Playing W/The Boys -Lib
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Playing W/The Boys -Lib (Pretty Tough #2)
by
Liz Tigelaar (Goodreads Author)
New girl Lucy is desperate for friends. She tries out for Beachwood High soccer, but despite her amazingly accurate kick, fails to make the team. When the Coach points out that varsity football is looking for a new kicker, Lucy is skeptical. Football? Isnat that a boysa game?
But on the gridiron Lucy discovers that she feels strongain control for the first time since her m
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Published
April 28th 2008
by Topeka Bindery
(first published April 10th 2008)
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Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
Lucy's father forced her to move to Malibu right after her freshman year of high school. She's heartbroken to leave her best friend and the house where everything reminds of her mother.
The first week has been rough, but then she starts soccer tryouts. Lucy loves soccer and being a part of the team. She's devastated when her name is not on the list. However, the coach pulls her aside and tells her that the football team need...more
Lucy's father forced her to move to Malibu right after her freshman year of high school. She's heartbroken to leave her best friend and the house where everything reminds of her mother.
The first week has been rough, but then she starts soccer tryouts. Lucy loves soccer and being a part of the team. She's devastated when her name is not on the list. However, the coach pulls her aside and tells her that the football team need...more
Lucy, still recovering from the death of her mother, moves from Ohio to California with her father. Desperate to fit in and make friends, she tries out for the soccer team, but when she doesn't make it, the coach suggests that she try out for the football team as placekicker. She beats out everyone, including her new friend Benji, and is cautiously excited about it. She thinks the quarterback, Ryan, is cute, and is glad to be asked to parties by the cheerleaders. The down sides include having to...more
I loved it, cuz it shows that women can do anything men can do, and we might even be able to do it better. Scratch that, we CAN do it better.
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I enjoyed reading this book a lot. I love to play sports, and this was all about them! It's about a girl named Lucy Malone who has to move across the country to California. Lucy obviously is devastated about this. She has to leave her high school, and even worse, her very best friend in the whole world, Annie.
Lucy starts attending Beachwood High School. She soon finds out her English teacher is the head coach for the girls soccer team. Try outs are in a couple weeks and Coach Martie tells...more
Lucy starts attending Beachwood High School. She soon finds out her English teacher is the head coach for the girls soccer team. Try outs are in a couple weeks and Coach Martie tells...more
Rating C
Review Lucy is an instantly-likable narrator. Her problems are complex and you understand why and you care pretty much straight-away. The drama surrounding the boys/crushes/let's just be friends situations were much more compelling in this second book. The only hang-up for me was that the tension about Lucy's dad's prohibition of her being on the football team was too melodramatic. Everything else was pretty good (not high-brow literature, sure, but decent reading), but this ...more
Review Lucy is an instantly-likable narrator. Her problems are complex and you understand why and you care pretty much straight-away. The drama surrounding the boys/crushes/let's just be friends situations were much more compelling in this second book. The only hang-up for me was that the tension about Lucy's dad's prohibition of her being on the football team was too melodramatic. Everything else was pretty good (not high-brow literature, sure, but decent reading), but this ...more
This book is about a girl named Lucy who has to move and hates it. When she arrives, she tries out for the soccer team and doesn't make it. Everything is bringing her down, and right when she believes nothing can get any worse, the soccer coach proposes something. She wants Lucy to become the new placekicker for the school football team. The boy's football team. This story tells of the stuggles to fit in and become accepted, and it sheds light on the sexist discrimination that is still apparent ...more
This is a great book about female power and toughing it out- even when your own sex is the major factor holding you back. Lucy Malone, the heroine, doesn’t make the soccer team at her high school. So why not try out for the football team? Swimming upstream against all odds, Lucy makes the team. But will her teammates, coach and clingy-overprotective father hold her back? And is she really as tough as the boys are?
Find out in this awesome book!
Personally, this book was very ins...more
Find out in this awesome book!
