Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Coming of Age
3.6
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Sarah Mlynowski
Praised by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Myracle as “hilarious, moving and flat-out fun,” and Kirkus as a “pitch-perfect rendering…of the teen experience,” Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have) has captured the hearts of critics and readers alike.Fans of Sarah Dessen, E. Lockhart, and Maureen Johnson will love this hilarious and heartwarming tale of a girl on her own for the first time.If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn’t jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe “opportunity” isn’t the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: “Lied to Our Parents”). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up “Skipping School” (#3), “Buying a Hot Tub” (#4), and, um, “Harboring a Fugitive” (#7) is a mystery to them.To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart . . . one thing-she-shouldn’t-have-done at a time.
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Author
Sarah Mlynowski
Pages
387
Publisher
Harper Collins
Published Date
2011-06-07
ISBN
0062084615 9780062084613
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"I love this book, already read it 4 times! "
Sam
"Oh man, the stuff that these kids did! This book was a lot of fun to read. While it didn't go exactly the way I thought and they didn't get into nearly as much trouble as I expected, I had enjoyed reading it.<br/><br/>Noah was a jerk. I didn't like him at the start. We didn't get to see him when the relationship with him and April were at its best, but still, I thought April could have done better. He seemed a bit flaky. And I was highly surprised as some of the real life issues that were played out in this novel. Shocked a little, but since kids go through sex ed (at least I did, don't know if it has been managed to be kicked out of every school), they aren't strangers to the risks and I think this puts the mentality of 'that will never happen to me' to the forefront. Very well done, I thought.<br/><br/>I was wondering how the author would pull this off. The premise is very intriguing but when I read the blurb I thought there was no way to pull this off realistically. But I was proven wrong, to a point. I'm not sure that April's dad should have fallen for the emailing scheme but he did. <br/><br/>In the end, we had a very incredibly fun, whacky story of what two unsupervised kids can get into when anything is possible! Great writing, great story, pages of laughs, tears and teen drama. Sarah Mlynowski is definitely on my list to watch for!"
Aimee Gibson
"I loved it!"
Mary Linehan