Rosie Charming comes from royal lineage. Call her lucky or not: Her mom is Snow, and her dad attracts chicks like bees to nectar. Rosie also has quite an interesting group of seven uncles who can be quite quirky. And let's not forget the talking mirror that dispenses unsolicited advice incessantly. All of this could give a girl a headache, but Rosie handles it valiantly. 

Now comes the Fall Festive adventure. Rosie very much wants to attend the social dance, but a slight problem nags at her—she needs to find a date. How will she do this in time and who will she ask?

Rosie notices her friends getting dates, which only increases her panic. She even goes to her mother and uncles for advice in a desperate search for answers. The teen bakes cookies and creates Kookie Kindness Day in an oblique search for the perfect Fall Festive date candidate.

Rosie manages to focus on the date project along with homework and other trivialities of her life in fairytale land. She looks at her parents' picture-perfect romance and struggles to match up to their idyllic lifestyle. Would it not have been easier to weather the storms of teenage angst without everyone seeming to already have a happily-ever-after?

Charmed, I'm Sure by Sarah Darer Littman, 2016

This is a very fun book; I love this author's style.

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Sammy Wallach's junior year of high school consists of two major obsessions: going to the prom with Jamie Moss, and learning disturbing revelations about her father.

Jamie is simply beautiful to Samantha. All her thoughts and dreams revolve around him, and she is always scheming and dreaming up delightful versions of a long-awaited prom-posal. The girl even devises a formula, complete with an 80% chance that Jamie will ask her out.

Every time Jamie so much as smiles at her, or looks in her direction, Sammy's thoughts flutter in anticipation. She longs for him to requite her crush. Meanwhile, Sammy's friends, Rosa and Margo, seem to have dates already lines up for the prom. What on earth is taking Jamie so long to pop the prom question?

Sammy's father is beset with a unique work issues. He is the CEO of a big bank, and protestors have taken to the streets to express their displeasure with big business. They obstruct his path to the office. Racist and sexist remarks in his emails raise the ire of the masses. Computer hacking reveals snippets of discrimination, and her father is ensconced in a cover-up effort. With all of these statements smeared across the newspaper, this is not the father Sammy used to know. Rosa has been hurt by the racist comments that Sammy's father made. How can Sammy make amends with her?

In Case You Missed It by Sarah Darer Littman, 2017

I am a big fan of Littman's; she produces brilliant work and this book, of course, is no exception.

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