bear "froozle fruit," the mayor has invented a machine that sends targeted dusters, Nitty and Mag communicate almost telepathically) makes for a unique read - with a delightful, delicious vocabulary (Nitty gets many of her words from newspapers).

Recommended by a library patron.

Quotes

"Who needs expertise when you have confidence?" (47)

"Limitations are as plentiful in this world as the air we breathe. You think you can beat them. We all do, at one time or another. But we can't." (Windle to Nitty, 60)

Dreams are forces in themselves, strong enough to leave footprints behind in the imagination. (62)

Understanding a place and its people...was the best way to stay out of mischief when you didn't want it and to find it when you did. (83)

To say that one mysterious happening was impossible meant that others were, too. (121)

"How do you make peace with certain sorts of cruelty?"
"Maybe you never do."
"Maybe you bury them with your own better doings." (Ferdinand, Twitch, and Nitty, 135)

The difference between wanting and doing...is the difference between a paintbrush and a masterpiece. (141)

"Well, you can't be prepared for everything all the time." (Nitty to Windle, 184)

"There are limits to what people can bear." (Windle to Nitty, 207)

"Fear blinds folks from lots of wrongs they should see." (Twitch to Nitty, 218)

"Why is it that caring for another soul means you want to do what's best for them, even when it's hurtful to you?" (Nitty to Twitch, 300)

"Each and every one of us has a say when it comes to what is right." (Nitty, 336)

The chapter book is an easy read. It would be good for fourth or fifth grade students. It is an interesting story about a girl named Emery. She has a crush on a boy at the hot cocoa shop, next to the Santa photo booth she works at. She used to hate the Christmas holiday, but begins to enjoy it as her romance with Alejandro progresses. The moral of the story is to go after what you want, without changing yourself. There aren't many chapters in the book, so it is a fairly short read.

I'm going to file this book in my library under sociology and reference it when discussing ways women sabotage their lives. The main character is filled with bad character traits. She is deceitful. She is cowardly. She is manipulative. I am appalled that this book has so many positive reviews on Amazon. I certainly hope that young women don't come away from this fantasy thinking the way to a good relationship is to act like Lise Santos! On top of the fact that I disliked the character I was supposed to be bonding with, the book had completely unbelievable moments. Two teenage girls painting a nursery get into a fight and decide to throw paint on one another's faces? A boy who has been hiding the fact he is an artist and never shows anyone his paintings is happy to see that someone hung a bunch of them on the wall of a public place without his knowledge? This was a bad book. Suzanne Nelson has written much better than this.

Cat Wilcox has left chilly Boston for sunny Mexico and a summer of girl bonding with her best friend, Sabrina. But Sabrina has a surprise. She is accompanied by her boyfriend—a boyfriend Cat didn’t even know existed. So rather than Sabrina and Cat spending their study-abroad semester working together at the orphan school building site, Cat expects she’ll be hammering nails all by her lonesome. Then she meets Aidan. He’s cute, he’s smart, and he’s paying her a lot of attention. Cat can’t tell if he’s flirting or friendly, but she’s not sure it matters. Isn’t it easier to be just friends? But this is enchanted Mexico and, between hiking in the rain forest, diving off waterfalls, and finishing the orphan center, it’s going to take a little bit of salsa spirit, and a lot of heart, for Cat to make it through the summer unchanged.

Siena Bernstein is leaving her yoga mat behind for a semester of study abroad in Munich. She’s thrilled with the prospect of a German adventure (her horoscope is encouraging as well), but she hopes to make more than just her dreams come true while she’s there. Siena’s dad, who passed away when she was a baby, kept a "Carpe Diem" list—sort of his top-ten adventurous things to do. He completed all but one of the tasks—going to Germany to thank the man who helped smuggle his family past the Berlin Wall. Amidst her adventures in biergartens, Alpine skiing, and a rigorous course load, Siena is on a quest to complete her father’s list. But she’s also set on having the best possible time while she tries. With the help of two new best buds and a handsome RA in her dorm, she’ll surely succeed.

The ghoul next door
by: suzzan nielsen

Libby’s BFF doesn’t have time for her her secret crush has no idea she exists and she’s in danger of failing science. She doesn’t think her life can possibly get any more complicated until a ghostly pale girl moves in next door. Every time Libby tries to talk to Julia she has a strange way of disappearing. And when Libby sees the words Help Me scrawled on Julia’s bedroom window, she starts to suspect that something creepy—supernatural even is going on. and without her best friend no one is going to believe her. And julia helps libby with those problems. and libby and julia were best friends.
I liked the book because libby and julia became best friends .
I did not like this book because her other friends aren't friends with her anymore so they won't believe her.
I think this is a really good book.
I say this book **** four star book.
And the age would be 5+

A gentle and enjoyable story about a girl and her friends. I will watch for more books from this author and look forward to reading them.

