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Better Latte Than Never
by
Catherine Clark (Goodreads Author)
There's nothing more annoying than working in a coffee shop inside a gas station--and not being able to drive. And having to deliver coffee to your bus driver.
Kamikaze Bus Driver sips his coffee, then charges back into traffic before I can even take a seat. I reach out for a seat back to hold on to, but the bus swerves and I fall onto the end of a seat that's already ta
...moreMass Market Paperbound, 287 pages
Published
May 1st 2008
by Harper Teen
(first published February 1st 2003)
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Fleming is having the worst summer of her life. She has to work at the coffee shop in the gas station to pay back her parents from the money she owes them. She has to go there early in the morning and there was always a guy that has coffee breath that comes to the store early in the morning. She crashed the old store she used to work at so she got fired but she didn't care at all. Besides the job at the coffee shop, she still has to take French class during the summer with substitutes, take...more
Mittica
marked it as to-read
Morgan Howard
9/13/2011
This book is about a teenage girl named Peggy in a small town where nothing exciting ever happens. Peggy is stuck in Kindville and just like all of her other friends they want to get out! She is just aloud to drive and she drove into the store that she works at, and is spending the whole summer working, babysitting, and paying off her parents for the damage to the car. Peggy dreams of leaving Kindville with the love of her life Steven, when she...more
Renita Frett
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I have read other books from this author and her looks usually makes for a quick enjoyable read. I didn’t particularly enjoy this book though. It got me thinking about why I didn’t like the book as much as the others. I think it’s because the plot losses focus in the book. In the beginning it seems the main focus is her job at the gas station, her French class, and guy and then by the end it revolves her relationship around her family. So I learned from this book to keep the plot focused so that...more
Rating: 4/5 stars
Level of Recommendation: Recommended
Recommend to: younger YA readers
I first read this book years ago. I couldn't even remember the story, just the name and that I liked it. So when I saw this book available on bookswap, I jumped at the chance. Honestly, it wasn't as amazing the second time around now that I'm reading it much older, but I still enjoyed it very much. I could definitely detect the obvious charm that had caused me to like this book so much in the...more
Level of Recommendation: Recommended
Recommend to: younger YA readers
I first read this book years ago. I couldn't even remember the story, just the name and that I liked it. So when I saw this book available on bookswap, I jumped at the chance. Honestly, it wasn't as amazing the second time around now that I'm reading it much older, but I still enjoyed it very much. I could definitely detect the obvious charm that had caused me to like this book so much in the...more
Fleming is stuck in the summer from hell. No driver's license, due to two car accidents. A Doberman who wants to take a chunk out of her. A crap job pouring java at the Gas N Git. An Olypmic hopeful father who wants her to trade her roller blades for ice skates like her namesake Peggy Fleming. A summer school French course whose instructor is MIA. Constant last minute babysitting for snot-nosed siblings. A pancake house waiter who seems to have forgotten she exists. Lamaze with her mother. Can F...more
UPDATE: LOG: 11/17/09:
I just finished the book this morning. Fleming's French teacher never showed up to his summer school class, and everyone was wondering where he was at. There was a gas station bandit, that robbed and ran, turns out, that's what their french teacher was up to. Fleming saved everyone and she was the one to bring him down. At the end she gets a new sibling added to the family, and her parents finally see that's she's responsible. It's all happy happy, and both of the guy...more
I just finished the book this morning. Fleming's French teacher never showed up to his summer school class, and everyone was wondering where he was at. There was a gas station bandit, that robbed and ran, turns out, that's what their french teacher was up to. Fleming saved everyone and she was the one to bring him down. At the end she gets a new sibling added to the family, and her parents finally see that's she's responsible. It's all happy happy, and both of the guy...more
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Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
In this reprint of Catherine Clark's FROZEN RODEO, Fleming is having the worst summer. She's stuck working at a coffee shop in a gas station to pay her parents back for crashing their station wagon. She's taking a French class where the professor is always absent. Her best friend is gone for the summer and the boy she likes is always making out with another girl.
