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Jul 30, 2010
Debut author, J.A. Yang, tells the story of Chloe - a sixteen year-old adopted child of Hollywood royalty. Her father is a rock star, her mom is a movie star. She is a product of her environment, which can be superficial when she talks about jewelry and fashion, but thankfully Chloe has much more depth than expected of anyone in her position. When she begins searching for her birth parents, the book really takes a life of its own and Chloe becomes a girl you root for. Deep down to the core, she'
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Feb 13, 2010
When Chloe was a baby, she was adopted by a Hollywood power couple - her mom is a famous actress and her father is a rockstar. Now she's 16, and she just found out that her parents are getting a divorce - worse, she found out because there was a picture of her father on the front of a tabloid and he was kissing another woman. Now, everywhere she goes people look at her with pity. Everyone knows her families business and she is tired of being the center of attention.
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Feb 16, 2010
Honestly, what really drew me to the book was the cover. Although I thought the summary that was provided on the back of the book was somewhat inaccurate. I thought the book was going to mostly be about Chloe undercover, but Chloe didn't undergo her transformation until the late second half of the book. Despite the misconception, I thought it was an entertaining light read. I love reading books about Hollywood and Chloe was a great main character, she was nice, sweet, and not snotty at all. Unli
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Jun 20, 2009
Ok, I admit it, I read the headlines on the magazines when I'm standing in line and I watch E! News. This book was a cute light read that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys a look into Hollywood, so if you know the names of celebrities and their children, you'll probably enjoy this book.
Chloe is relatable and even though she has a famous, expensive and fashionable lifestyle, she's nice and sweet and wasn't rich snotty girl, which I liked. I got annoyed that Chloe didn't see More...
Chloe is relatable and even though she has a famous, expensive and fashionable lifestyle, she's nice and sweet and wasn't rich snotty girl, which I liked. I got annoyed that Chloe didn't see More...
May 14, 2009
The Good: It was way better than I expected it to be. The story line has been used a lot before, but it had it's own quirky twist to it. There are some cliches in here and it's sometimes corny... but somehow, J.A. Yang pulls it off!
The characters are awesome. Regardless if they're main or supporting, I could differentiate between all of them and I loved (except a few who I just wanted to stab with a pencil) all oth them! And Chloe... unlike all the other normal person during during t More...
The characters are awesome. Regardless if they're main or supporting, I could differentiate between all of them and I loved (except a few who I just wanted to stab with a pencil) all oth them! And Chloe... unlike all the other normal person during during t More...
Feb 17, 2010
What pops into your mind when you hear the word CELEBRITY?
Fame
Cameras
Money
Lights
Red carpet
Nosy people
Media
Paparazzi
Action
Elaborated vacations
Expensive clothes
Spoiled brats
Famous
Hollywood
Spectacular
Anything up normal
How would it feel to walk around public places just to hear, “Oh my god, it IS you.”? The book “Exclusively Chloe by J.A. Yang, gives you the insid More...
Fame
Cameras
Money
Lights
Red carpet
Nosy people
Media
Paparazzi
Action
Elaborated vacations
Expensive clothes
Spoiled brats
Famous
Hollywood
Spectacular
Anything up normal
How would it feel to walk around public places just to hear, “Oh my god, it IS you.”? The book “Exclusively Chloe by J.A. Yang, gives you the insid More...
