Dear Dumb Diary is a fun book written by Jim Benton. This book isn’t really old, it was published at 2009 and it is still popular now. Dear Dumb Diary is all about a girl’s life. It is mainly about a girl overcoming her problem and at last she becomes friends with her enemy.

The plot is like this. The girl who writes the diary is Jamie. Recently her aunt’s dog is married to her enemy, Angeline. She is really happy. She has a friend called Isabella; she also loves puppies so Jamie promises to give her one of the puppies after the puppies are born. Isabella is so excited. Jamie goes to Angeline’s house and sees the puppies, but the puppies are still too small to give away. This situation is driving Isabella crazy. Jamie still hates Angeline, but not as much. When the puppies are old enough, Isabella and Jamie go to Angeline’s house to pick a puppy. Then they become best friends.

Dear Dumb Diary may seem like a fun book, but it actually contains more then just fun. It is a story that contains friend ship. It might be hard to believe they became friends at last because Jamie wrote a lot bad things about Angeline at first. You can get lot of entertainment out of this book. I think this book is a really fun book. Do you like fun books? If you like fun books this can be one of your choices. This book is suitable for everyone because every one likes fun stuff and learns something at the same time.

RULES by Cynthia Lord

Twelve year old Catherine yearns for a normal life and a normal brother, this is nearly impossible for her with a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She had spent years trying to teach her brother David "rules" such as 'keep you pants on in public' and 'if someone says hi to you, you say hi back' in order for him to be able to blend in with the scociety.
One summer, Catherine meets Jason, a boy from the clinic for occupational therapy. Catherine finds he is a suprising type of new friend, partly because he has a speaking disability and moves around on a wheel chair, and partly because he is the kind of understanding friend she had always yearned for. Catherine also meets Kristi, a next door neighbour she had always wanted. Everything seems fine until Catherines own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and she is forced to think: what is normal?
From this book, i learnt that judgment about a person cannot be made unless you really get to know them. Some people (e.g.~ people with certain disabilities) are often judged too harshly. A good is example from this book is when Kristi (Catherines new neighbour) first meets David and purposely points out to Catherinethat even normal brothers are a pain. This book overall was not only a easy book to understand, but it was also enjoyable and taught me many new things. I am sure everyone will be able to learn something from this book and I recommened this book to people of all ages.