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Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 112 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (September 28, 2010) Book Summary: For a third-grader, Sophie Simon is one smart cookie. But she's no genius when if comes to calculating the high value of friendship, until she must use her incredible IQ to help out some classmates with parental troubles. My Review: Not every third grader reads college textbooks for fun. Most of them don't even read them at all! That's why Sophie Simon is unique: she loves calculus, reading, and she's really smart. So it is no surprise when she wants the new $100 Pembo Q-60 calculator. The only thing in her way is her parents. Ever since they saw a TV show about having a "well adjusted" child, they've been trying to change Sophie, and make her into a "normal" kid. But Sophie is far from normal--and she'll do anything to get that calculator. But getting $100 isn't as easy as it seems, still Sophie Simon will do any

"Every note that had rang out had been a painful reminder of the love he'd had for Kristine and a surprising degree of longing returned to bring back his heartache. But the longing he held was strongly  aimed at Annette." From page 134, The Phantom Diaries by Kailin Gow (YA, 220 pages, published by The EDGE) is available now. Book summary: What happens to the Phantom after the traged y at the Paris Opera House is the basis for this fantastic tale of The Phantom Diaries , loosely based on Gaston Leroux's classic, The Phantom of the Opera , but with a new tale and a modern twist. This new series for older teens and young adults is told through the eyes of 18 year-old Annette Binoche, who lands a job at the New York Metropolitan Opera House as a seamstress' assistant only to become the lead singer of the Opera House, with the help of the mysterious, yet highly-seductive Phantom. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of ShouldBeReading .