Two similar reads

I finished two books recently that seem like, likely candidates for my blog.  One is Little Blog on the Prairie by Bell and the other is Ten Miles Past Normal by Dowell.
Both of these books have a girls telling the story (boys it is still a good book...).
In Little Blog on the Prairie the main character is brought to Wyoming by her mother, along with the rest of her family for an authentic 1890's experience.  You quickly realize reading this book how much we take for granted.  Simply washing the dishes or not being able to order a pizza when you don't have the energy to cook.  In fact this family learns to live on beans, yes beans, for several days because that is all they have time to make.  The main character, manages to sneak a cell phone into this environment and texts her friends about her misery.  One of her friends decides this would make a good blog and decides to share her text messages with the world in a blog that she is creating for a class.
My first thought, wow, this is a good example about how texts can get out of hand quickly by going viral.  However, her friend did ask her first. 
Needless to say, a catastrophe ensues when the blog goes viral and she has to face what she has opened up about her family and the "1890's Prairies Camp". 

The second book I read first, but I loved the text to text connections I was making as I read this book.  Again the main character is a girl.  Imagine getting on the bus smelling of goat droppings!  This is what happens to this character.  It only gets worse when her high school starts calling her "goat girl" and worse. 
She also lives in the middle of nowhere or 10 miles past normal. She was the one with the great idea to have a"farm".  However, she had this idea as a fifth grader, but it isn't working well with her high school personna, that she wants.  She is trying to find a way to fit in to this new environment until she finds a "band" and begins playing bass.  Good read.