Finding love is simple with the One True Love Plan.
If only life were as easy as your sisters. Abbys heard that one before. And its true S... read full description
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Jun 05, 2008
Nancy
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Fifteen-year-old Abby may well have the most embarrassing family ever. Her mother, after having married and divorced her father twice, is now recently married to a too-young guitar-playing hunk who she inherited after he moved on from daughters Kait and then Shelby. Shelby, at twenty-one has a three year old, and is living at home with her. Kait (also living at home) is pregnant, either by the guitar player, or possibly the boy next door. The guitar player is being unfaithful at home (with Shelb
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Jan 14, 2009
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My friend, who is studying "white trash," borrowed this book from the library. I don't think he realized that it was a teen romance novel. He said I might like it, so I decided to read it. After all, it fits into my Librarians Read Challenge genre of kids and young adult fiction.
It's a pretty typical, predictable teen romance. Girl meets boy (next door). There is an obstacle to their love. (Girl thinks boy may be the father of her older sister's baby). Obstacle is overcome More...
It's a pretty typical, predictable teen romance. Girl meets boy (next door). There is an obstacle to their love. (Girl thinks boy may be the father of her older sister's baby). Obstacle is overcome More...
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Jun 16, 2011
Jennifer
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After reading Hate List, I needed a little fun in my literary life. Fancy White Trash was just the ticket!
Abby is a not-so-normal girl from a not-so-normal family, growing up in a not-so-normal home. But then again, what is normal? If normal is a sandwich, this girl's is a burnt grilled cheese! Even though life has thrown her multiple curve balls (two sisters, both experienced/experiencing teenage pregnancy; A mom who can't seem to accept that she's not a hot, young thing anym More...
Abby is a not-so-normal girl from a not-so-normal family, growing up in a not-so-normal home. But then again, what is normal? If normal is a sandwich, this girl's is a burnt grilled cheese! Even though life has thrown her multiple curve balls (two sisters, both experienced/experiencing teenage pregnancy; A mom who can't seem to accept that she's not a hot, young thing anym More...
Dec 02, 2010
Jacinda
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Fancy White Trash is a fun and cute story about Abby who thinks the way to find love is through her One True Love Plan.
I loved this book! It made me laugh, a lot! I grew up in somewhat of a small town myself, it only has 3 stoplights and I graduated with 93 people(I think that’s the right figure). The nickname of the town ended in -tuckey, I still laugh at that today. Because of this, many of this stuff reminds me of how I grew up and your typical “trailer park” situations. Can you i More...
I loved this book! It made me laugh, a lot! I grew up in somewhat of a small town myself, it only has 3 stoplights and I graduated with 93 people(I think that’s the right figure). The nickname of the town ended in -tuckey, I still laugh at that today. Because of this, many of this stuff reminds me of how I grew up and your typical “trailer park” situations. Can you i More...
Apr 15, 2010
Lnlisa
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Abby is the only sensible person in her family.
Her mother's current husband, the Guitar Guy, first dated her middle sister, but then dumped the middle sister for the oldest sister. The middle sister realized she was pregnant with his child, so he went off to think for a few weeks, came back to do the right thing, but then met her mother, who he actually married. You following? So now her mother is pregnant by the same loser as her sister.
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Her mother's current husband, the Guitar Guy, first dated her middle sister, but then dumped the middle sister for the oldest sister. The middle sister realized she was pregnant with his child, so he went off to think for a few weeks, came back to do the right thing, but then met her mother, who he actually married. You following? So now her mother is pregnant by the same loser as her sister.
