Notes from an Accidental Band Geek

by Erin Dionne

Summary:  French horn virtuoso Elsie Wyatt resents having to join her high school's marching band playing a melliphone, but finally finds a sense of belonging that transcends the pressure she has always felt to be as good as her father, principal french horn player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Mrs. Turner's BookTweet:  This brought me back to my band days, where I was a not so accidental band geek.  Elsie's adventure as she navigates high school, band, and everything in between is not to be missed!

Little Blog on the Prairie

by Cathleen Davitt Bell

Summary:  Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.

Mrs. Turner's BookTweet:  Gen's voice and smart and sassy and her take on the world at Camp Frontier is laugh out loud funny!