May 19, 2009
EXCLUSIVELY CHLOE depicts the harsh realities of Hollywood politics without being too trashy. Chloe-Grace is a relatable and likable protagonist, a young girl caught in between the glitz of celebrity life and a desire to know what it feels like to be normal. If you’ve ever wondered what Brad and Angelina’s lot might feel like as teenagers, there is an excellent possibility—one can hope!—that they will turn out like Chloe-Grace: a down-to-earth girl who doesn’t take her glamorous situation for gr
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May 23, 2009
I really really liked Exclusively Chloe. At first glance it might appear to be all glitz and glamor, the Hollywood Lifestyle and while that's part of it there is so much more going on than the blurb leads you to believe. For as much as Hollywood and fame don't equal a realistic life for 99% of the population, I found this story to be really believable and understandable. When is comes down to it, it's about a girl trying to find her place in the world with people that get her and like her for he
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Nov 30, 2009
Just when I thought there was nothing more to offer in the whole asian adoptee storyline, out comes J.A. Yang, who combines this with Celebrity life story, and the combination was pure gold. Asian Adoptee story with minimal angst. Wee~ Also, love Luther and the whole undercover at "normal" school to find long lost relative subplot. I thought Chloe-Grace's friends could have been better fleshed out though. For the whole novel, I felt like they never really went beyond the stock type per
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Dec 16, 2009
Although the writing and the story in the book was appealing I thought it was pretty superficial and too cutesy and sugar-coated. Maybe this was the point but everything in Chloe's life ended up perfectly tied up with a pretty pink (probably Gucci) ribbon. The whole book is set in the celebrity/Hollywood tabloid world complete with red carpet references throughout, which will be insignificant in 5 or 10 years. The core of the story is good - Chloe just wants to find out where she came from an
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Aug 13, 2009
Chloe-Grace is the adopted 16 year old daughter of major celebrities and thus a celebrity herself. When her parents announce their intention to divorce and the glare of fame becomes too much for her, Chloe decides to go undercover at a regular high school and try out an anonymous life.
There are so many books out there about normal teens finding themselves suddenly famous (fantasy wish fulfillment for many in our culture today), but this is one for the Suris and Maddoxs of the world w More...
There are so many books out there about normal teens finding themselves suddenly famous (fantasy wish fulfillment for many in our culture today), but this is one for the Suris and Maddoxs of the world w More...
Apr 08, 2010
This book Exclusively Chloe by J.A. Yang is about a girl named Chole who was adopted by famous parent living in Hollywood. Now Chole is 16 years old. She also find out that her parents are getting a divorce but what makes it even worse she found out in magazine. Every where she goes she is the center of attention. she hate the fact that everyone knows about her personal life.
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I can make a Text-to-world. I can make this connection because every day a lot of famous are slammed with More...
Jun 07, 2011
Let me start by saying this book was not necessarily my type of reading, but it IS a book that my junior-high-aged, Sweet-Valley-High-devouring younger self would have enjoyed: it's got a poor little rich girl with a heart of gold, plenty of Hollywood glitz to make you feel like you've got a window onto the rich and fabulous, and a plot packed with friend hijinks, family drama and even romance. And it has a multicultural angle to boot. Full review on Finding Wonderland: http://writingya.blogspot.com/2011/05/mo...
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Mar 29, 2010
This book is about a celebrity named Chloe-Grace. She is consider as the only adopted celebrity kid. She tries to get out of the humiliation she gets from school about her parent's divorce. Her bestfriend Rachelle loves attention. She tends to get through everything by partying, using her "Chloe-Grace identity." to get in to clubs. After seeing her father and his girlfriend, and going through all that misunderstanding from her mother. Chloe-Grace decides to go "undercover" to
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Jan 14, 2010
Reviewed by Sarah Bean the Green Bean Teen Queen for TeensReadToo.com
Chloe-Grace is a celebrity just for being her. She's the first celebrity-adopted kid in Hollywood and everyone has watched her every move all her life. Now that Chloe's sixteen, she wonders what it would be like to be "normal" and be a regular kid at a regular school. So she decides to get a "make-under" and go undercover at a new school. But is Chloe ready for the real world?
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Chloe-Grace is a celebrity just for being her. She's the first celebrity-adopted kid in Hollywood and everyone has watched her every move all her life. Now that Chloe's sixteen, she wonders what it would be like to be "normal" and be a regular kid at a regular school. So she decides to get a "make-under" and go undercover at a new school. But is Chloe ready for the real world?
