Betsy-Bee is ten years old, and she read:

Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur. A very sad book. Aubrey’s dad and sister died in a car crash, and then her mom ran away from her. So she had to go live with her grandma, and she meets a new friend named Brooke. Every chapter has a little sadness in it. Grade: A+

Jemma Hartman, Camper Extraordinaire by Brenda Ferber. Good book. Jemma gets to camp, and she thinks it’s going to be perfect with her best friend, Tammy. But her best friend’s cousin comes to camp, too, and Tammy spends all of her time with the cousin instead of Jemma. Grade: A-

Callie’s Rules by Naomi Zucker. Callie’s family isn’t really poor but they have a lot of kids. The mom and dad are kind of weird. The mom of the popular girl at school talks to Callie’s mom about replacing Halloween with Autumn Fest. Callie and her friend try to keep Halloween. Grade: A-

Red White and True Blue Mallory by This one was a cute little book. I learned some stuff about Washington, D.C. Mallory’s best friend deserts her and just wants to talk about this boy named C/Lo aka Carlos. Grade: B+

Boy Trouble (Claudia Cristina Cortez) by Diana Gallagher. This book is very short, and it’s about boys. Claudia, who’s thirteen years old, ends up with the boy she always dreamed of. The book didn’t have anything bad in it, but there was a bully and a popular mean person. Everything turned out OK. Grade: C-