Rothschild, Matthew.  Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. or Why Having It All Isn’t for Sissies.  Random House, August 2008.  9780307405425.  320p.  Grades 8-12.

The author, Matthew Rothschild, was abandoned by his mother to be raised by his two Jewish grandparents in their exclusive, and very much restricted apartment building in New York City.  Matthew’s financial privileges were not enough to smooth over the troubles he had fitting in at home and at the many schools he kept getting expelled from.  This is a very amusing, and occasionally  tragic childhood memoir that I could not put down because it is so well-written!  – Arla Jones