Looking for a new beginning after a terrible mean girl past, Charlie Healey realizes there's no escaping high school drama...
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Feb 03, 2011
Myranda
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I love this book...I can't put it down I just bought it yesterday and im already on the ninetenth chapter!
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Jan 18, 2012
Lisa
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Plot review from School Library Journal
"Attempting to avoid vicious, former "frenemies" (and their influence), Charlotte Healey starts her high school career in neighboring Harmony Falls, hoping for a clean slate. Things look promising when she makes friends the first day and awkwardly reunites, after three years, with ex-best friend/boy-next-door-turned-crush Will. Unfortunately, people from Charlie's past keep turning up, like Nidhi, former target of the nasty kids at her o More...
"Attempting to avoid vicious, former "frenemies" (and their influence), Charlotte Healey starts her high school career in neighboring Harmony Falls, hoping for a clean slate. Things look promising when she makes friends the first day and awkwardly reunites, after three years, with ex-best friend/boy-next-door-turned-crush Will. Unfortunately, people from Charlie's past keep turning up, like Nidhi, former target of the nasty kids at her o More...
Dec 11, 2011
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Oct 03, 2011
Chris
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If you had the opportunity to start fresh, to make yourself over as someone new, what would you change and who would you be? All those bad memories you hold onto, the mistakes and humiliations and guilts that haunt you: gone. Do you think you could pull it off, or would you slip right back into your old habits and make yourself over as the same old person?
That’s what Charlie (Charlotte) faces: she found herself inadvertently a mean girl in middle school because she valued her popular More...
That’s what Charlie (Charlotte) faces: she found herself inadvertently a mean girl in middle school because she valued her popular More...
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Jul 15, 2011
Nhi
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Dec 14, 2010
Sara
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3.5 stars. After a rough time in middle school where she hung out with some mean girl friends and started to become one of them, Charlie decides to start over at a new high school where she knows no one and has a clean slate. There, she runs into a girl whose middle school life she helped ruin, as well as a boy she used to be best friends with years ago but who'd moved away and only now returned.
The book was interesting enough, but it didn't feel like much happened. Charlie join More...
The book was interesting enough, but it didn't feel like much happened. Charlie join More...
Jun 07, 2010
Bianca
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Rosalind Wiseman, whose acclaimed book Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence was the inspiration for the movies Mean Girls, knows about high school students as this books deals with many different issues all relating to things teenagers deal with often.
Charlie Healey comes to Harmony Falls High School hoping for a new, fresh start. During middle school she was friends with girls that were stuck up, popular, a More...
Charlie Healey comes to Harmony Falls High School hoping for a new, fresh start. During middle school she was friends with girls that were stuck up, popular, a More...
Apr 04, 2010
AnnaBnana
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Charlie is the new girl at Harmony Falls High School. After spending her middle school year as the minion of the Mean Girls, she chose a different track in high school, accepting an opportunity to attend a neighboring high school.
Charlie can't leave her past entirely behind though, as a couple of surprises from her past pop up in the hallways of Harmony Falls. Her group of friends is a lovely mix of old and new and Charlie is sure she's in for a year where the biggest drama is how More...
Charlie can't leave her past entirely behind though, as a couple of surprises from her past pop up in the hallways of Harmony Falls. Her group of friends is a lovely mix of old and new and Charlie is sure she's in for a year where the biggest drama is how More...
Nov 22, 2009
Eleni ( La Femme Readers )
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After reading Boys, Girls & Other Hazardous Materials, Rosalind has made my favorite debut YA author list. Her first young adult book was beautifully written. Her teenage tone was spot on and the fluidity of the story was addictive. The sense of humor throughout the chapters put a smile on my face and I caught myself giggling at times. A lot of YA books are about mean girls in high school but, Rosalind presented the total opposite. She introduced boys going through the same cycle of acceptance a
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Oct 21, 2009
Anne
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I got an ARC of this book and was thrilled. It was my first one as an official librarian. I prefer the cover on the ARC (black with a red bomb) to the one shown here. I kind of feel like this cover subverts the whole premise of the book. It seemed to me that the book is supposed to be about kids who care about more than just hooking up (not that they don't care about that) but then, bam the cover shows two kids making out. Maybe I'm missing something.
One question, why is it alw More...
One question, why is it alw More...
Jan 09, 2012
Fatima
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This book was a fast and light read for me! I've been reading books about 18 or 17 year olds lately that I found myself sighing in relief over this fresh 15 year old's perspective. It was a pretty clean book as far as sexual content is concerned and if you're looking for a good Teen Chick Lit book, this is a book for you!
I finished this book in a day! I loved the main character, Charlie and her story--how she overcame the mean girls who were supposedly her "best friends". A More...
I finished this book in a day! I loved the main character, Charlie and her story--how she overcame the mean girls who were supposedly her "best friends". A More...
