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    <body><![CDATA[Published this year, Ms. Blau’s young-adult novel would not be recommended by me to any middle school nor early high school student.  Part memoir, part fiction, the story enfolds through the sensitive eyes of 14-year old Jamie during the bicentennial summer of 1976 in Santa Barbara, California.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39764013">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was painful because of its reality.  Blau does an amazing job capturing the hopelessness and hopefulness of 14 year old girls.  Jamie is a perfect follower - she knows all of the bad things that can happen in any situation, yet is willing to assume someone else in the group must know what'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68666851">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Written by the daughter of the wonderful Sheridan Blau, <u>The Summer of Naked Swim Parties</u> is the kind of book I would have loved when I was 13 or 14.  At times I really enjoyed it, and at other times it really made me cringe.  The stupidity of teenagehood always makes me feel vaguely ill (and sometim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60289648">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. I expected something frothy and light, but it was surprisingly emotional and touching. It was a fun coming-of-age novel that wasn't depressing, but believably grounded. The author didn't overly romanticize youth but acknowledged the ups and downs. She dealt with overcoming ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57100860">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was expecting an adult chick lit book from the cover. And, you know it's good judging by the title! Jamie is a mature 14-year-old being raised by two hippie parents. THEY are the ones holding the naked swim parties! Jamie is the responsible one. But she's growing. The local hot surfer dude likes h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73026027">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[FANNNNNNTASTIC! <br/><br/>Summer of Naked Swim Parties is set in the 70's and revolves around a 14 year old girl and her eccentric parents who do just what the title says: Have naked swim parties. I personally want to vomit when I think of my parents being naked however, it's common in the book (s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28538050">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave the book 4 stars mostly because I couldn't put it down, finished within 24 hours of starting it. It's entertaining and interesting, I love the dead-on descriptions of Jamie's thoughts. Other than being a typical &quot;coming-of-age&quot; book, there's not too much of a plot and I didn't appre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41096543">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this last summer on a whim.  Working at Barnes &amp; Noble, I saw a lot of books in passing, but something about this cover made me smile.  I didn't read it until sometime around Thanksgiving (I only know this because I had it with me in the car while my family drove to NYC).<br/><br/>This wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50227447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book clichéd – a slice of life of California in the seventies. Jamie is the 14 years sexually active teenage daughter of free living and loving Betty and Allen.  I think one of the messages of the book is that even though Betty and Allen seemed to have no real rules for themselves or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68723950">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is true that Blau captures teenage emotions, yet I find some holes in the believability of Jamie's character. Her life seems too &quot;perfect&quot; at first, with the cute surfer boyfriend, the two best friends, etc. Her problems with Flip and alienation from Renee, her sister, are not enough to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48968736">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Being 14 sucked! Totally sucked! This book brought me back to all those feelings of alienation, anger, the awkward sexuality, the seeming pointlessness of it all. Being so desperate for the attention of boys that I would have been better off spitting on. What a cruel and shallow bunch we all were. R...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48719092">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed by this one. The reviews said &quot;You'll laugh and cry out loud in public.&quot; I did neither! I don't remember being sad at all or laughing much at all! This was a story of a 14 year old girl's  summer, kind of coming of age tale, set in the 70s. Most of the things they did, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55061738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book because I love coming of age stuff and the cover said you would laugh out loud in public.  Ummm--I laughed exactly one time.  It lasted almost 10 minutes, but it was still only one time.  Its a bit graphic, and I just couldn't relate to teen years with this much explicitness.  I don'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47201626">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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