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Apr 19, 2009
Heather
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Imagine living in a family where your eighteen year old sister is pregnant with your stepfather's baby (and, incidentally, so is your mom.) And your 21-year-old sister has also had an affair with the man. Yikes! Welcome to Abby's home. It is no wonder that Abby has made herself some serious rules about guys so that she doesn't turn out like her mom and sisters. Add to this the fact that she has feelings for the guy next door and then finds out he once had a brief fling with her sister. Full-time
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Jul 28, 2009
Amelia
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Fancy White Trash was just as Soap Operatic as the cover promised it would be. Poor Abby Savage is thrown into the middle of squabble and squabble, with a little drama thrown in between. Abby's mother is newly pregnant and married to the potential father of her other daughter's child. Abby's OTHER sister uses her as a live in babysitter. Her only tie to sanity is her (maybe/maybe not gay) best friend, Cody who lives next door. She might be in love with his brother, another potential possible fat
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May 24, 2011
Ashleigh
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Ashleigh gave 4 Stars
Fancy White Trash
by Marjetta Geerling
read in May, 2011
Fancy White Trash was a very good book. If you are looking for something drama filled you should definitely read it. Not only does Abby Savage have an extremely drama filled life, but all of it remains within her family. Living life hoping to grow up nothing like your relatives is a little different and out of the ordinary after growing up in the Savage family; nothing short of what Abby want More...
Fancy White Trash
by Marjetta Geerling
read in May, 2011
Fancy White Trash was a very good book. If you are looking for something drama filled you should definitely read it. Not only does Abby Savage have an extremely drama filled life, but all of it remains within her family. Living life hoping to grow up nothing like your relatives is a little different and out of the ordinary after growing up in the Savage family; nothing short of what Abby want More...
Apr 25, 2010
Erica
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Even though my jaw dropped in awe before I finished the first chapter as Abby revealed the drama of her family, I found Abby to be quite relatable. When I was in high school, I had a clear picture in my head of what true love was, or rather what it was not. And, like Abby, this wasn’t something I would disregard just because some cute Rule-breaking guy came along and knew the right words to say. But here’s the thing about this book: it’s not just about Abby and her quest for her One True Love
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Oct 28, 2011
Nancy
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I debated whether to give this 2 or 3 stars. I decided on 3 because it was a fun read. The writing is enjoyable and the characters are crazy but fun and you can't help but root for Abby, a 15 year old who just wants to find true love and then get the heck away from her nutty family. I also thought the storyline of Cody, her gay (although he doesn't know it yet) best friend was handled well. However, my main guide in reviewing a book like this is whether I would recommend it to my teenage dau
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Mar 14, 2009
Michelle
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Abby Savage is obsessed with finding her One True Love. Thus, she developed five rules based on the many soap operas she has seen and her sisters' failed relationships. Fancy White Trash chronicles Abby and her best friend Cody as they search for love in a crazy world.
Teens (mostly girls) will instantly be attracted to the drama and romance in this book. Just like her favorite soap operas, Abby's life is full of love triangles and bizzare situations. Her sisters have each had bab More...
Teens (mostly girls) will instantly be attracted to the drama and romance in this book. Just like her favorite soap operas, Abby's life is full of love triangles and bizzare situations. Her sisters have each had bab More...
Aug 07, 2009
Jennifer
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This one was good. A fast, beach read kind of book. I was derailed a bit, however, when I got near the end and found a piece of inaccurate scientific info. It said that a child of parents with blood types AB and A would be most likely to be a B, but that's just false. Mom could be either AA or AO, so that gives us 8 options, with only one of them being B (BO). So that's a 12.5% chance. 50% chance of A, 37.5% chance of AB. In any case, I shouldn't have let this keep me from ultimately enjo
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Jan 11, 2012
Tiffany
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Fancy White trash is about this "Average teenager", Abby Savage, who has this One True Love Plan, she tries to live by. Seeing the way her family has grown up she bases her 'Love Rules' on them, so she can be different than the other fancy white trash savage girls, her sisters and mom. When her fist Love, and her best friend brother, Jackson, comes home on his college break. He tries to ruin her One True Love Plan, by making her want to have him back and trying to get her to realize th
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Aug 16, 2011
Katina
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This one was just okay. I liked parts of it, but also thought it was boring at times and incredibly predictable. I don't think YA books need to be that predictable. I also was a little grossed out by Abby's family. It was a little too back-woods white trash for me to be believable. What kind of mother would sleep with her daughter's boyfriend...and what kind of guy would impregnate one girl, then sleep with her sister, and then marry her mother and impregnate her as well? It was a little t
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May 28, 2009
Allie
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When I first started reading this book, I simply didn't find the premise believable. Maybe I haven't watched enough Jerry Springer, but I just could not accept that a mom would take up with a guy who had dated, dumped and probably impregnated her own teen daughter. Oddly, the next day I had lunch with a friend who, without my mentioning this book, started talking about a family she personally knows in which the exact same scenario had happened. Sad - but it made it a lot easier for me to finish
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Feb 07, 2012
Fancy White Trash
By: Marjetta Geerling
Published: June 2008
Genre: young adult fiction
Well for my 2nd quarter book report I read the book Fancy white trash by Marjetta Geerling. This book had a lot of drama. Like this book is about a family of 3 sisters, Shelby, and Kait, and Abby. But this isn’t just a normal family; these 3 girls are a daughter of an irresponsible mother who has divorced her husband to be with both Shelby and Kait’s ex, Steve. Well Shelby h More...
