The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love

The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love

3.15 of 5 stars 3.15  ·  rating details  ·  269 ratings  ·  51 reviews
In a new comedy from the best-selling author of CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN, two popular girls vie to out-green each other to snare a boy.

Fashion-crazy Sicilee is a poster child for over-consumption. Her archrival, Maya, wears arty vintage clothes but hasn't a clue what's in the food she eats. So when drop-dead gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot sets out to sprea...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published December 13th 2011 by Candlewick Press

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Adiana
The Crazy Things Girls Do For Love....
Come to think of it is actually true... This happens to everyone, every girl. I'll be honest with you even me. I do it all the time. Trying to be someone we are not just to get some guy-we think we are totally in love with- to notice us and to prove how much we are destined to be together!!!

Three different girls from very different clicks strive their way to get this one gorgeous new boy in school. The most popular and the most coolest girl in school, Sicile...more
Barbara
At first glance, the cover of this book might fool you into taking it lightly. Then again, the more I look at it, the more I see some of the symbolism and the connections to the book's theme of empowerment and becoming environmentally conscious. To tell the truth, I ended up liking this one more than I had expected to. The premise behind the story is that three girls, all quite different, have a crush on the new boy at their high school in Clifton Springs. While two of them, Maya and Sicilee, ha...more
Karen  Yingling
Sicilee, Maya and Waneeda all have their own distinct personality quirks, but when new boy Cody Lightfoot comes to town, they are all so smitten that they join an environmental group run by the geeky Clemens in order to get near Cody. Sicilee is the poster child for overconsumption (he wants her parents to enlarge her walk in closet because it's not big enough for all of her clothes) and thinks that vegan is show for vegetarian. Maya is a little more environmentally inclined, but still more inte...more
Mary
This is a light read about the lengths to which several high school girls Maya, Sicilee, and Waneeda) will go to attract the attention of a new classmate who is cool and good looking (Cody). When Cody decides that the Environmental Club is his ticket to instant popularity, the almost defunct club finds itself reenergized with many new members and a few new ideas. In their efforts to impress Cody, these girls find themselves putting real effort into learning about environmental issues, and even b...more
Sandra
When new student Cody Lightfoot shows up at school the girls are all a twitter. He's the hottest thing to grace the school's hallways and they all want a chance to be with him. When it turns out Cody is an environmentalist and joins the "loser" Environmental Club, the girls join with him and begin trying to out-green and out-vegan each other in the hopes of winning his heart.

The author, Dyan Sheldon, wrote this book in the present tense, which really puts the author right in the action. I though...more
Heidi
When new cute boy Cody arrives at school and joins the loser Environmental Club, girls at Clifton Springs High suddenly become more eco-conscious. Sicilee brings the movers and shakers with her while Maya wonders how to join the club without alienating the cool crowd. And then there is Waneeda, a social outcast who'd rather stay in the background. I appreciate the environmental story line and did laugh at some of the capers the girls came up with to draw attention to themselves; hormones are cer...more
Chrissy
If I had to describe THE CRAZY THINGS GIRLS DO FOR LOVE in just one word, I can't help but choose CUTE as my primary definer. I mean, really, it was just SO cute! And, okay, fun and adorable too.

Basically, this is the story of three girls from three different cliques who all go nuts over the same guy. Sicilee is the popular fashionista, Maya is the quirky artsy gal, and Waneeda is pretty much the social outcast. When attractive, charismatic Cody moves to town, all three girls instantly think he'...more
Cathy
This is a cute, light and fluffy romance about the lengths that three girls go to in order to get the same dreamy guy. It's pretty dopey, but fun too. I found myself yelling at the girls sometimes because the only reason they "liked" him so much was because he was cute. They didn't know anything about him, but they were willing to change everything about themselves in order to snag him.
Luckily, the girls learned a lot throughout the novel, including how to treat the earth, how to eat healthy, an...more
Sarah Szymanski
Mar 03, 2012 Sarah Szymanski rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: middle school girls
This book started out terribly. I think it should have taken place in a middle school, because the girls did not act anything like a typical high school girl would act, in my opinion anyway.
I didn't like how the girls completely changed themselves for one boy (save Waneeda, I suppose she wasn't as bad). In the end, I started to admire them a bit more, especially Sicilee, who I hated in the beginning, for what they were doing, but in general, I didn't like the book two much, aside from the last f...more
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The Crazy Things Girls Do For Love by Dyan Sheldon is a light, easy read, which is also sharp, funny, and witty! It shouldn't take you more than two days to finish it, because as I said, it is very light. (But unfortunately I've been so overwhelmed by uni work, so it took me 6 days.) If you're looking for something hilarious and enjoyable and easy to read, this book is for you!

The story sta...more
Rabiah
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I remember reading Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (after watching the movie) in the fifth or sixth grade, and I absolutely loved it. I was so excited when my request on NetGalley was approved for this book, and then started reading it around a month ago. I loved it! It was quirky, cute, and one of my "fluffy" type books– the kind I can read any day, in any mood.

