Quick Plot: They're three girls, they're seventh graders and they all live on the seventh floor of a brooklyn building-- oh, and they're best friends. Over the course of a snowed in Valentines Day the girls evolve their friendship and learn to take fortune into their own hands.
Is the book good-- sure, I think it's a decent read. It's for the girl who is still reading the babysitters club series, but wants a challenge. The ideas in the book are cute-- fortune cookies which help people feel better about/create their own future; three close knit families completely in tact; an environment safe enough for tweens to run around in, in slippers; boys who are concepts, real enough to relate to the girl's obsessions; a building with lots of nooks and crannies--like a gym and laundry room-- with apartments which range from studios to four bedrooms(for lots of different types of people). My only issue at all is that this book is kind of like seventeen magazine, but it would be like 13 magazine. I'm just not sure how interested the average 10/11 year old would be in such a boy focused book. Of course maybe I'm just an old fogie ;-).
R.
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