Books like How to Be a Girly Girl in Just Ten Days

I wish my daughter was only interested in books like Secret Garden and Little Princess, but unfortunately she's often drawn to the pink ones with pre-teen bitchy looking girls on the cover. And these are the books she wants me to read to her for a bedtime story. Sigh.To say the least, I was not excited about reading this book. Most of these contemporary YA fiction is just crap. Most seems to have been written in a weekend from a YA fiction template. Fortunately, this little Candy Apple edition was actually fun to read! Really. I was shocked. It's well written and funny and the characters are likable. It was enjoyable. I hope that Ms. Papademertriou has an opportunity to publish some "real" books soon.