The president's daughter

Last year at ALA I picked up an advance copy of Long May She Reign by Ellen Emerson White from the magnificent folks at Feiwel and Friends. It's taken me a year to get around to it in my quest to finally read all the books I actually own, but I've been saving the best for last. Long May She Reign is the long awaited (so long that I thought there were only three and maybe the author had died or stopped writing back in the 80's or something) fourth book in a series about a teen girl who's mom runs for and wins the presidency of the United States.

I remember reading the first book back when I was about ten or eleven and then devouring the series as it came out. It's not a fluffy girl book either - Meg, the president's daughter, deals with a whole bunch of shit, especially in the later books - including her mom's attempted assassination and her own kidnapping and torture. But she's a believable girl dealing with extreme (yet believable) situations and I'd love to have her for a friend.

This fourth book picks up right where the third left off, which Meg and her family dealing with the physical and psychological effects of her kidnapping. I'm only about 150 pages in so far, but I've been sucked right back into her world.

If you've never read the series before (and you don't have to be a teenager to love them), Fiewel and Friends is re-releasing them with nifty new covers on July 22.