Dear Pen Pal

Book #147 Read in 2015
Dear Pen Pal by Heather Vogel Frederick

I wish this series was around when I was in middle school and my mother was still alive; I think we would have enjoyed reading these books together.  This is the third book in the series.  A group of girls are friends and members of a mother/daughter book club.  Each book focuses on a different group member but the chapters are told in alternating narration of all the girls.  In this book, Cassidy's mother is having a baby, Megan's mother and grandmother are still fighting, Jess heads to a private school etc.  These books focus on real issues faced by middle schoolers with the books that the book club is reading as a parallel story/backdrop.  I enjoy these books.