Cover Lover - How to Rock Braces and Glasses by Meg Haston

This cover rocks!
 

Publisher’s Summary: Super-stylish and uber-harsh, Kacey Simon is the social dictator of Marquette Middle School. She's BFFs with the prettiest girls, and she even hosts her own TV segment dispensing advice and the cold, hard truth to her classmates -- whether they want to hear it or not.

But then an eye-infection and a visit to the dentist leave her with coke-bottle glasses, a mouth full of metal, and... a littthp. Dismissed by her popular friends, she falls so far down the social ladder she can barely see the top, even with her magnifying specs.

With nowhere else to turn, Kacey has to hang with her nerdy neighbor and a boy who walks to beat of his own drum -- or rather, to the beat of the drummer in his band. Zander wants Kacey to be their lead singer, but she's determined to reclaim her throne. Will she climb back to the top? Or will she discover that hitting rock bottom kind of... rocks?

Why we love it: I was squealing with joy when this book came in because it reminded me of middle school. In seventh grade I was forced to wear glasses all the time and had a mouth full of metal braces so I can totally sympathize with the main character.

Now I don’t want to be accused of sipping on too much haterade but man am I TIRED of seeing such similar YA book covers. I love that this book looks so different-- like a page ripped out of a notebook belonging to a bored person sitting in class (most of my high school and college notebooks look like this only with more colors). The cover is totally adorbs and the premise of the book sounds like something most of us can relate to in some way or another, this book is definitely going onto my humongo-normous list of books to read.

Also, I just saw that Nickelodeon has turned this book into a new show called How to Rock. It debuts Saturday (February 4) at 7:30p.m. I might just have to set my DVR! If anyone catches it or has read the book, let me know your thoughts!