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My Secret Boyfriend
Jordan Sterling has had a boring summer, unlike the other girls at her high school. When she hears story after story of fun summer romances, Jordan decides she has to come up with her own special boyfriend. She brags about Ryan, a gorgeous guy she met "over the summer." But Ryan is a real person -- a boy she's known all her life. Luckily, he lives far away. So wh...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
January 28th 2004
by Darby Creek Publishing
(first published April 28th 1988)
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Dear me, to be in middle school again. While My Secret Boyfriend was fun and easy to read, I was amazed at how such a trivial plot could extend for the full length of a book. Not wanting to disappoint her friends and their new boyfriends, Jordan Starling makes up a summer romance with a boy across the country who she hasn't seen since she was a baby. Imagine her shock when the boy comes to live with her family following his parents' divorce. I suppose the theme of the book was about lies and tru...more
A romantic yet challenging book, Jordan struggle to fit among her friends. Over the summer, everyone was having good times with their boyfriends, but she was just having a normal yet single boring summer. So she decides to use one of her good friend as a disguise of a boyfriend. Unfoturnally, that good friend of hers named Ryan moved to her town and was in the same school as her. Everyone still thinks that they are in a relationship. Jordan didn't bother to tell Ryan and continues to act on. As ...more
Ah, what do you say about a romance book which is the teenage equivalent of a "adult paperback novel" (we all know what that means)? Did I like it? No. I found the plot WAY over dramatized, the dialogue shallow to say the least, and the characters so fickle I couldn't see how anyone could stand to talk to such a person let along willingly read the mindless dialogue. Unless you enjoy teenage drama and the "intricate" workings of high school relationships, don't waste your ...more
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This book was shockingly bad. It tells the story of an unmemorable narrator who makes up a boyfriend because she does not want to tell people about her uneventful summer. Perhaps it was a terrible introduction to Lurlene McDaniel but I don't think I have disliked a book with such passion since Notes From the Underground, and at least that one had literary merit. This book focused on such a trivial, meaningless subject. It gave absolutely no credit to adolescents or adolescent readers. The writi...more
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This book was just silly. (I mean, look at the cover—good grief.) The main character fabricates a summer romance to her friends and then the boy she used as her summer fling (the son of a family friend) ends up coming to live with her and her family. Oh, the drama! I didn't find the writing quality compelling, and the story a bit on the ridiculous side. I'd like to think that we can give our adolescents more credit when giving them something to read. Maybe some girls would lik...more
This book was just silly. (I mean, look at the cover—good grief.) The main character fabricates a summer romance to her friends and then the boy she used as her summer fling (the son of a family friend) ends up coming to live with her and her family. Oh, the drama! I didn't find the writing quality compelling, and the story a bit on the ridiculous side. I'd like to think that we can give our adolescents more credit when giving them something to read. Maybe some girls would lik...more
I gave this book two stars, not because i liked it enough to think it was okay but, because i was not disgusted enough by sappiness to throw the book down and refuse to read it.
My secret boyfriend is about a young girl who has a boring summer is the rockies with her family and when school starts up she makes up a story about a summer boyfriend. The lies, which she could easily stop, get worse when her made up boyfriend starts to go to her school.
This book sounds like someth...more
My secret boyfriend is about a young girl who has a boring summer is the rockies with her family and when school starts up she makes up a story about a summer boyfriend. The lies, which she could easily stop, get worse when her made up boyfriend starts to go to her school.
This book sounds like someth...more
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If you are a middle school girl, this book is just for you. Jordan comes back from summer vacation and nothing exciting had really happened. All her friends have new boyfriends and so she makes up a new love who is a distant family friend. When unfortunate circumstances occur, Ryan (her pretend boyfriend) has to come live with her family.