Nov 08, 2011
Noelle
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Charlie in the beginning had a normal happy friendship with her neighbor Will, they were the best of friends and practically grew up together. Unfortunately as they got older girls started to invade their friendship, by hanging out with them and sort of taking away Will from Charlie. Charlie realized that they were getting older and he was getting into a phase of being interested in girls never said anything. She also noticed how happy he was and how much he enjoyed their attention that she neve
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Jun 29, 2011
Faye
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Well, I kind of think that this would be a so-so book before I read it and just wanted to see if I can prove myself correct but after finishing it, I think it was better than that. Not brilliantly made but this book being a reality-based fiction seems much more okay than the other books I’ve read on the same genre.
First, I did quite like the plot with Charlie or Charlotte transferring to another school because she wants a change from being friends or rather frenemies with tw More...
First, I did quite like the plot with Charlie or Charlotte transferring to another school because she wants a change from being friends or rather frenemies with tw More...
Mar 19, 2011
kb
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I had high hopes for this one, given it was written by the author of the book which the film Mean Girls, which I absolutely love, was based upon. Sure, that was a bit unfair because nonfic and fic are obviously different genre. And I guess it's hard for some people who have flair in writing reality to just move on to fantasy like that, because they'd always go back to basing their fic with facts. Which is perfectly alright, okay. But I just thought that the author could have spiced this story up
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Jan 27, 2011
Afra
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Truly this book had all of high school; the drama, crushes, friends, peer pressure and the innate desire to fit in. Charlotte-Charlie-spends her junior high years surrounded by frenemies who constantly put her down and she deals with it. All she wants to do is start over, so when she gets an opportunity to transfer to a different high school for her freshman year, she jumps on it. Right away it's a great start; making a new and promising friend right away and then seeing her best friend, Will Ed
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Apr 20, 2011
Ricki
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279 Pages
1. Main Conflict: Well, when you saw the cover and the title of this book, you probably think about high school life right away, right? I did and I was right. This book is about this new girl, Charlotte Healey or Charlie, who thought that she's done with all the drama after surviving in Middle School packed with mean girls. She decides to leave it all behind. But then on the orientation day, she meets with her childhood friend, Will, who moved away not long ago. Now that she More...
1. Main Conflict: Well, when you saw the cover and the title of this book, you probably think about high school life right away, right? I did and I was right. This book is about this new girl, Charlotte Healey or Charlie, who thought that she's done with all the drama after surviving in Middle School packed with mean girls. She decides to leave it all behind. But then on the orientation day, she meets with her childhood friend, Will, who moved away not long ago. Now that she More...
Sep 30, 2009
Megan
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Thanks to Penguin Young Readers Group for the advance galley!
Charlie transfers to a new high school, hoping to be free of the girls who made her life miserable in middle school. While she makes friends with two genuine, kind girls, she discovers that boys can be just as cruel as girls. She is forced to make a tough decision and try to learn from the lessons she learned in 8th grade.
This was a fairly realistic portrayal of the status system of high school. At times ther More...
Charlie transfers to a new high school, hoping to be free of the girls who made her life miserable in middle school. While she makes friends with two genuine, kind girls, she discovers that boys can be just as cruel as girls. She is forced to make a tough decision and try to learn from the lessons she learned in 8th grade.
This was a fairly realistic portrayal of the status system of high school. At times ther More...
May 26, 2011
Ariel
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I'm giving this book one of the lowest ratings I've given a book in a long time. Mostly because it was so boring that I can barely stand to waste more brain power thinking about it to critique what it was boring. But, really, this book was full of bland dialouge, bland characters, bland plot developments, bland vocabulary... were you bored reading that sentence? Then this book is not for you!
Seriously, let me list off the top of my head the things in this book that I felt were tri More...
Seriously, let me list off the top of my head the things in this book that I felt were tri More...
Feb 28, 2010
Robby
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Mean Girls, when it was released, really affected the world of teenagers. It was an accurate portrayal of teenage girls and boys and the things we do to each other. I was nine years old when Mean Girls came out. What did I know?
I know a lot more now.
When I read that Rosalind Wiseman, the author of the book that Mean Girls was based on, had a new book coming out, I knew I had to read it.
Of course Around The World Tours was already having a tour for it and it was too late to sign More...
I know a lot more now.
When I read that Rosalind Wiseman, the author of the book that Mean Girls was based on, had a new book coming out, I knew I had to read it.
Of course Around The World Tours was already having a tour for it and it was too late to sign More...
Sep 01, 2011
Büsra
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Mar 27, 2010
Sandy
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2.5 stars, rounded up since I didn't actively dislike it. If you're interested in a book about making the transition into high school and deeling with peer pressure, than I guess this isn't the worst book to try. But clever, dramatic, and gossipy like "Mean Girls" this book is not despite the advertising.
My biggest problem with this book is that the dialogue needs some help. It's very "he said - she said" and matter-of-fact, and honestly just boring at times. More...
My biggest problem with this book is that the dialogue needs some help. It's very "he said - she said" and matter-of-fact, and honestly just boring at times. More...
