Sidecrollers by Matthew Loux

Brian, Brad, and Matt just graduated from high school and are spending their summer days lounging around playing video games and eating Slim Jims and candy.  Their peaceful laziness is interrupted by Amber, the cute new girl in town that Matt has an intense crush on.

Meg Cabot's recent novel How to be Popular was pretty much what I expected -- a girl finds a book on how to be popular, follows the advice, and soon finds that the popular people she seeks to emulate aren't all that great after all. As an added bonus, she falls in love.

 

Otto Malpense is not your average thirteen year old. He's lived his whole life in a run down orphanage in England, although he's been making sly improvements lately. When the Prime Minister threatens to close the orphanage, Otto takes matters into his own hands and takes down one of the most powerful world leaders all by himself.

What  books, movies, music and websites does Chase, age 12, recommend?