The Freedom Writers Diary (Erin Gruwell) **

277 pages. Kristen and I read this book together. It is composed of diaries from a group of 150 students living in the hood in LA who wrote about the problems they were experiencing and how they bonded together to graduate from high school, fight intolerance, and make their lives better. At times we got tired of all the "Ms Gruwell is so great" [she's their teacher who helped put the book together, and it's definitely not for little kids (Kendrick) due to the bad words, etc. But overall, it was a good book.

New Moon (Stephenie Meyer) ***

This is the 2nd book in a series of three about a relationship between a normal girl and a vampire. The first was called "Twilight". It's such a good read! Romance, suspense, action, fantasy, etc. I'm really enjoying the series.