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The Girls
Meet Mary: SheP level: Z+
Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
April 1st 2009
by Amulet Books
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Who's seen the movie "The Women" where if you can recall , it featured around a main character whose husband had been cheating on her with another women, and the friends all banded together to "expose" the other women who was below their class as a shopgirl.
The Girls by Tucker Shaw is a modern remake of the classic play "The Women" and whereas the movie was aimed at the older audience of women. The Girls is aimed simply at the Teenage/ YA audience. In the Gir...more
The Girls by Tucker Shaw is a modern remake of the classic play "The Women" and whereas the movie was aimed at the older audience of women. The Girls is aimed simply at the Teenage/ YA audience. In the Gir...more
The Girls was a drama filled novel which I enjoyed reading. I liked that it was short, which allowed me to finish it quickly.
Mary was my favorite character, because even though she is the richest girl in her school, she doesn't take it to her head, and use her money for granted. For example, whenever she buys lattes, she always goes to the cheap coffee shops because buying lattes at an expensive coffee shop that tastes the same isn't worth the extra money. I honestly felt really bad fo...more
Mary was my favorite character, because even though she is the richest girl in her school, she doesn't take it to her head, and use her money for granted. For example, whenever she buys lattes, she always goes to the cheap coffee shops because buying lattes at an expensive coffee shop that tastes the same isn't worth the extra money. I honestly felt really bad fo...more
Girls, a novel by Tucker Shaw, is a modern retelling of Claire Boothe Luce's classic play The Women. The original play did not feature any males in the cast and neither does the book. Males are important part of the plot but there is no visible dialog/scenes with males.
Meet Peggy. A culinary genious from Denver. A girl who attends preppy boarding school at Aspen, Colorado. Meet Mary, Peggy's best friend. A girl who has just learned that her boyfriend Stephen is cheating on her. Meet ...more
Meet Peggy. A culinary genious from Denver. A girl who attends preppy boarding school at Aspen, Colorado. Meet Mary, Peggy's best friend. A girl who has just learned that her boyfriend Stephen is cheating on her. Meet ...more
Tucker Shaw's The Girls is based upon the play The Women, which also has a movie version with an all-star cast, FYI. So while I hadn't seen the play, going into The Girls, I had some idea of where the novel was heading. Luckily, The Girls met my expectations and then some. Shaw did a good job of intertwining the girls' individual stories so that they tied together beautifully. Since the novel's less than 200 pages (the actual product description includes the pages of recipes after the novel is o...more
This was a pretty trashy novel but quite fun. If you remember the old movie the Women, with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford, this follows it along but set in a girls boarding school. Peggy is not one to spread gossip, but she hears that Stephen, the boyfriend of her best friend Mary, is playing around with Crystal, a hussy who works in a boutique. Peggy chooses not to tell Mary, but Mary eventually does find out, from Sylvia and Amber. Apparently Crystal is not just happy with Stephen and...more
The book The Girls by Tucker Shaw is an amazing book but, it's only for GIRLS. Girls is about a girl named Peggy and she goes to a Girls Boarding School in Aspen with a lot of rich and snotty girls. Except for a girl named Mary, her and Peggy are best friends. Sad for Mary her boyfriend is cheating on her with another girl named Crystal. There are two other girls named Sylvia and Amber they are both rude and like to gossip. Sylvia is very rich and snotty. Amber is a snot and always the first o...more
I like to think of books like this as snack cakes. They can be yummy, but they're not chocolate cake, and while they're nice to have once in a while, too many will make you ill.
The Girls is yet another Gossip Girl-esc book, though the catch here is that despite all the boy drama, you never actually meet the boys. In fact, throughout the story the boys are nothing more than names that trigger emotions and catty behavior that would make Blair Waldorf proud. It's quite clever really, and ...more
The Girls is yet another Gossip Girl-esc book, though the catch here is that despite all the boy drama, you never actually meet the boys. In fact, throughout the story the boys are nothing more than names that trigger emotions and catty behavior that would make Blair Waldorf proud. It's quite clever really, and ...more
The Girls reminded me of a series like Gossip Girl, only a tamer version. It has less swearing, no sex, and an equal amount of backstabbing bitchiness. I love books like this, so it'll come as no surprise to hear that I devoured The Girls in one sitting. It's a modern retelling of The Women, a play by Clare Booth Luce, and although I haven't ever read the source material, I had no problems getting to grips with the story.
Tucker Shaw has an excellent grasp on the lives of rich teen gi...more
Tucker Shaw has an excellent grasp on the lives of rich teen gi...more
Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com
Peggy has just returned to Maroon Bells School for Girls (MBSG) after break. She stops off at the Timberline (aka the Timberlake) to get a coffee. If she'd have gone straight to school, she would never have heard the gossip. But she did, and from there, the start of the semester goes downhill.
Peggy has overheard Amber (who works at the Timberline) and Sylvia (a rich girl at MBSG) sharing gossip about Mary. Mary is Peggy's roommate an...more
Peggy has just returned to Maroon Bells School for Girls (MBSG) after break. She stops off at the Timberline (aka the Timberlake) to get a coffee. If she'd have gone straight to school, she would never have heard the gossip. But she did, and from there, the start of the semester goes downhill.
