Ten Things We Did: (and Probably Shouldn't Have) Sarah Mlynowski Author

Two girls + three guys + one house – parents = ten things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn't have. If given the opportunity, what 16-year-old wouldn't jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live... Read more

Two girls + three guys + one house – parents = ten things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn't have. If given the opportunity, what 16-year-old wouldn't jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe opportunity isn't the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: Lied to Our Parents). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up Skipping School (#3), Throwing a Crazy Party (#8), Buying a Hot Tub (#4), and, um, Harboring a Fugitive (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them. In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart...one thing-she-shouldn't-have-done at a time. Less