Tessa likes working at the trendy food truck her aunt owns. They serve yummy BLT's to Tessa's schoolmates after school. Tessa feels like she is living her dream, but the dream is turns into a nightmare. The popular kid Asher starts working at the truck. He can't make a sandwich and Tessa thinks he is cute. When the food truck festival was canceled the food trucks future is in stake. Tessa and Asher have to put away their differences to save the truck.
You've bacon me crazy by Suzanne Nelson is a book like Cake Pop Crush. It has food, drama, and boys. It also has BACON !!! I recommend this book to people who like drama and bacon. The book is so good I was really into it. Suzanne Nelson had another book with really good plot and conclusion.

Alicia has been baking since she was little. Her family owns a bakery called "Say it with flour". Ali loves making cake pops, but her life turns around when a modern coffee shop opened across the street. The bakery is running for it's money, but worst of all the new kid in school is the coffee shop owner's son, Dan McGuire. He also likes to bake. Ali and Dan start a baking contest to see who can cater a party. She didn't win but a week later Dan came to the bakery and said that Ali actually won. They counted the votes wrong. So Ali saved the bakery.
Cake Pop Crush by Suzanne Nelson is very creative. Suzanne does keep you hanging at the end of the book and there is no sequel to the book. I gave it a rating of 5 stars because she is really amazing in making a Drama book with food in it. When you read the story you get so sucked in to it you don't even notice you're almost done. I actually got done in one day. I recommend the book to kids who are into drama books. The books that Suzanne Nelson writes are awesome.

Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.com

This installment in the S.A.S.S. series features Caitlin Wilcox, a student who is spending her summer in Mexico with the Students Across the Seven Seas program. Cat can't wait to spend time in Mexico, with its sunshine and clear blue ocean, to reunite with her best friend Sabrina, after spending the past few months with her mom and new stepdad in Boston rather than her sunny former home of New Mexico, and to practice her Spanish, a language she loves. Nothing, however, turns out as planned.

Sabrina has brought along her boyfriend, Brian, whose existence Cat hadn't even known of, and it's more difficult than it should be for Cat to get some face time with her best friend. Luckily, Cat quickly begins to make new friends; Aidan, Rachel, and Pete are all friendly fellow students. Even Izzie, Cat's host sister with whom she gets off to a rather rocky start with, turns into a friend. Spending her days building a school for orphans in the hot, humid weather of Oaxaca will be tough, but it'll be a lot of fun, especially with great friends!

When they're not working on the school, the students are doing their learning by traveling to nearby rain forests and museums. Cat and her friends are having a lot of fun, but she can't help but wish she had more time with Sabrina. Cat's even starting to suspect that Brian isn't as great as he seems, but she couldn't raise that issue with Sabrina...right? Cat's got her own boy troubles as well. Are she and Aidan just friends, or is there more to it than Cat would like to admit?

HEART AND SALSA is a fun read that will have readers wishing to escape to sunny Mexico right along with Cat! It's full of adventure in a foreign country, likeable characters, and romance. Cat is a character to whom readers will be able to relate, especially anyone who has ever had to move away from friends and family. The only reason Cat's mother agreed to let her go to Mexico was because they had just moved to Boston from New Mexico a few months ago, and adjusting is tough for Cat. While Suzanne Nelson's book is an entertaining, quick read, it's not particularly remarkable; it won't earn a place on my favorites shelf, but it was certainly worth reading!

a tomboy novel.

a loning to finish what her father started makes this a wonderful book

I thought this book was a little better than the others in the series. It had a great story about the Berlin Wall and the plot of the book was a lot more believable than some other books.I also found it really cool to learn so much about Germany(which is where the book takes place, not in Munich,Austria)½

Cat just moved to Boston and she hates it. Due to her mom's recent remarriage to the geekiest history professor in the world, Cat's had to pick up and leave all her friends in Arizona. She is not happy about it and, in fact, she's determined not to give Boston a chance. She'll get through her junior and senior years and then head right back to Arizona for college. And luckily, Cat's come up with a plan to escape Boston for the summer, too! Her best friend Sabrina told her about the Students Across the Seven Seas study abroad program. So Cat's going down to Mexico to spend her summer with Sabrina, catching up on girl bonding, perfecting her Spanish, and helping with a community service project.

What Cat did NOT expect was that Sabrina would have a boyfriend who also came to Mexico. Sabrina's blowing her off to hang out with her boy toy. Cat's new roommate Izzie (daughter of her host family) has taken an immediate dislike to her and calls her an American princess. Mexico's not what Cat thought it would be at all...

I've been wanting to try one of the SASS books and I really enjoyed it! It's a little formulaic, but there are a lot of details about the places they go in Mexico. There's a host of likeable characters (none of which are particularly deep except for maybe Cat), some comic relief, and a predictable romance thrown in. I'll definitely be reading more in this series. It's perfect escapism reading.½

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/youngreaders/features-sass.html

Siena Bernstein attends school in Munich for three months, where she perfects her German languague skills, flirts with her attractive resident advisor, and attempts to find the man who helped her father's family escape East Berlin in 1962.

This is da 3rd S.A.S.S book I've ever read. I like learning about these countries cities.
Sienna's mission 2 find da man dat helped her father's family escape east Berlin, finding a German-fling, and soaking up the culture. I give this book a thumbs up. I look forward 2 more S.A.S.S. books.