Illiteracy sucks, but Kimberly Pauley rocks!
An excerpt from Kimberly Pauley’s Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe):
So, you think your life sucks? Try being Mina Hamilton. Her parents are vampires, which would sound cool if they weren’t so boring and parent-like. And now Mina has to decide whether or not she wants to be one too…in a month. As if high school wasn’t bad enough, now she’s got to go to vampire classes with a bunch of freaks who actually want to drink blood (Gross! As if sushi wasn’t bad enough.). And she can’t even tell her best friend about any of it, not with a bunch of red-tape-loving vampire bureaucrats breathing down her neck. How’s a girl supposed to find a prom date and get through school with all this blood-sucking drama going on?
Kimberly Pauley is the author of the young adult comedic gem Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe) and the soon-to-be-released follow up Still Sucks to Be Me: More All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton Smith, Teen Vampire.
Pauley (a.k.a. YA Books Goddess) and Young Adult Books Central founder has decided to design t-shirts with her character Mina’s doodles, from cool bats to vampire squirrels. She opened The Sucks to Be Me T-Shirt Shop and she has decided to donate proceeds from her shop to Open Books!
Thank you so much to Kimberly Pauley for writing wonderful young adult fiction and for pledging her shop’s proceeds to promote literacy. Illiteracy sucks, but you rock!
