Introducing Sasha Abramowitz

I don't often read novels written for children. Owing to their simplicity and the educational methods their writers slip into the pages, they are often boring. For example, last night I was reading a book called Introducing Sasha Abramowitz. It is filled with side-notes about certain words being on the protagonist's spelling list for school(i.e. the author's method of teaching her readers vocabulary). The plot is not particularly riveting. But it does have a certain charm to it that compelled me to continue reading. Now that I am almost to the end, I'll probably have to finish it before I find a child to pass it on to. The story is about a girl who lives at a college with her parents who are professors. The book is predominantly relationship based, but the quirk is that Sasha comes from a family of nerds and lives among college students who are her friends along side other children of faculty at the college. The story is superbly innocent hinting just barely at the beginnings of adolescence. This made it difficult to determine what age bracket the story is intended for. This book would have been one my mother approved of, meaning, it is probably not all that appealing to 11-year-old girls.