Artichoke's Heart written by Suzanna Supplee

            Do you love to read teen romance novels? Well here is a teen romance novel that I would recommend and it is personally one of my favorite teen novels to read.

            Artichoke’s Heart is written by Suzanne Supplee in which she tells a story about high school student name Rosemary Warren.  Like most high school students, they face the typical high school drama, self-confidence, and family drama. Rosemary’s biggest high school drama that she faces all the time is her classmates calling her an artichoke based on her appearance of being over weight. Rosemary’s family problems at home are that her mother and Aunt Mary (her mother’s sister) keep on nagging her to lose weight, which makes her emotional eat more often, But despite being call an artichoke and being nagged by her mother and aunt, Rosemary has a huge crush on the school’s star football player, Kyle Cox. Throughout the book, Rosemary goes through some family struggle when she finds out that her mother has been diagnosed with cancer. Despite the struggles that Rosemary faces, she becomes determined to lose weight and show everyone that she just a person with a kind heart, not an artichoke, and that she is the type of girl that can get the man of her dreams.           

I personally love this book because I thought Suzanne Supplee did a great job with character development and introducing the characters’ and their own unique personality throughout the book. Also, I love the plot of the story as well because it is about how Rosemary falls in love with a guy who she thought he deserves someone better, but realizes that they are prefect for each other. Also, I love how Rosemary becomes beautiful after losing weight and finds ways to love herself and others in friendship and family.

            In concluding, if you love to read teen novels about a girl overcoming challenges and finding love in all the right places, then I would personally recommend Artichoke’s Heart written by Suzanne Supplee.

Trivia Questions: 

1) When Rosemary tells her friend, Miss Bertha, that she needs to stop by the drug store to purchase a get-well card, what is she actually purchasing? 

2) What are three ways that Rosemary did to lose weight? How weight did she lose? 

3) When Kyle Cox called Rosemary for the first time, what did he ask her to do? 

Supplee, Suzanna. Artichoke's Heart. New York, Dutton, 2008.Print. 

The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury written by Betty Macdonald

      For those of you who do not know Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, she is a short and stout woman who lives in a strange house by herself in a neighborhood that is full of children. Now, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves these neighborhood children dearly, even though she doesn’t have any children of her own she seems to always have a solution to help parents cure their children from their bad habits.

       The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury written by Betty MacDonald contains the three Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books into one giant book.  Betty MacDonald created Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle as a woman who knows how to solve all of the parent’s problems with their misbehaved children.  For example, Hubert Prentiss, a character in one of the stories, had a hard time picking up his room. His parents would always nag at him to pickup his toys. Thankfully, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle had a solution for the Won’t-Pickup-Toys habit, have Hubert play with his toys in his room and have his parents to not ask him to pickup his toys unless he eventually does clean his room himself. Eventually, Hubert did pickup his toys and his family was happy that Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cured their son.

            In my opinion, the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories are classic stories that I grew up with.  Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is a woman with a good sense of humor who knows how to turn a misbehaving child into a perfect one.  She is the woman who all the doctors and parents turn to for help solving their children’s horrible habit.

            In concluding, if you are the sort of person who wants to read a book that is full of hilarious stories of parents with misbehaving children and a funny woman who comes up with funny ways to cure the misbehaved.  I would highly recommend Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle written by Betty MacDonald.

Trivia Questions: 

1) How did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cure The Answer-Baker? 

2) How did Mrs. Piggle Wiggle cure The Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Taker?

3) How did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cure The Crybabyitis? 

MacDonald, Betty. The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1957.Print.

Comparing Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire written by J.K. Rowling

                                                     (left book UK cover right book US cover)




     If you want to see past comparisons of the Harry Potter books 1-3 here the dates that I have published them on my blog. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone - 4/8, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets - 5/4, and Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban - 7/21

     All right then, this blog is going to be short and sweet since I have compared the same description  numerous times about the UK and US of the Harry Potter books in my past blog posts so here is the differences of the UK and the US version of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. If you look through these posts you will notice that they have been compared by the same similarities and differences constantly. Such as, the font, the spelling, and the artwork. So just to let you know that nothing as changed with those in this book and the reason I am not mentioning the font, the spelling, and the artwork is so no one will comment, "OMG Laura! Stop saying the same stuff all the time!". Ok? Ok! :)

UK- 636 pages long: font is still different from the US version and the pages are smaller.

US- 733 pages long

The story is the exact same and the writing is pretty much word from word in both UK and US. Except for one tiny scene.

Scene: When Harry, Ron, and Hermione found out the house elf Dobby (character introduced in book 2) was working at Hogwarts along with his house elf friend, Winky. Dobby loved to collect clothes since he is a free house elf and he told Harry and friends that he wanted to buy a sweater one day.

UK - jumper
US- sweater

Well that's all I have for you on the comparisons of Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire.  Thank you so much for reading my blog. I will be posting the fifth book in the Harry Potter series sometime in the future.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. London, Bloomsbury, 2000. Print. 

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. New York, Scholastic, 2000.Print.