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  <title><![CDATA[Absolutely Maybe]]></title>
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  <default_description>Meet Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut,  named for two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara. Chessy teaches the students in her charm school her Seven Select Rules for Young Ladies, but she won't tell Maybe who her real father is -- or protect her from her latest scuzzball boyfriend. So Maybe hitches a ride to California with her friends Hollywood and Thammasat Tantipinichwong Schneider (aka Ted) -- and what she finds there is funny, sad, true, and inspiring . . . vintage Lisa Yee. &lt;p&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lisa Yee takes a departure from her usual middle grade fare to offer a more mature look at adolescence in Absolutely Maybe.  15 year old Maybe (short for Maybelline) lives in Kissimmee, FL with her mother, Chessy.  Chessy is a former beauty queen who now runs a charm school for aspiring pageant winn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47592339">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I read this great blog post about the rewrites Lisa Yee did to this book before it was published: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://chavelaque.blogspot.com/2009/02/behind-book-absolutely-maybe-by-lisa.html" title="http://chavelaque.blogspot.com/2009/02/behind-book-absolutely-maybe-by-lisa.html">http://chavelaque.blogspot.com/2009/02/b...</a><br/><br/>It actually reminded me a lot of the rewrites I did to my own book, so I was all &quot;HURRAH NOW I WILL READ HER FINISHED PRODUCT AND REJOICE FO...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50180344">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty disappointing, because I like Yee's middle grade novels so much. In a lot of ways this book reads very similar to them, except that the protagonist is older and has more serious problems. And yet, it doesn't feel like, as a character, she is that much more evolved or mature - she certainly di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46341519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mabelline had a father once, she knows that much. Her mother never explained anything except when she was under the influence, even then it was only one or two things. Maybe’s mother, Chessy, had a ‘fling’ with a talent searcher years back and now she lives with Maybe in the apartment above he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55784341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka &quot;Readingjunky&quot; for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>ABSOLUTELY MAYBE by Lisa Yee is due out in February 2009. It is her first YA/teen novel - and readers will not want to miss it. <br/><br/>The main character is Maybelline, &quot;Maybe&quot; to her friends. She is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41265421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut (Maybe, for short) runs away from home after her mother’s fiancée makes a pass at her.  Chessy, Maybe’s mother, is an alcoholic.  She runs a charm school that trains girls to win beauty pageants, and she drives Maybe crazy.  When Maybe decides she’s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62066597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lisa Yee's first young adult novel begins in Florida, where Maybe - short for Maybelline Mary Anne Mary Katherine Chestnut (she's named for her mother's favorite mascara and two beauty queens) - has finally had it. She's sick of her mom, who dotes on her charm school students. She's sick of her mom'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69043821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely Maybe is such a great read that will have you entertained until you have reached the last page..when you get there you'll be sad because it's over like this --&gt; :(<br/>Maybelline, named after her mother's favorite mascara, is a teenager who runs away from home after an incident happen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45775400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe is Maybelline Chestnut. She lives with her mother, Chessy, and Chessy's endless string of husbands, but she has never lived with her father. Chessy won't tell who Maybe's father is. When Chessy's latest fiance, Jake, assaults Maybe one night when Chessy is passed out drunk, Chessy interrupts a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62211840">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe (short for Maybelline) her mother's favorite mascara is a complicated character. She dresses in large over-sized clothes, dyes her hair with kool-aid and enjoys wearing lots of black eye-liner. Her mother is a former pageant queen and now runs a beauty and charm school. She has also been marri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72773409">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this authors way of approaching a tough subject and drawing the reader in. Maybelline, mary katherine mary ann chestnut a.k.a Maybe thinks that if she can just find her biological father her life will be perfect. She heads to California with her two guy friends and soon finds out that although...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50252591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybelline &quot;Maybe&quot; Chestnut, named after her beauty queen mother's favorite mascara, is a sixteen year old goth like opposite to her mother's charm school business.  It's just the two of them (after six marriages for Chessy) and showing up with hubby to be #7 and his wandering eye for youn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47530176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to love this but in the end thought it was just okay.  I felt like it was really surface-level writing and I kept waiting and waiting for the characters to become more real and better developed but they just sort of remained unfamiliar to me.  I didn't really like Maybe. She was obnoxious i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46422937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybelline, Maybe for short, is named after her mother's favorite mascara.  Her mother is a former beauty queen and current operator of a charm school.  Naturally, Maybe is in complete rebellion against everything her mother stands for.  When her mother's soon-to-be-husband-number-six makes a pass a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53960055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good read, didn't enjoy it as much as Millicent Min by Yee, but it was still enjoyable.  Maybe (full name Maybelline) is in search of her father, especially after her serial bride of a mother is about to go down the aisle again and she is put in a situation where she is in danger (don't w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48941100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To truly enjoy Lisa Yee's <em>Absolutely Maybe</em>, you will need to suspend your disbelief in a major way. Driving from Florida to California in a beat-up old Toyota that doesn't break down? OK. Driving cross-country with no place to stay or means of support when you get there? No problem. Snagging a cushy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56732524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Quote from WORD for Teens:</em><br/><br/>The similarities between it and Something, Maybe were astounding, though. They're titles are similar. Both have to do with taking a road trip involving something with fathers. Both Maybe and Hannah have two males in their life, at least one of which they are rom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64087826">more...</a>]]></body>
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