tabatha says

The jaded adult in me would like to say something flip about the autobiography of a 16 year-old--something like, I prefer to read an autobiography of someone who has at least reached 21, or can at least vote.  But since I well remember being clustered around the television with my sisters on Saturday mornings watching the Jackson 5 cartoon which featured truly horrible animation and a snake named Rosie, I think that I will try be more respectful of one of my daughter's favorite performers.

First of all, let's talk about the movie.  While the movie was alot of fun except for a kind of hokey and unrealistic ending, the experience at my local theater could have been a bit improved because they seemed to not understand that Hannah Montana and a school holiday combine for screamingly excited tweenish girls and irate parents, a mix that often leads to trouble.  Luckily there was only one incident, which I ended up breaking up when two mothers got into a shoving match on the escalator.  When I pointed out to Jordan that we could have easily gone to see the movie on a much calmer day like Sunday or Monday rather than the first show of the first day, she gave me a grim, eerily calm stone face which means that if there is a sequel, I will probably be on the same line again.

Now as far as her autobiography goes, if you have a girl between the ages of 8 and 12, Cyrus' take on every girl issues such as friendship, self-esteem, boys and other tweenish topics are presented with humor and a lack of pretensions that is pretty nice and make a for a nice breezy read.  I should note that Jordan has already read three unauthorized Mily Cyrus biographies so getting things in her own words adds a nice spin on things.

Other things we are reading:

As we march through Jordan's library fines, (I think I mentioned that we are doing a program called "read a way your fines"  at our local library) we did our first American Girl "Molly" book and found that as enjoyable as the others.  Jordan likes to go to the library and find two copies of the exact same book and she read one copy while I read the other.  Then we discuss it.   I am okay with this as long as I don't see anything from one my favorite authors!  Also, I have to be careful because if she is ahead of me, she loves to spoil the plot.  Anyway, we earned another two bucks towards the fines so it worked out quite nicely.