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Feb 19, 2011
Contrary to the back of the book, Chloe does not decide to undergo a makeunder until halfway through the book. It wasn't boring per se, but there was a lot of set up occurring and after awhile I just wanted her to leave her wealthy school and annoying best friend, Rachelle and get on with switching high schools. What's worse is that there are maybe 3-4 chapters dealing with Chloe's new life and then we hurtle towards the ending. All of a sudden, all this drama erupts and then everything is solve
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Nov 04, 2009
Chloe is the "original" celebrity-adopted baby from China, now 16 and trying to navigate around her high school, nicknamed "Celebrity High" for the number of famous offspring who attend it. When her actress mom and rock star dad decide to divorce, life gets extremely stressful for Chloe, since she can't live this out in private. Eventually, she decides to have a "makeunder" and enroll at a regular high school in a suburb of LA to get away from all the Hollywood dr
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Jul 20, 2010
*3.5*
This has been in my TBR pile for ages now and I'm not really sure why, because as it turns out, Exclusively Chloe is a fun, savvy, and start studded coming of age tale, one that was highly enjoyable.
Exclusively Chloe opens up just as Chloe is learning about her parent's divorce from a celeb magazine. It's quite the understatement to say that she's shocked, because all her life she's felt that her parents were truly going to be celebs that would stick it out for the More...
This has been in my TBR pile for ages now and I'm not really sure why, because as it turns out, Exclusively Chloe is a fun, savvy, and start studded coming of age tale, one that was highly enjoyable.
Exclusively Chloe opens up just as Chloe is learning about her parent's divorce from a celeb magazine. It's quite the understatement to say that she's shocked, because all her life she's felt that her parents were truly going to be celebs that would stick it out for the More...
Sep 13, 2009
Definitely not a really difficult book but rather, Exclusively Chloe is a book that's just meant to pass the time away. It really was quite an adorable book.
Besides how adorable it is, there were some stuff that bothered me just a tiny bit.
First of all, there were some parts of Exclusively Chloe that just didn't seem to be realistic whatsoever. The transformation that Chloe-Grace had to go through to transfer school? All she did was cut her hair short and wearing "no More...
Besides how adorable it is, there were some stuff that bothered me just a tiny bit.
First of all, there were some parts of Exclusively Chloe that just didn't seem to be realistic whatsoever. The transformation that Chloe-Grace had to go through to transfer school? All she did was cut her hair short and wearing "no More...
Jun 06, 2009
Exclusively Chloe was by no means a provocative novel but rather something to sooth the time away. When I first spotted Exclusively Chloe I immediately knew that it would be an adorable read.
Chloe-Grace was the roundabout teen that wanted to escape. J.A. Yang created a perfect scenario that is popular in the famous society—divorce. So who can blame Chloe when she wanted to escape it all. The transition from famous Chloe to everyday Lilly was slightly unrealistic as a new haircut and More...
Chloe-Grace was the roundabout teen that wanted to escape. J.A. Yang created a perfect scenario that is popular in the famous society—divorce. So who can blame Chloe when she wanted to escape it all. The transition from famous Chloe to everyday Lilly was slightly unrealistic as a new haircut and More...
May 14, 2010
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Feb 04, 2009
3.5, really, but I like to round up. Chloe is an adopted Chinese daughter, the first of the celebrity adoption craze, with a movie star mother and a (fading) rock star dad. The press watches her every move, especially when her parents are on the rocks. Chloe goes undercover at a public (the horrors!) high school and is on a mission to find her biological family. This is the kind of teen chick lit I like ...
Jun 23, 2009
Chloe-Grace is a celebrity child who’s led a life in the tabloids thanks to her adoptive parents. Her mom is an Oscar award-winning actress and her dad is a rock star. Chloe has led a pretty awesome life of shopping and being famous up until now, but now she’s starting to question everything. Would it be better to be anonymous? And how will she ever know if people really like her for the right reasons? When Chloe gets a make-under and goes undercover at a public school she discovers love, friend
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Jun 05, 2011
Kids will love this. Especially ones who don't like novels with sad or upsetting events; this one is all pretty light and has a happy ending.
Sep 21, 2010
I have seriously read three other books with this exact.same.premise.
Can we come up with something new for our fictional starlets, please?
Can we come up with something new for our fictional starlets, please?
