This is the first year that thirteen-year-old Lily and her best friend, Charlotte, will not be attending summer camp together. While Charlotte attends Young Executive Camp for three weeks, Lily is stuck at home with her boring parents, who think visiting the Quilt Museum is fun for the whole family. At a cousin's wedding, Lily meets distant relatives, the LeBlancs, and the summer starts to look up. The LeBlancs wear fashionable clothing, work as environmental fundraisers, and drink only green tea and water with lemon. Although Lily's parents warn her to stay away, Lily secretly becomes friends with their daughter, Karma. When Charlotte finally returns from camp, Lily must choose between her level-headed, future business woman bff, or the glamorous and worldly Karma.
Lily hopes to be a world-renowned writer someday- she even addresses readers as F.B.s or Future Biographers. Although she is keeping a journal for an English assignment, she takes the task very seriously, recording every moment of her summer days. Through the journal, the reader is given a play by play on Lily's life, and her hilarious commentary will make you lol.
Ultimately, Lily learns to make decisions independent of her parents, even if her Mom and Dad were right all along. She also learns what true friendship is all about. Lily B. on the Brink of Cool is the first in Kimmel's Lily B. series and I think it will appeal highly to girls ages 8 and up.
Kimmel, E.C. (2003). Lily B. on the Brink of Cool. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-000586-6
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