Peggy has overheard Amber (who works at the Timberline) and Sylvia (a rich girl at MBSG) sharing gossip about Mary. Mary is Peggy's roommate an...more
At a prestigious boarding school in Aspen, Colorado, one week is going to change the lives of these girls forever. What starts as a rumor that Mary’s boyfriend is sleeping with some other girl spirals into a mass of lying, cheating, and scandal. Boys…can’t live with ‘em, can’t…well, sure you can live without ‘em!
This book is loosely inspired by The Women, a 1936 play that was later made into a film with Rosalind Russel and Joan Crawford, and then remade in 2008 in a less amusing vers...more
This book is loosely inspired by The Women, a 1936 play that was later made into a film with Rosalind Russel and Joan Crawford, and then remade in 2008 in a less amusing vers...more
This is a redone version of the play THE WOMEN. Very light and quick read. Not an intense or earth- shattering story (just teen boyfriend drama), but sometimes you need a fun escape, and this book was perfect for that. The writing was good; when the words just flow from the page and into your brain, you know the author can really write.
One extraordinary thing about this book is the author is male and he really nailed the girl's voice. Very unusual, I think, and tough to pull off!
One extraordinary thing about this book is the author is male and he really nailed the girl's voice. Very unusual, I think, and tough to pull off!
I wanted to like this book as fun, light chick lit. The first half of the book was entertaining. But then it fell apart. Too many girls got involved and too many love triangles were involved. I wish the book would have just focused on Peggy and left the other rich, spoiled Gossip Girl type characters out. Perhaps if I was familiar with the play/movie "The Women" I would have appreciated it more. On the positive side it was an extremely quick read.
I thought this book was cute. I think it's a good book for girls. The narrator of the story has to deal with some rumors going around about her best friend, and you see how they both have to deal with the situation.
I think the story is a little slow in certain points and it's a little difficult to get attached to the characters, but overall, it was a good book.
I love the recipes at the end!
I think the story is a little slow in certain points and it's a little difficult to get attached to the characters, but overall, it was a good book.
I love the recipes at the end!
A quick and entertaining read by the food editor for the Denver Post (how is it that a young (thirties? I met him at ALA) man can write in teenage girl voices so well?). Contains mouthwatering food descriptions, natch, and a few recipes at the back. Makes me want to go and read the original -- Clare Booth Luce's The Women.
We're hoping to get this local author to come to the Teen Lit Conference this April. Cute book - I would have never guessed it was written by a man! Peggy and her roommate Mary are juniors at an exclusive girl's boarding school in Aspen. Mary is beautiful and rich and Peggy is on scholarship, but they are best friends. When Peggy finds out that Mary's perfect boyfriend is cheating on her, she doesn't know what to do. There's lots of angst and backstabbing, and cooking too (Peggy works at a l...more
"The Girls" by Tucker Shaw was very interesting. It was your typical private, all girls school drama that you see on every new TV show. But this book was all girls. There were boys mentioned, but they never spoke. It was something different that kind of spiced it up a bit. Overall I enjoyed it!
Well .. its gets Good at the end , I Seriously thought it would be better .. there is something missing in it .. But overall love the recipes and the whole Gossip Drama
Tucker shaw could've taken it a bit fair & at whole lot better
Tucker shaw could've taken it a bit fair & at whole lot better
I thought the book was horrible. I usually like all books I read but this had no plot, and no meaning. It just didn't all tie together for me, and if I put it down I could easily forget it.
I would have really wanted some guy characters put into the storyline but it's called the girls. If you like mulit-girlfriend girl drama and snotty rich girls read it.
this wasn't what you'd call a "good" book, but sometimes i just want to read simple, light fluff with silly characters, and that's what it is.
About five girls. One is a the main charecter PEGGY, one is the best friend MARY, one is a barista AMBER, one is a total deviant slut trying to get with everyones boyfriend and play with them CRYSTAL, and one is a harmless rich bitch SYLVIA.
September 8, 2011
Start Time - 3:21
End Time - 4:23
Start Page: 7
End Page: 110
Start Time - 3:21
End Time - 4:23
Start Page: 7
End Page: 110
One week. Aspen, Colorado. Five girls. Several guys. Gossip. Lies. Cheating. Grilled cheese sandwiches.
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I have read this book it was really good .also the cover shows it all this book is really about gossip.
This book was just alright. There were a couple parts that made it interesting but other than that it was just ok.
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for a book "in which no boys ever appear" it is all about boys...wasn't terribly impressed
It's like a chick flick book. I would recommend it if you like chick flicks. Ish..
Not really my kind of read...that said, it was way better than I expected!
this book was okay i wish it were longer but i did like the recipies
okey in a gossip girl way...ehh
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Tucker Shaw, who has been featured on the Today show, is the author of Everything I Ate and many popular books for teens, including Confessions of a Backup Dancer. His previous Amulet novel, The Girls, was a twist on Clare Booth Luce's classic play The Women. He lives in Denver, where he is a food editor for the Denver Post.
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