BeTween the Pages: Myracle Knows Tweens!
If you haven’t introduced your tween to Lauren Myracle and her books yet, take a trip to the library or bookstore, or browse amazon.com together to discover the wonderful world of Winnie and her life through the books Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen and Thirteen Plus One! These are perfect books for your budding tween daughter to read along with you or on her own.
Winnie, the main character of Lauren’s books, also dubbed as “The Winnie Years,” deals with all the emotions and escapades your own daughter will experience, and then some. These adorable books all begin on Winnie’s birthday in March and take the reader through her year of being that particular age. Winnie must determine who her real friends are, she has to deal with her older grumpy teenage sister, and a younger babyish brother (she may get a new sibling along the way too!). She’ll get her ears pierced, go bra-shopping with her mother (the horror!), attend sleep-away camp, express nerves about heading to junior high, begin to develop physically, get her period, get her first boyfriend, get in fights with her first boyfriend, and experience her first kiss. These books are like pseudo-training manuals for the stuff your tween will also experience around the same ages!
Here’s something to note if your daughter wants to start reading any of these books: She doesn’t have to read the one that correlates to her age. In fact, even if she’s 8, she can read these books. Take a look at the novels and ask her which one looks most interesting. You know your daughter best and can judge her maturity level too, so choose the right book together to read.
These books have been New York Times bestsellers and Lauren Myracle appears to be the Judy Blume of today for our young daughters. Booklist even says, “Fans of Judy Blume will want this,” of Thirteen. Myracle has a knack for knowing how young girls feel about growing up and her books for tweens appeal to their ever-changing emotions. These are great books to add to your daughter’s library that might also help get conversations started about topics she may be afraid to bring up on her own!
About the Author:
Stephanie Elliot, in no particular order, is a wife, writer, blogger, book reviewer, editor and mother to three kids, two who have already been tweens, and one who is right smack in the middle of his tween-ness. Her oldest son is almost driving and her daughter survived her tween years so Stephanie must be doing something right. Find out more at stephanieelliot.com.