The story is about her friendship with Ryan and facing the lie she has told her friends and the whole school. Themes include friendship, loss, girlfr...more
The story is about her friendship with Ryan and facing the lie she has told her friends and the whole school. Themes include friendship, loss, girlfr...more
This book is set in 8th grade and I'm glad I was never like this in 8th grade. The only thing that made this book okay was the fact that the it's not really a romance. This book is about friendship, which I thought was better than romantic relationships which is what you would think from the title. However I think we can relate with the main character about how one little lie ends up growing into a whole web that we end up caught in. While I didn't enjoy this book, I was grateful that it wasn't ...more
English 425 Submitter’s name: Caitlin Turner__________
Book Bank Book Bank subject: Romance_________________
Reference information:
Title: My Secret Boyfriend
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Publisher: Darby Creek Year: 1988
# of pages: 125 Genre: romance
Reading level: 6th-8th grade Interest level: 11 and 12 years
Potential hot lava: talk about divorce
General response/reaction: I enjoyed it. I read it all the way through before putting it down....more
Book Bank Book Bank subject: Romance_________________
Reference information:
Title: My Secret Boyfriend
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Publisher: Darby Creek Year: 1988
# of pages: 125 Genre: romance
Reading level: 6th-8th grade Interest level: 11 and 12 years
Potential hot lava: talk about divorce
General response/reaction: I enjoyed it. I read it all the way through before putting it down....more
This book was a pretty good book even though it is very short. It was about this girl named Jordan how she is kind of jealous of others having a summer romantic. When people asked her if she has a boyfriend, she said she does but she was lying. She was telling people about her boyfriend or a guy she met named Ryan who actually moved to her house on Thanksgiving because his parents divorced. But Ryan did not know what was going on about the story of Jordan's boyfriend. Jordan kept lying more and ...more
Romance
This book is completely and totally ridiculous. Throughout the extremely short novel, I found myself wishing that I could be doing anything else. The book tracks a young girl as she gets caught in a web of lies about her secret boyfriend who ends up moving in with her. I was disappointed because I felt much more could be done with the story. Instead, it was a total waste of paper. Lurlene McDaniels, I've heard you are great, so I will be reading another one of your novels soon...more
This book is completely and totally ridiculous. Throughout the extremely short novel, I found myself wishing that I could be doing anything else. The book tracks a young girl as she gets caught in a web of lies about her secret boyfriend who ends up moving in with her. I was disappointed because I felt much more could be done with the story. Instead, it was a total waste of paper. Lurlene McDaniels, I've heard you are great, so I will be reading another one of your novels soon...more
I wish there would've been a second book to this story, it was too short. It was good though, therefore I can't complain. Lurlene McDaniel never seems to let me down while reading her books.
I read it in one night. The book was great but could have been a little longer.The book only hs about 124 pages easy read.
Romance/Young Adult Girls/Relationships
Lurlene McDaniel, Romance*
This book is completely and totally ridiculous. Throughout the extremely short novel, I found myself wishing that I could be doing anything else. The book tracks a young girl as she gets caught in a web of lies about her secret boyfriend who ends up moving in with her.
Lurlene McDaniel, Romance*
This book is completely and totally ridiculous. Throughout the extremely short novel, I found myself wishing that I could be doing anything else. The book tracks a young girl as she gets caught in a web of lies about her secret boyfriend who ends up moving in with her.
I think this is the 1st book I feel in love with. I can't remember any of the books I read, that weren't required for school, before "Where the Wild Things Are" (which was the 1st book I owned besides Dr. Seuss books). This book, My Secret Boyfriend, I read when I was in 6th grade. I fell in love with this book! I couldn't stop reading it. I still own my 1988 copy, actually. It's somewhere in storage(I should probably dig it out and re-read). It's a great book for teens full of love an...more
F McDA
This book was a really quick read for me as a 16 year old, but I would definitely recommend it for any girls between the ages of 10 or 11 and 14! The main character is in 8th grade, so it was a little juvenile for me, but I read it in less than 24 hours and I did enjoy it. It carries a very strong message throughout, and I look forward to sharing this book with preteen girls I know!
When Lurlene McDaniel has her stuff, boy can she write. This and the Dawn Rochelle series are the only examples of that, because they are funny and sort of realistic. This is about a girl who is upset because her friends all had great summers. So she makes up a story about a "boyfriend" (who is really her mom's best friend's son), and then, the fake boyfriend and his mom come to live with the girl's family. What wil she do?
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This was a short quick read. My teenage daughter loves Lurlene McDaniel's and I was interested in reading some of her books because it reminded me of my love of Judy Blume when I was growing up. Also, my daughter wanted the opportunity to share her books like I share mine. Cute story & I see why my daughter loves this author. I've only read one other book by this author because I have enough books of my own to read.
This is one of those books that makes me want to fall to my knees and cry out for a rewrite that goes for the cliche of the girl ending up with the boy she lied about and said was her boyfriend. Since that cliche was not fufilled, the story was left dry and pointless, in my opinion and I don't know why I bothered reading it.
This was way corny and dumb but entertaining and short ... it was surprisingly good !
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