I had the opportunity in the fall to read my first ARC- an Advanced Reader Copy- of Seeing Cinderella by debut author Jenny Lundquist. It was a fun read and I loved getting to know the characters. I’m including a synopsis below, but all you need to do is take a look at the cover and know that it’s a book about middle school and magic glasses. 
Can you imagine what you could do with those?! While there is a lighthearted tone to the book, Ms. Lundquist also deals with real issues like friendship and secrets.
It’s available now on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You can even get it on your Kindle or Nook!
So, if you have a young reader in your life, or if you enjoy a good read yourself, this is a good one to check out.
Congratulations to Jenny Lundquist!
From her website . . .
Seeing Cinderella: Calliope Meadow Anderson is terrified to start seventh grade. Not that the summer has been so great— her overachieving best friend, Ellen, is slipping away, her parents’ marriage is falling apart, and to top it all off, she has to get glasses the day before school starts. Life isn’t going too smoothly.
But things get unexpectedly weird when Callie meets her wacky optometrist and receives a pair of glasses so ugly they make braces and headgear look cute. But pretty soon, Callie makes a freaky discovery. Her glasses have magic powers: they can read people’s thoughts (and she’s pretty sure they repel boys, too).
Callie uses her new glasses to navigate middle school life and learns things she never knew about the people around her. That overachieving Ellen isn’t so super confident, after all. That neither of her parents are who she thought they were. That it’s a good idea to make sure your crush Knows Your Name before you spy on his thoughts. But when the glasses show Callie that Ana Garcia—a new student from Mexico and Callie’s Spanish tutor—has become a real-life Cinderella in her uncle’s house, she has to make a choice. Will she stay in the shadows and hide behind her magic glasses, or step out of the background and stand up for her friend?
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