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Things Are Gonna Get Ugly
When Ernestine Smith moved to California, she reinvented herself as Taffeta— so successfully that she’s now the leader of the most popular clique at La Cambria Middle School. That is, until she’s caught cheating off brilliant but geeky Winslow Fromes and her teacher gives her the option of a fresh start. What Taffeta doesn’t realize is that Mr. Dribble can magically turn h
...morePaperback, 272 pages
Published
June 23rd 2009
by Aladdin
(first published June 11th 2009)
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“I look up, staring at the face staring back at me. There was no mistake … there must be someone else looking at herself in the mirror.” Things Are Gonna Get Ugly by Hillary Homzie is about a girl named Ernestine Smith. During a move from Pennsylvania to California she transforms herself from being geeky and ugly Ernestine to being beautiful and popular Taffeta Smith. At Cambridge Middle School she is known as the leader of the girls, but when she is caught cheating off of Winslow (a guy who has...more
Over the summer my niece (who is 11) and I started sharing books on our Kindle readers and doing a mini book club. We both read the story then text about it back and forth to keep in touch and spend time together. This is the first book we chose to read and it was really fun! We both agreed that there were quite a few LOL places and that the ending was super cute. My niece loved the characters and I liked that it had no questionable content for her to be reading. Our second book (Rebecca and the...more
), which we just finished was also really good. It was more fantasy, but equally cute and fun to read!
Taffeta Smith has almost everything. She thinks she rules the school.Her life suddenly goes spiraling out of control. Taffeta cheats on her test. And her teacher knows. Mr. Dribble, offers Taffeta a fresh start,Taffeta agrees thinking that he means a fresh start on the test, not on her life. The second she agrees everything goes cold and she's transformed into Ernestine. Her old self. Ernestine gets a first hand experience on how mean Taffeta's old friends are. Ernestine's only way back to Taffe...more
The main characters in, Things are Gonna Get Ugly, by Hillary Homzie, are Ernestine, Taffeta, and Winslow. Ernestine cheats off of her friends test. The next day Ernestine doesn't feel normal or the same. She starts to look uglier and doesn't have much friends anymore. When Ernestine finds out.... Read this to find out what happens to Ernestine. Ernestine is so popular and cheats off of tests. But then she changes and is nice and doesn't have much friends. This book entertains the reader with gi...more
This book, I picked it up on my English Teacher's shelf. It was a last minute decision to find a book and read when I walked in (and Miss Ciciliot sorry if you are reading this) but I want to say it looked better than it read. I personally really hate books like this because they bore me sooooo much. This book is #87 on my list. Thank you for reading this. Hoped it helped a little bit.
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Okay, yes, I am the author. But if I don't like my book....The truth is put in five stars and then tried to backtrack cause I felt a wee bit embarrassed. But it turns you don't take away the star part once you put it out there in cyberspace. Oh, well, it might look weird. But I do like my book!
It was a fluffy piece of candy with a few tender portions...was exactly what I wanted and the moment, but I wouldn't really recommend.
great book yet very weird at the same time nut just because it looks girly i did not find it girly
When an It girl's life is turned upside-down. And things do get ugly. Band-nerd, no-friends ugly.
This is one of my favorite books! It was amazing!!
Hillary has a great comedic talent and it really shows in her writing! Fun book!
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Hillary H. B. Homzie's background as a writer and performer of sketch comedy informs her first novel for tweens. Her Aladdin chapter book series Alien Clones from Outer Space has been adapted as an animated TV series in Australia and may be shown in the US in the future. She lives in Napa, California with her family.
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