Blog Tour: Don't Call Me Baby by Gwendolyn Heasley

Publisher: HarperTeen
Date: April 22nd 2014
Pages: 304
Source: Publisher
Age Range: Young Adult

Imogene's mom is, as long as she can remember, blogging about her on her super popular mommyblog MommyliciousMeg.com. Hundreds of posts and uhm..embarrasing pictures of her little girl, on the blog known as Babylicious.  Imogene is fifteen now, and she tried to stop her mom from blogging about her because it now starts to get REALLY embarrassing, without any result, her mom keeps blogging about how her little Babylicious is starting to get so grown up. Her best friend Sage has to deal with the same problem; her mom is the fanatic healthy food/vegetarian mommyblogger Veggiemom. Very funny when you are in your teens and you love a good dose of junk food daily.

When a blog project is start up in their class and all the students have to set up their own blog, Imogene and her best friend Sage come up with a plan. They start sort of a revenge on their moms on their blog, and the topic of their posts is that they are done with the fact that they are the main subject on the blogs of their mom's. They don't want the whole world to see how they comb their hair in the morning, or worse, that the whole world has to read that they got their first period. Now the roles are reversed, now their mom's and the bad side of mommyblogs are the topic of their blogs. The mothers aren't amused, and discuss this with their readers on their blogs, and the tense between Imogene, Sage and their moms grows.

I absolutely loved the whole plot of Don't Call Me Baby. I think that its great that the author picked a very important topic about social media and safety on the internet. I always wonder what is the use of starting a mommyblog, as I don't think it is safe to put pictures of your baby on a post, and I don't think you would like it when your baby life is always and forever there on the internet for everyone to see and I certainly don't see the point of blogs that parents put up just to post thinks like "' my baby ate his"/hers very first ice cream!''
So I understand Imogene's and Sage's fill of it. They where just fun and realistic main characters that you instantly like and want to be friends with. Their mom where kind of fluffy, Imogene's mom was only focused on her blog and the upcoming BlogHer conference, and didn't care that much about what Imogene thought of her actions. Then there where a few side characters: there is this popular girl in Imogene'c class who want to start her own fashion blog, and uses Imogene for advice and to be her personal make over model. There is also place for a little love story between all the blog issues: a cute boy from Imogene's class is inviting her to his party, and he wishes his parents where so awesome to write a blog about him, as they are always out of town and hardly notice him.

You see, Don't Call Me Baby has everything in it for a fast paced story and fun plot with lots of twists and turns. I loved how it is written and it is definately one of the new YA novels to read this spring!