Personally, this book was very ins...more
I REALLY, REALLY wanted to love this book...but I just didn't. THe first few chapters held my attention and then it just went plop. The main character, Lucy, was whiny at points and she acted so stupid at times, she was nothing like a self-motivated, strong girl figure that I like. I couldn't even stay on a page for more than a few seconds, just reading the dialougue and paragraph here and there.
I hate having to give this book a less than stellar review, because the summary really made my ...more
I hate having to give this book a less than stellar review, because the summary really made my ...more
Lucy has just moved into a new town in Cali but doesnt know anyone. Luckily she meets Charlie (girl) Brown. they both end up going to the same highschool. But when Lucy tries out for the school soccer team, she doesnt make it but ends up getting a recommendation for the school FOOTBALL team since the soccer team's coach, Martie thinks that she should use her really accurate kick for it. Lucy decides to give it a shot since her friends tell her that the cutest guys in their school are on the tea...more
Lucy Malone is the new girl at Beachwood High. She wants to play soccer, but when she gets cut from the team, she's devastated. That was her one hope to make friends. Then the soccer coach suggests that she try out for the football team, since their placekicker was injured, and her kick is great. But really? A girl on the football team? But she tries it. And she makes the team. But she has to go through a ton of crap to get accepted as part of the team. Mostly about her fight to be accepted, the...more
I started this one for book club, got a little over halfway through, and couldn't bring myself to finish it. It is really not my genre, and I didn't like how she lived a lie, even to her dad, who was only trying to help her. There was a lot of drinking, one girl drank so much she threw up. I really wouldn't waste my time on this book, I think there are a lot of better books out there that talk about soccer, and football. The concept is okay, about determination, and not giving up, but again,...more
I loved this book with a passion! this one ranks up in the top ten of my books! This book is filled with drama romance and mystery. the things i really liked about it was that it was not a book that you could guess what they were going to say on the next page. they kind of threw you off in places that were un-expected.
In this book they was nothing that i could say negative about it. except that you knew in the back of your head that a girl would never try to do this! ;)
If you like dr...more
In this book they was nothing that i could say negative about it. except that you knew in the back of your head that a girl would never try to do this! ;)
If you like dr...more
Second book in this series, though you don't have to read them in sequence. Girl's father moves them out to Malibu after her mom's death. She hopes to join the soccer team to help make friends, but after getting cut decides to try out for place kicker on the boy's football team. She faces persecution by her teammates, opposition from her dad, and loss of her friends because of her decision at a party. Everything works out in the end as she learns to stand for herself.
Good moral...more
Good moral...more
My Thoughts: In Playing With The Boys, we are introduced to Lucy. Lucy lives with her father and is forced to move to Los Angeles. She lost her mother and her father wants to get away from all the memories so he drags Lucy across the country.
Lucy has to make new friends, go to a new school, and basically learn how to be a California girl, which is harder than you would think.
On her first day of school she meets a boy named Benji. She and Benji become good friends. Then th...more
Lucy has to make new friends, go to a new school, and basically learn how to be a California girl, which is harder than you would think.
On her first day of school she meets a boy named Benji. She and Benji become good friends. Then th...more
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Okay, let's just say that this book speaks girl power. It proves that women can do anything that men can do and probably do it even better. Well scratch that.We CAN do it better!
Lucy Malone, the main character, is forced to move to Malibu to get a fresh start. Then she tries out for the soccer team at school, doesn't make, goes for the football team, and gets in. Long s...more
Review Copyright © of Keeping Up With Roxy's Books
Okay, let's just say that this book speaks girl power. It proves that women can do anything that men can do and probably do it even better. Well scratch that.We CAN do it better!
Lucy Malone, the main character, is forced to move to Malibu to get a fresh start. Then she tries out for the soccer team at school, doesn't make, goes for the football team, and gets in. Long s...more
I hate to say it but the Pretty Tough series went downhill with Playing With The Boys. Seeing as I really liked the first one, I expected to like this one too. And I did, somewhat. It just wasn't nearly as good as I had hoped.
