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When Irish Guys Are Smiling (Students Across the Seven Seas)
For seventeen-year-old Delk Sinclair, studying abroad in Ireland means one thing: escape. Delk is tired of hearing about her friends debutante parties, watching her pregnant stepmother redecorate her mothers house, and having to smile sweetly even though she doesnt think shell ever get over losing her mother. Ireland is Delks chance to be happy. With the stunning gree...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
January 10th 2008
by Puffin
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Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com
Delk Sinclair can't wait to get as far away from Nashville, Tennessee, as she can. Her mother passed away two years ago, and her father has remarried someone that is only ten years older than she is. And her new stepmother is going to have a baby. On top of that, it's almost time to start presenting to society. Without her mom by her side, the last thing Delk wants to do is go through the frenzy of debutante preparations. So Delk finds herself i...more
Delk Sinclair can't wait to get as far away from Nashville, Tennessee, as she can. Her mother passed away two years ago, and her father has remarried someone that is only ten years older than she is. And her new stepmother is going to have a baby. On top of that, it's almost time to start presenting to society. Without her mom by her side, the last thing Delk wants to do is go through the frenzy of debutante preparations. So Delk finds herself i...more
I really like this series because they tend to feature strong and smart female protagonists that learn a lot about themselves while traveling and studying abroad. I love that I can share these books with my young teenage cousins and feel good about it. This is another great installment that I will happily pass along to young female readers. This particular installment follows Delk, a young girl trying to escape all of the changes in her life following the death of her mother. She goes to Ireland...more
Boring, childish and rather random.
I only read it because I absolutely love Ireland and I thought maybe it would be like "Anna and the french kiss" which had deep characters and a good plot. This meanwhile has very shallow characters and no depth or dimensions to anything whether be it the plot, the ending, the conversations or even the climax [there pretty much wasn't a climax]
I specifically disliked Pather because honestly, he was one of the most boring heroes eve...more
I only read it because I absolutely love Ireland and I thought maybe it would be like "Anna and the french kiss" which had deep characters and a good plot. This meanwhile has very shallow characters and no depth or dimensions to anything whether be it the plot, the ending, the conversations or even the climax [there pretty much wasn't a climax]
I specifically disliked Pather because honestly, he was one of the most boring heroes eve...more
I first saw this book on the new books shelves in the Teen section and the Irish cover caught my eye since I have Irish history and have always been interested in going to Ireland someday so I thought...why not?! I later discovered that the book is an ongoing series of S.A.S.S. (Students Across the Seven Seas). I first thought that Supplee the author of this book was the author of each book but it turns out that each small novel has a different author so each should have a different writing styl...more
This book is about a girl name Delk who travels to Treland through the S.A.S.S. Program. By traveling she believes she can leave all her troubles and stress behind, like her father's new marrige, her soon-to-be-born sibling and her materialistic friends. In Ireland, she expierences adventures that she would never have thogh possible. Along the way she makes new friends like Pather and along her journery, he helps her to realize the importance of family and friends.
I would recommend this bo...more
I would recommend this bo...more
I read this book partly because it sounded interesting. Partly because I wanted to go back to realistic fiction and partly because I want to say I've read all of Supplee's books to date. Our protagonist, Delk, has lost her mother. So to escape her life back in Nashville, Tennesse were her new step mother who is now pregnant and redecorating her house, Delk decides to spend a semester in Ireland.
I expected this to be light and fun. It was for the most part. And Delk grieving for her ...more
I expected this to be light and fun. It was for the most part. And Delk grieving for her ...more
When this popped up on my Goodreads and I saw it was set in Ireland, I thought, what the heck, may as well. WELL, I shall warn you now, if you are Irish, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT read this book.
It's terrible. I don't know where the author got her information about how Ireland works, but it's way off. It's so off, it's not even cliched. I read somewhere that she visited the West of Ireland but she must live in a completely different West of Ireland that I live in.
The book in g...more
It's terrible. I don't know where the author got her information about how Ireland works, but it's way off. It's so off, it's not even cliched. I read somewhere that she visited the West of Ireland but she must live in a completely different West of Ireland that I live in.
The book in g...more
I thought this was brilliant, the troubles she went through was quite different from all the rest I've read of this series so far, and it was such a fun book to read! Suzanne Supplee did a wonderful job, the scenery in the book, the characters and the minor and major issues that the characters under-went.