By: Marjetta Geerling
Published: June 2008
Genre: young adult fiction
Well for my 2nd quarter book report I read the book Fancy white trash by Marjetta Geerling. This book had a lot of drama. Like this book is about a family of 3 sisters, Shelby, and Kait, and Abby. But this isn’t just a normal family; these 3 girls are a daughter of an irresponsible mother who has divorced her husband to be with both Shelby and Kait’s ex, Steve. Well Shelby h More...
Jan 02, 2010
Abby
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Abby Savage knows her family is white trash. Let's see... her oldest sister is 21 and has a kid whose father she was briefly married to before they got divorced and he fled the scene. Her other older sister is currently pregnant with the child of her guitar teacher. And her mom just got married to said guitar teacher and is now also expecting a child of his. Abby is determined NOT to repeat their mistakes. So she creates rules for finding her One True Love. These rules will keep her from falling
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Oct 13, 2008
Frezanda
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This books is supposed to be funny and it is. I just felt sad imagining anyone has a family like that. To be trapped in your own family's real life soap opera. I hate talk show especially those kind of like Jerry Springer and all that. To promote dysfunctional people and make it a show for public enjoyment...It's so irresponsible and quite an idiocy. In this book the mother and the two elder sisters were actually involved with the same guy, The Guitar guy. This was a certainly very very moronic
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Sep 01, 2008
Marya
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Show us your tits! That's the expectation readers have when the narrator keeps comparing her family to the guests on Jerry Springer. And really, what can be better than a snarky 15 year old commenting on such a family? Alas, this isn't a Jerry Springer family because:
1. Their home isn't a trailer
2. People drink, but aren't constantly drunk, strung out, or in some other kind of artificially induced state of being.
3. Nothing's on the lawn but cactus (it takes place in B More...
1. Their home isn't a trailer
2. People drink, but aren't constantly drunk, strung out, or in some other kind of artificially induced state of being.
3. Nothing's on the lawn but cactus (it takes place in B More...
Aug 08, 2008
Jennifer
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Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen for TeensReadToo.com
Sisters getting pregnant, mom remarrying three times, car accidents, quick amnesiac episodes -- these all sound like another episode of a soap opera. Unfortunately, for Abby Savage, that's actually her life, and she knows that it resembles a soap because that is all she watches.
With her family's history of dating and getting pregnant and then getting heartbroken, Abby is ready to find the perf More...
Sisters getting pregnant, mom remarrying three times, car accidents, quick amnesiac episodes -- these all sound like another episode of a soap opera. Unfortunately, for Abby Savage, that's actually her life, and she knows that it resembles a soap because that is all she watches.
With her family's history of dating and getting pregnant and then getting heartbroken, Abby is ready to find the perf More...
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Jan 28, 2009
Steph
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This book in a word: Incredible. And not in a good way.
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The base of the spotlighted family is the mother, Mona (an erratic and irresponsible parental figure), and three sisters, Shelby (21), Kait (18), and Abby (15). Shelby has a three-year-old kid, Hannah, and Kait is pregnant for a portion of the book and then gives birth to premature baby named Stephanie. Abby’s father and Mona have been married twice—they’re divorced at the beginning of the novel. Mona is also More...