Lucy Malone is not having a good year. First, her dad moved her across the country. Then, she didn't make the soccer team. There goes her only chance for making friends. When the soccer coach suggests Lucy try out for the boys football team Lucy doesn't t...more
Lucy Malone is not having a good year. First, her dad moved her across the country. Then, she didn't make the soccer team. There goes her only chance for making friends. When the soccer coach suggests Lucy try out for the boys football team Lucy doesn't t...more
"Playing With the Boys," is another book I have read by Liz Tigelaar. I decided to read this book after finishing "Pretty Tough" because although it is not a sequel, some of the characters and the setting is the same. The main difference is that this story is based on the life of a girl named Lucy Malone who is a newcomer to Beachwood High School from Ohio. She moved to California with her dad (her Mom passed away years earlier) and at first, struggled to fit in and make any ...more
There is a reason this book went directly to my finished list without passing through "to read" or "currently reading," and that reason is that I read the entire thing in two days. I had to go the Big Island this weekend and I was flying on Hawaiian, which has to go down in history as the most oft-delayed airline ever. Two delayed flights equals a lot of time sitting around in airports with nothing better to do than read YA fiction, so I went through this one pretty quickly...more
Lucy Malone has just moved to Malibu, California, and even though she’s got a totally awesome room in an amazing new house, things aren’t going well. All her friends are back home in Toledo, Ohio, and it doesn’t seem like she’s going to be making any new friends soon. But opportunity soon presents itself in the form of soccer tryouts. Lucy was on the varsity soccer team at her old school, so being on the team in Malibu would be a chance to show off something she’s good at. But she’s not good eno...more
I will be the first to tell you that I am definitely not a big sports person: I can watch sports every now and again, but as for playing... psh, no way. I'm very athletically challenged. And most sports I can understand... but football? It's the one sport that I pretty much don't get at all. However, after reading Playing With the Boys, I feel like I understand it a lot better than before. While reading the book, I actually understood the game of football.
That being said, Playing Wit...more
That being said, Playing Wit...more
Totally cliche and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Tigelaar just didn't make me feel for the characters. I didn't gasp or get shocked at anything in it - it was normal popular versus unpopular girl with the twist of the main character doing football instead of, say, cheerleading like the popular girl does (of COURSE she does).
I'm disappointed. I really liked Tigelaar's book Pretty TOUGH a lot.
Three stars.
I'm disappointed. I really liked Tigelaar's book Pretty TOUGH a lot.
Three stars.
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I loved every part of it. I got excited with Lucy, I got sad with her, and got pumped all the time. The only part that I did not like at all was her getting together with Benji. I guess I just didn't like him. It could have been the way his looks were described, or something else.
I liked how this book relates to highschool and how mean everyone is. and i really liked the part about how she met her "true love" but i didnt like now he had "friends" at the begining of the book and then they leave her basicly.
Very cute and fun book and definitely makes me long for football season. Lucy is one strong female character and though she's not perfect she works hard to accomplish her goals and doesn't let people stand in her way.
This was an awesome book. Its about a girl who doesn't make the soccer team and tries out for the boys football team. She teaches every girl that she can do what she wants, if we put our mind to it.
this is such a good book because it shows how girls can do anything not just things boys can do. Just push yourself and you will get there. Trust me i have done it and i did great!
I enjoyed reading this book because it dealt with a girl who was one of the best players on a boys football team. If your into sports you should definitely pick this book.
I have to say it's better then the first. When I finally got the book, I got right into it. I loved the ending and the decisions the main character made. Humorous and exciting.
This book was very funny and easy to read. Its about a girl who wanted to play soccer but didnt make the team, so her coach told her to join the football team.
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Liz Tigelaar writes both television dramas and young adult novels. Her TV credits include Dawson's Creek, American Dreams, What About Brian and Brothers & Sisters. She's a graduate of Ithaca College, originally from Guilford, Connecticut and currently living in Los Angeles, California.
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