Pather and Delk together, the things that were written about them, was honestly just so sweet and romantic and just captivating, I love this series, it's just so good! The irish culture an...more
Pather and Delk together, the things that were written about them, was honestly just so sweet and romantic and just captivating, I love this series, it's just so good! The irish culture an...more
i wish i had read this when i was in high school. it was very sweet and gave a positive message of encouragement to anyone facing the challenges of growing up. it is definitely a young adult book, but i liked this author so much (the artichoke's heart) i just wanted to read everything else she had written. it is smartly written and is just the kind of book i would have wanted to read when i was a teenager.
I love the SASS series. These are great reads for girls ages 13 - 16 (perfect for summer).
Each book is a stand alone story but all of them have the same premise. The SASS (Students Across the Seven Seas) program is a semester abroad program so each book features a different girl headed off to a foreign country.
Each main character has her own issues to solve while learning about the country they are living in. Girls will love the believable, every day issues while paren...more
Each book is a stand alone story but all of them have the same premise. The SASS (Students Across the Seven Seas) program is a semester abroad program so each book features a different girl headed off to a foreign country.
Each main character has her own issues to solve while learning about the country they are living in. Girls will love the believable, every day issues while paren...more
Cute story. I really like these SASS books because while reading the story one can end up learning a lot about the country the book features.
This particular one was a fun read but I couldn't get a sense of a real ending point. I felt that the story faded without the protagonist's conflict totally resolved.
Still a good read.
This particular one was a fun read but I couldn't get a sense of a real ending point. I felt that the story faded without the protagonist's conflict totally resolved.
Still a good read.
Ok this is a cheesy little romance. It is a series that I am going to book talk for my resource kids. In the series a girl goes on a semester abroad to a different country. I read the Irish one since I had been to Ireland. Too bad it doesn't take place in Northern Ireland. Anyway, now I can book talk it.
This is a light, teen, chick lit read, but it doesn't insult anyone. Its clean, the characters have genuine concerns, and they develop--which is more than I can say for the current 'sexually promiscious,pill popping, prada wearing,anorexic, socialite' culture that has infected most light teen lit.
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I just loved this book. It was a totally simple and quick read, but I loved it. Great story about young love and loss and families and friendship and Ireland...oh, Ireland.
This book was a fun read and made me want to visit Ireland some day. I liked learning about the culture and imagining the beautiful scenery and green grass and sheep.
My favorite book of the SASS. It is a book that shows you that many people can come together even though they come from across the world.
Cute, nothing deep, but really cute. And really makes me want to go to Ireland.
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This was a pretty awesome book. I recommend it to, well, anyone I guess.
I really love Ireland! and this book brings justice in describing the place..
I really enjoyed this book <3 I hope to visit Ireland one day.
I love Ireland!!!!
I liked the imagery and the wide-range of characters. well done.
Delk needs to get away from home. Her mum died two years ago, her dad re-married to a girl 30 years his junior and now she's getting a new step-sibling. So when an opportunity for her to go to Ireland on a S.A.S.S. programme presents itself how can she say no? Instead of going there just to get away she ends up absolutely falling in love with the place, and the boy she meets there.
It was an easy read that didn't have a terribly good storyline but, what the hay.. I still thourally en...more
It was an easy read that didn't have a terribly good storyline but, what the hay.. I still thourally en...more
Ireland
I like how the SASS program is developed and written by some many different authors and their experience they have with a certain country and its cultures! This one was alright.
This was a cute romantic read for teens. Delk is from Nashville, and she just wants to leave her old life behind and start fresh in Ireland. She hides the fact her mother died two years ago from everyone but the cute boy who lives on the farm next to the castle the Students Across the Seven Seas program uses for a school. But Ireland has a magic way of changing people, and Delk begins to learn that life can go on, even if things change.
It was a good book overall but I must say it was a little too boring to reread.
I read this book in a day. I Had a friend over when i bought it . SHe bought a book too Dracula i think. I convinced her to read with me. So i plugged up my ipod and started reading. When she left i was halfway throgh it. By the time i call her at dinner time i was done. She went crazy it was funny.
The S.A.S.S. are total fluff, but fun to read.
I recommend these to my female students who like romance, but are a little immature because basically, all that happens is a little kissing. And I like the idea of girls going off to do study abroad programs to learn about new cultures.
I recommend these to my female students who like romance, but are a little immature because basically, all that happens is a little kissing. And I like the idea of girls going off to do study abroad programs to learn about new cultures.
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Suzanne is a graduate of Southern Illinois University, and she earned a masters degree in creative writing from Towson University in Maryland. For a number of y...more
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*cringe* it sounds like a story written in a junior cert exam!
Jan 08, 2012 04:31am