My name is Jessie Walters.
Everyone calls me Jessie, except Michael soemtimes calls me Jess. (I love that.) I'm thirteen. Michael's seventeen. ...
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Oct 05, 2007
Stephanie
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I first saw the television adaptation of this story, then was delighted and surprised to find the novel in the YA section of my local bookstore. I actually like the book more than the movie. It treats teenage love with the reverence it deserves. I also related so strongly to Jessie's desire for romance, glamor, and excitement at the young age of thirteen. The prospect of leaving my suburban home in NJ with a rock star harkened back to my earliest David Cassidy fantasies. (Yep, I wanted to run aw
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Oct 06, 2008
Snarky's
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"Sex education is a joke." Precocious 13 year old Jessie Walters surmises about three seconds before getting caught reading Babylon in Flames when she's supposed to be watching a Sex Ed filmstrip. Oops. I guess the joke's on her because about three pages later she meets Michael Skye, the shaggy haired 17 year old suburban rockstar (and Atlanta transplant) strutting his stuff at the local mall in Hackensack.
Jessie decides it's true love and so naturally cannot tell Michael( More...
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Dec 21, 2008
Eileen
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this is nostalgia at it's best...this book will never leave me again! i bought in online a few years ago..while it is written for junior high age girls, i feel like one again when i read it. it's a rock and roll teenage romance.
Nov 04, 2011
Kimber
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I read this book as a young teenager and thought it was fabulous. Reading it now takes me back to the days of first loves, the joy, the heartache, and the excitement of that first kiss...
Sep 24, 2008
Joanie
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I loved this book when I was younger and loved the movie adaptation too. A 13 year old girl gets a makeover at the mall and then goes to see a band play (also in the mall of course) and catches the eye of the lead singer (can't remember if he's over or under 18 but he's right around there.) She winds up taking guitar lessons from him and pretending to be older and they start dating but he has no idea how old she is. Everyone I knew read this book in junior high-loved it!
Jan 28, 2008
Steph Anne
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I dedicate this review to my 13-year-old self, who read this book a total of 30 times (I kept count). I still find the story very touching and will admit to owning a copy of the film (gone are the days when a career could be made by appearing in the right TV movie at the right time--see Rex Smith).
Nov 16, 2008
Danielleshanti
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This, Waiting Games, and Now or Never is the best young adult trilogy ever! Sooner or Later helped me realize, at 12, that I didn't have to write in complete sentences--woah. Love them!
Mar 21, 2008
elissa
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The main character in the book lies about her age, so that she can have a relationship with an older guy.
Mar 25, 2008
Kari
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Perfect book for girls to read around age 13. Might be outdated now, but it was very good in my day.
Oct 21, 2008
Kristin
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I read this as a teenager and loved it. I must have read it five or six times.
Feb 06, 2010
Dolly
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The sequel to Waiting Games - I read these stories many times as a young teenager.
Jan 20, 2010
Gina
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I read this when I was a young teenager and loved it. It was one of those books that made me fall in love wth reading. I found it and rebought it at a used book store and it is still sitting on myshelf now that I am 41 yrs old.
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