Junie B. First Grader Cheater Pants by Barbara Park

Junie B. First Grader Cheater Pants by Barbara Park - 86 pages

In another hilarious story by Barbara Park, Junie B. is up to her normal antics.  She knows that cheating is wrong but copying homework isn't really cheating, is it? Junie B. isn't able to finish her weekend homework and is given a break when May leaves her homework on her desk to take the attendance to the office.  Junie B. decides to copy May's homework but doesn't realize that the homework assignment is to talk about what she did that weekend.  When Mr. Scary realizes that Junie B. copied May's homework, he has a stern talk with her about cheating.  She swears she won't do it again, until the very next day there is a spelling test that she forgot to study for.  In the end, Junie B. admits to cheating on the test.  This is another great book by Barbara Park with a valuable life lesson.

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight- 400 pgs

Kate Baron is in the middle of a meeting with a client of her high profile law firm when she gets a call telling her she needs to come pick up her daughter, Amelia, from school immediately.  Amelia has been caught cheating on a paper.  This is way out of the ordinary for Amelia.  She has a 4.0, goes to an exclusive private school in Brooklyn, etc.  When Kate arrives at the school, it's worse than she can imagine:  Amelia has committed suicide by jumping off the roof of the school.  A few weeks after Amelia's death, Kate receives a text that says Amelia didn't jump.  What follows, is a mother who realizes that she doesn't know her daughter as well as she thought she did.  Told through Kate's eyes and flashback's told by Amelia, it all leads up to what happened that fateful day on the roof.