Tween Girls- Last Minute Gifts

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Published 12.22.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (1)

I was at the bookstore this past weekend with some tween girls (the girls are older tweens - they're 12-15 years old). In case you need some last minute gifts, here are the top 3 books that are on their "Gotta Read List" this week! Or if you're shopping after the holiday with their gift cards, show them what a cool mom you are and lead them to these books. I love it when they wonder, "How does she know about this?"

1. Girls who want to hang out with southern girls, are picking The Peaches Series. It's about three very different girls: Birdie would rather eat Thin Mints and sulk in the A/C. Leeds would prefer to sneak off with her boyfriend, Rex. Murphy would much rather cause a little mischief. Together these three girls discover the secret to finding the right boy (Hey, I have some friends that should read this!), making the truest of friends, and picking the perfect Georgia peach.

2. Girls who love the supernatural, went with Love is Hell. Reviews from the book's website: Sure, love is hell. But it,s totally worth it. In these supernatural stories by five of today's hottest writers—Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely), Scott Westerfeld (Specials), Justine Larbalestier (Magic or Madness), Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere), and Laurie Faria Stolarz (Blue is for Nightmares)—love may be twisted and turned around, but it's more potent than ever on its quest to conquer all.

From two students who let the power of attraction guide them to break the hard-and-fast rules of their world to the girl who falls hard for a good-looking ghost with a score to settle, the clever, quirky characters in this exciting collection will break your heart, then leave you believing in love more than ever.

3. Ink Exchange is the sequel to one of their favorite books, Wicked Lovely (for girls 12+): This is a review from one of the girls: "After everything that happened to her friend Aislinn, Leslie is questioning the paranormal stuff that is happening around her. It started off as getting a simple tattoo, a tattoo that would be a part of her forever, and the one that she chose changed her life and she is sucked into a world full of fairies and hard decisions. If you read Wicked Lovely, you will devour the Ink Exchange, it's an amazing sequel."

Wizards Beat Vampires at bookstores

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Published 12.17.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

Twilight was "the next Harry Potter" for a short time... until our fave wizard scribe released her spin-off, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard."

It has sold almost five times as many copies in its first few days after publication as its nearest rival, Guinness World Records 2008.

The success of the 109-page collection of short stories, which Rowling did not originally intend for publication, underlines the powerful hold she continues to exert over readers – and the book industry.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard – mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the latest book in wizard boy series – sold 367,625 copies in the first three days after publication on December 4.

More Story Here: Harry Potter: The Tales of Beedle the Bard becomes fastest-selling book of 2008

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Advice Book From 9-Year-Old to become a movie

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Published 12.16.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

Twentieth Century Fox has optioned rights to “How to Talk to Girls,” a newly published advice guide written by Alec Greven, a 9-year-old published-author on the subject.

The advice seems simple enough to follow: Greven’s tips range from the facts of life ("Sometimes, you get a girl to like you, then she ditches you. Life is hard, move on!”), to getting a girl’s attention (”Show off a skill, like playing soccer or anything else that you are good at.”) to talking to girls ("You also have to be aware that girls win most of the arguments.”) to dealing with crushes ("It can be very hard to get a girl to like you. Sometimes it takes years! Whatever happens, just don’t act desperate.”).

Full Story Here: Fox learns "How to Talk to Girls"

The All-American Tween-Teen

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Published 12.15.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

From a California punk to a Georgia drag queen, the pride and passion of a generation coming of age.

More photos at MSNBC.com This photo and the others excerpted from It's Complicated: The American Teenager by Robert Bowman.

Tween Girls still love her: Britney's "Circus" is No. 1

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Published 12.12.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

TWEEN GIRLS are “flippin tired of all the junk ppl have been saying about her!!!”

"And she’s like old Britney with the long blond hair, toned-up body and making sexy videos, and that’s resonating with her old fans,” Davis says.

Weiss says the star deserves credit for knowing her audience well and changing with the times: “Despite all the craziness and paparazzi and people chasing her around, she’s not that dissimilar to a lot of the girls buying her records.”

Will those Scary Santa photos embarass your tween?

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Published 12.11.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

I read the following today and thought, "Wait til these kids become tweens... this book will be in their pile of "ways my mom embarrassed me!"

GMA Weekend will be featuring a new book entitled, Scared of Santa: Scenes of Terror in Toyland, authored by two writers from the Chicago Tribune.

Is Your Kid Scared of Santa? Send Us a Photo!

"GMA Weekend" wants to see your photos of terrified tots sitting on Santa's lap.

Adventurous Holiday

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Published 12.01.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

This week, we'll see this featured on the morning talk shows... but we're blogging about it on Alphamom now. Adventurous, fun and exciting things to DO with your daughter (or son or husband or BFF) this holiday (or anytime!).

1. Wolf watch experience (After Twilight who wouldn't want to do this?)
2. Feed sharks
3. Dig for dinosaur fossils
4. Be the girls on the flying trapeze
5. Ride in a dune buggy
6. Learn to snow kite
7. Train seals with a seal trainer
8. Go indoor rock climbing

Discovery Channel has a ton of Crazy cool experiences starting at $50.00.

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Tween Girl Gift Giveaways

Each day this week (starting December 8) you can enter to win an awesome prize at our partner site for tween girls, AllyKatzz.

Just head over there and enter your email address (and confirm that you are over 18).

If you are the lucky daily winner, they will contact you via email to get your mailing address to send you your prize. Simple! And since they are our BFF, we trust their word that they we will not give your email address to anyone. They are a SAFE site for tween girls. They NEVER share personal info.

Tween Girl Twilight Dissers?

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Published 11.18.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

Here's a quote from a tween girl on the Twilight book series:

After reading Twilight, I got hooked and read the next two novels, but got sad again when I had nothing to read, so I reread Twilight. When I reread it, I started to really hate it.

Twilight Debate Continued Here.

Get It! Target Tween 2-Fer.

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Published 11.17.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

Found this on Gizmodo:

Is it a gift card with a digital camera, or a digital camera with a gift card? We're not quite sure, but this holiday season, Target will begin selling a combo gift card/digital camera, giving customers something to do with their gift certificate other than just spending it while being insulted that a loved one didn't put a little more thought into the present.

More Story...

Science Class or Sex in the Bathroom?

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Published 11.14.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (2)

This summer, when the Tyra Show posted a survey on sex, drugs and violence, more than 10,000 teen girls and young women were shockingly honest about what is really happening in their lives. And what they said will blow you away. What did the Young Women in Crisis survey results show?

More girls than ever are kissing other girls, becoming sexually active and actually trying to become teen mothers! What's the result of all that risky business? The survey found that the average girl loses her virginity at 15 -- and more than half of the teens having sex are doing so without protection! Many of them are even having sex at school. All that activity might explain why one in three girls said they were afraid they have an STD!

Delivering the survey results on the Tyra Banks Show today is a “real” 15-year-old girl who tells her story: she lost her virginity when she was 13 and has had 9 sexual partners since then. This girl will get to school and her locker will be covered with “slut” and that 9 partner count will quickly grow. Instead of putting her on TV, Tyra should get her and her parents some professional help.