Sicilee, Maya and (even though she's not mentioned in the blurb, whi...more
Michelle (FabbityFabBookReviews)
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Julia
I loved this book and once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. As well as having a great plot and being very realistic it taught me a lot about global warming and being green. I have definitely thought more about what I'm doing as a consumer. I think this book is a great read for teens like me to make us more aware, doing this through a fictional book is great because you don't lose interest and it encourages you to learn more about the origins of our products in a lighthearted way. A f...more
Meg
I try not to judge a book by its cover, but when it came to this book, I confess that I did. I was charmed by the adorable cover and the plot sounded really cute. But only two pages in I stopped. I couldn't bear to read on. #1) The opening paragraphs were so descriptive and run-on that my mind wandered away. #2) I could not tell who's point of view this was written from. A narrator? I don't know because, well, I didn't read on, but I really wasn't in the mood to read a sappy drawn-out book. Sorr...more
Raquel
Very funny book! The fact that there was no central character took a little getting used to but it worked. I was very environmentally minded as a teenager and now having read this I realize how different it is being an environmental minded teen today than it was 15 years ago. Back then it was required to go vegan to be green. Dyan Sheldon does a great job writing teen characters and this book is another example of that. I listened to this book on audio and found myself laughing in my car at nume...more
Josie Crimp
This is a fun story to read, and the author has a cunning approach to sending an environmental message where teenage girls are likely to read it (Hey, I'm veggie, I'm quite happy to read about other people turning veggie!) However, I felt this book really fell down in the way its present-tense narration kept slipping. Just decide if we're in the present or not and stick with it, please!
Catherine
I loved the premise, and the plot of this YA chick lit book was well-handled but oh! that dialogue full of cliches - it was enough to choke a horse ;-) Teens just wouldn't speak like that and I get that the author maybe was trying to lighten things up -maybe concerned about coming across preachy about "going green" but there were sooo many cliches it was distracting including the very outdated exclamations (eg."Sweet Mother of Mary!" and "Gott in Himmel") Still if you can overlook that, a light,...more
Katie Fitzgerald
Dyan Sheldon has a great ear for teen humor as well, and this book made me laugh quite a bit, particularly early on when the characters and situations are first established. Her tone borders on sarcastic, and creates this environment where we can look critically at every character and experience in the story to understand the greater things that are happening. At every point, the reader knows better than the characters, which makes the book work on a number of levels, and makes the reader feel c...more
Ernica
Jan 05, 2013 Ernica added it
started to lose interest halfway through when the book became too predictable and talked more about being green than the crazy things girls do for love.

besides even someone who's supposedly as good looking as Cody will seem normal after awhile.

and then it was pretty obvious that cody was using them but kudos to the girls and clemens for teaming up.
B
So the title indicates pure fluff but this turned out to be a more substantive read although still something teen girls will love. The new very good looking High Schooler, Cody, manages to make the eco club cool when he joins, bringing in many new members that aren't eco warriors, at least not at the beginning...
Anna
While sincerely appreciated the snarky, smart writing style, and I understand the whimsical appeal of the omniscient narrator thing, it just doesn't appeal to me...That, in combination with a cast of characters that (even more) sincerely annoyed me, rounds this one out to a (generous) 3 *'s.
Jenny
I think I expected this to be a little more young adult. It would probably be a better fit for the ten-to-twelve set. The dialogue was repetitive enough to be grating. Wouldn't recommend, except for the memories of my days on the bottom of the food chain in the high school earth club.
Stephi ♥
Cody is a sleaze just putting it out there. I liked Clemens from the start. I'm happy that it ended how it did, Cody got what he deserved, well who would be better!!
Anna
This book was okay, but kind of boring. It wasn't very exciting and it was kind of confusing at the beginning. I guess it just wansn't my style.
Ally Williams
This book was about three girls that are trying to impress the new guy by joining an environmentalist club at their school. They also become vegan and they have their fellow classmates sign petitions to save the trees in their hometown. I didn't really like the book that much but it was interesting. To me it was boring and not the best book that I have read.
Abigail
what can i say it was a big disapointment it was just to simple and it never got to the point and at times got a bit far fetched
Andrea at Reading Lark
Five chapters in and I dislike all the characters. This is not the book for me. I am not rating it since I didn't finish.
Pam
different kind of story - talks about high school girls and they learn some lessons - but really about the environment.
Danielle
OMG please stop saying "Sweet Mother of Mary!" and "Gott in Himmel". Who the hell says "Gott in Himmel" anyway?
Lucyjuice
good points of view but conatantly expecting to go somewhere exciting or unexpected and it doesn't
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Dyan Sheldon is the author of many novels for young adult readers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN, which was made into a major motion picture. American by birth, she lives in North London.
More about Dyan Sheldon...
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, #1) My Worst Best Friend Planet Janet (Planet Janet, #1) My Perfect Life (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, #2) And Baby Makes Two

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