That doesn't even begin to describe her troubles at home - alw...more
In this reprint of Catherine Clark's FROZEN RODEO, Fleming is having the worst summer. She's stuck working at a coffee shop in a gas station to pay her parents back for crashing their station wagon. She's taking a French class where the professor is always absent. Her best friend is gone for the summer and the boy she likes is always making out with another girl.
That doesn't even begin to describe her troubles at home - alw...more
Hpitcher
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wow. so usually i kind of like catherine clark books but this one was extremly dissapointing. the only reason i finished it was to see if it could possiby get better but it didn't. did fleming end up with denny in the end or did charlotte? seriously the whole plot for the book kind of sucked!
I liked it but not nearly as much as Catherine Clark's other books (So Inn Love, Picture Perfect). Some parts weren't very interesting to me, but it was good enough to keep me reading (: Better Latte Than Never was also able to make me laugh out loud and smile, which I loved!
So basically this book is about Peggy, a clumsy driver who crashes her way to earning money for her parents and taking French classes from a teacher who never shows up and always has substitutes who usually never know French.
I picked up this book because it seemed like that kind of story that might be interesting. Alternative characters, a decent plot. I didn't hate it, but the ending could have been a little bit better. It just kind of cut off. The whole middle-age crisis that her f...more
I picked up this book because it seemed like that kind of story that might be interesting. Alternative characters, a decent plot. I didn't hate it, but the ending could have been a little bit better. It just kind of cut off. The whole middle-age crisis that her f...more
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It didn't start out too good. Peggy came off as annoying from the start. I kept on reading and then I came to like her. The ending was way better than I expected it to be. It's a good light read.
A cute book, while I was confused a bit at some points. I enjoyed the parental conflict, it was realistic and I could really relate to being the third parent. The ending was very cute. I loved the book overall.
Cute story - about a teen girl in a small town navigating her way through her summer job, summer french class, an old crush, a new friend, a new guy, a crazy bus driver, armed robbery, and child birth classes???
Clean (except for someone streaking):). No cussing, no sex, no drugs. Thank you Catherine.
There is something to be said about the real subplot of this story - being able to adjust your expectations about people, about yourself. Deciding to change your mind, yo...more
Clean (except for someone streaking):). No cussing, no sex, no drugs. Thank you Catherine.
There is something to be said about the real subplot of this story - being able to adjust your expectations about people, about yourself. Deciding to change your mind, yo...more
this was good. i learned you dont always need a guy or boyfriend...well i already knew that but that was in there
Sharon
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I'm basically still on the second chapter. I think it is quite interesting...
Strongly dislike this book. It was pretty much was a waste of my time
Hated It
well it wasn't that bad but not her best
well it wasn't that bad but not her best
I liked it, but it wasn't great or anything.
should i continue???
Romance. It was okay.
Peggy Fleming Farrell's summer is the pits. She has to work making coffee at the Gas N Git to pay her parents back for wrecking the car. Her skating father is trying to stage a comeback, her pregnant mother wants her to be the Lamaze coach, and the boy she likes is dating someone else. Then she meets Charlotte in French class, and life might not be so bad. Between hijacked golf carts, plans to streak in the Rodeo Days parade, and a robber on the loose, summer may yet have some excitement.
i didnt like it. It wasnt the kind of the book that you cant put it down.
In addition to taking Lamaze classes with her expectant mother while her father tries to regain a foot in the professional skating world, Peggy Fleming Farrell must also suffer the horror of bad French teachers and a boring job, in an amusing tale about a young girl trying to make sense of her life.
I decided I needed to read a YA book for girls, especially with no vampires. I enjoyed this. There were things I found realistic and things I found kind of silly. The silliness might actually have made it more realistic- teenagers are kind of silly. Anyway, fun read.
I remember this being one the only books I read as a tween that I actually enjoyed. Not sure if it would still hold up now though...
i love this book!!! read it at the beach so it is all crinkly cuz the pages got wet at the beach!!! it also has some sad in it!!!
It was Boring for a few chapters, but after that it was laugh-out-loud funny! Read it if you like realistic fiction:)
Not the best book I have ever read, but certainly not the worst.
Danielle
marked it as to-read
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