BRAS & BROOMSTICKS by Sarah Mlynowski
    Category:  Paranormal
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 6+
    Release Date:  2/22/05
    Publisher:  Delacorte
    Reviewed by:  Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
    Rating: 5 Stars


    Being fourteen is hard work, and nobody knows that better than Rachel Weinstein. She's got a major crush on the
    two most popular guys in school, Raf and Mick; she's been dumped by her best friend since preschool, Jewel, and
    instead has hooked up with not-so-popular Tammy; she's got the rhythm of a baboon and so didn't get to audition for
    her school's all-important fashion show; she's a quasi B-lister instead of a coveted A-lister; her dad is getting ready to
    marry the most annoying soon- to-be stepmother in the world; and now, to top things off, she's found out that her
    younger sister, Miri, is a witch. Seems mom is a witch, too, but had decided to live life without her powers, and now
    Miri's inherited her mom's special gift.

    Oh, the horror, the unfairness, the indignity! Not only did Miri get the boobs, but now she got the special super
    powers! Miri, who makes anal retentive, obsessive-compulsive list-makers look like chaos magnets, can now do just
    about anything she sets her mind to. Things which include, with a little bit of nudging from Rachel, giving her big sister
    a dancing-is-my- friend spell, getting their dad to break up with STBSM (soon-to-be-stepmother), and banishing
    pimples from their lives once and for all.  Things don't work out exactly as planned, though, the way things tend to do
    when you mess with the powers- that-be. Just when Rachel thinks she's finally got it all--smooth skin, a hunky maybe-
    boyfriend, a spot in the coolest gig in school, a dad and mom that could be getting back together--things come
    crashing down.

    BRAS & BROOMSTICKS is an absolute riot! I loved this first book in a new series by Sarah Mlynowski. Rachel
    and Miri make great sisters, the situations Rachel gets herself into are hilarious, and the overall feeling is that life is
    hard, but sometimes you just have to deal with it. I can't wait for the next book, FROGS & FRENCH KISSES, to
    be released!
Bras & Broomsticks
by Sarah Mlynowski