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The base of the spotlighted family is the mother, Mona (an erratic and irresponsible parental figure), and three sisters, Shelby (21), Kait (18), and Abby (15). Shelby has a three-year-old kid, Hannah, and Kait is pregnant for a portion of the book and then gives birth to premature baby named Stephanie. Abby’s father and Mona have been married twice—they’re divorced at the beginning of the novel. Mona is also More...
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Nov 03, 2009
Lindsay
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Abby Savage is determined to lead a perfectly “normal” life, only her life resembles a soap opera much to her dismay. While she is visiting next door venting her frustrations to her best friend Cody, a fight breaks out in the front yard. He is unable to tear his gaze from the commotion outside and to Abby explains the reason why “Jerry Springer has been on the air for so long”. The Savage girls in all their beauty are also known for being very trashy. Her mother is married to a younger man w
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Mar 26, 2009
This 2009 ALA Best book for Young Adults was a great read. Every teenager is embarressed of his/her families, but they don't know embarresment until they see Abby's family. They are straight out of an episode of Jerry Springer. This hilarious book would appeal to a broad range of teens, especially girls that have family issues. I would promote this book in a family unit. This book is funny yet through all her embarressment you can see she really loves her family.
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Jan 29, 2010
Sarah
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Sometimes there really are reasons to listen to your mother. A few months ago, my mom (a h.s. librarian in central Illinois) told me to read this young adult novel. So, when I saw it in May while completing inventory, I added it to my "to read" collection. Heehee. I'm glad I did. Poor, poor Abby lives in a family that most people would call white trash. I, um, saw a lot of similarities between her life and some of the people around me. I'm not naming names. But Abby's step-dad is the f
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Jun 06, 2009
Mari Anne
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A YA novel by an author I met at the conference in Jan. This was a very well written story with great visualization and great main characters. The plot moved quickly and kept pulling the reader in as well as along. I am always slightly shocked at some of the subject matter in these YA novels but I guess that's just a symptom of getting older and fuddy duddier! The only disappointment was the ending which felt trite. I really enjoyed it though.
Jun 03, 2009
Tessa
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It was hard for me to ignore the fact that throughout the book an 18 year old kept hitting on a 15 year old, and she kept rejecting him, and he would keep hitting on her. I am fully aware that this is not a strange situation, and that Abby's character was written more maturely than a lot of real life 15 year olds, and, ok, she was almost 16. Ultimately, it didn't stop me from enjoying the read, but every time it was mentioned I felt a little bit icky.
Feb 12, 2011
Shalin
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When I first started reading the story, I found the characters and settings messy. But as I read more, I've come to like the book. I like Abby, Cody and Jackson. Like Abby, I wouldn't want to live in such a crazy family. But I would want to have a best friend like Cody and a boyfriend like Jackson, both living just next door since the start of forever.
I think it's nice if there's a sequel to this. More about Abby and Jackson perhaps?
I think it's nice if there's a sequel to this. More about Abby and Jackson perhaps?
Feb 21, 2009
Stephanie
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This was nothing more than your fluffy YA chick-lit novel. Girl falls in love with next door neighbor, has gay guy friend, has horrible family problems...and all is resolved in the end. Blah blah blah...
There was nothing remotely original in this entire novel, although the mother falling in love and getting knocked up by her Daughter #1's ex who just so happened to knock up Daughter #1 as well was different.
Don't waste your time.
There was nothing remotely original in this entire novel, although the mother falling in love and getting knocked up by her Daughter #1's ex who just so happened to knock up Daughter #1 as well was different.
Don't waste your time.
Sep 30, 2011
Ariana
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I thought this book was very unique! The storyline is hilarious, but it could sometimes get confusing. I would definatly recommend the book to other teenage girls.It gave a interesting look at a young girls view on love, and how her mother's and sister's relationships effected her opinion. All in all it was a fun and easy book to read!
May 16, 2011
Yessenia
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This book I thought was pretty good. I like how it was portrayed and I absolutely liked Jackson. :D He was like the stereotypical bad boy. haha though he is good boy too. I felt this book really hit what some teenage people go through. It was definitely a good read.