Jan 13, 2010
Princess Bookie
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My Thoughts: This is the first book by Rosalind Wiseman that I have read. I've heard both good and bad on this one. I really did enjoy it though. Yes, a little bit of it was predictable but I still enjoyed reading it. We meet Charlie who just transferred to a new school and does not know anyone. She makes a friend fast and on that same day also runs into her old friend Will. She has not seen him in 3 years! He moved away and now he is back at her new school. He is A LOT hotter than she remembers
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Feb 01, 2011
Tiff
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3.5 stars.
By the author of "Queen Bees and Wannabees" (from which came the movie "Mean Girls") comes a tale of, well, mean boys. Even though the story isn't told by a boy, it focuses quite a bit on the dynamics of high school boys and the lengths they will go to to be accepted. Quite a switch from most other books I've read! I kind of wish this WAS told from a male perspective, mostly for marketability purposes, I think it might have a wider audience of readers if More...
By the author of "Queen Bees and Wannabees" (from which came the movie "Mean Girls") comes a tale of, well, mean boys. Even though the story isn't told by a boy, it focuses quite a bit on the dynamics of high school boys and the lengths they will go to to be accepted. Quite a switch from most other books I've read! I kind of wish this WAS told from a male perspective, mostly for marketability purposes, I think it might have a wider audience of readers if More...
Oct 18, 2010
Jenna
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Have you ever experienced when the guy you love is taken away by your so-called "best friends?" Have you ever experienced when you fake being BFF's with someone? Well, Charlie Healey had to deal with all of these problems during middle school and she wants to get away from it all when she goes to high school. She decides to go to Harmony Falls, a very exclusive private high school. Little does she know that her old best guy friend from middle school, who moved away, had moved back over
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May 11, 2010
Pamela
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Freshman Charlotte "Charlie" Healey's plan to shed her "mean girl" image at her new high school hits a road block after meeting her former next-door neighbor and best friend, Will, who is hanging out with a questionable crew.
Charlie's a girl who's trying to do the right thing, even as she acknowledges that she tends to lose her backbone around her friends. When her new (and renewed) friends appear to be making wrong decisions, she has to decide whether to go along, More...
Charlie's a girl who's trying to do the right thing, even as she acknowledges that she tends to lose her backbone around her friends. When her new (and renewed) friends appear to be making wrong decisions, she has to decide whether to go along, More...
Jan 11, 2010
Brooklyn
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reviewed by Twilight Brit(TCRC)
"Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials" is written by Rosalind Wiseman whose book, "Queen Bees and Wannabees" was the basis for the movie, "Mean Girls."
Charlotte Healey (a.k.a. Charlie) is not a girl who cares much about her external looks. In other words, Charlie doesn't complain about her body, looks, or losing weight. Charlie is ecstatic on her first day of high school because that means starting a new reputat More...
"Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials" is written by Rosalind Wiseman whose book, "Queen Bees and Wannabees" was the basis for the movie, "Mean Girls."
Charlotte Healey (a.k.a. Charlie) is not a girl who cares much about her external looks. In other words, Charlie doesn't complain about her body, looks, or losing weight. Charlie is ecstatic on her first day of high school because that means starting a new reputat More...
Dec 26, 2009
Abby
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After a terrible 8th grade year caught in the midst of the Mean Girls, Charlie is looking forward to starting over at Harmony Falls High School. But instead of Mean Girls, Charlie finds herself having to deal with mean boys.
I mean, the book was fine. It was okay. It was mostly enjoyable, though my attention started to wander about halfway through. I don't know that this book added anything new to the shelves upon shelves of YA fiction available and the main hook seems to be that the More...
I mean, the book was fine. It was okay. It was mostly enjoyable, though my attention started to wander about halfway through. I don't know that this book added anything new to the shelves upon shelves of YA fiction available and the main hook seems to be that the More...
Feb 01, 2012
Brittany Lau
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While reading this book, I was very engaged to it. It was really funny, had drama, and had a clever setting ast the same time. However, I wished it was longer since I read it within a few days. This book was about a girl name Charlie who talks about her life in high school and how she dealed with all the drama. Moreover, she purposely attended the school outside of her town so that she was able to meet new people and forgot all about the other people in her past. She eventually made a few close
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Nov 06, 2011
Ashley
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Charlie Healy couldn't wait to get away from her Middle School and her frenemies. Having a chance to go to a new High School and run away from her past, Charlie joins Harmony Falls high school where she gets new friends, new crushes and a place in the newspaper. However, when her past catches up to her, shes stuck. Should she go back to acting like her frenemies minion or stand up for something she thinks is right? This book is full of humor, teenage social hierarchy and betrayal which allowed m
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Apr 14, 2010
Jessica
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This was a cute book, but nothing life changing. There were a lot of good parts, but then other parts dragged, and yet other parts seemed like they could have been cut out entirely (like some of the dialogue). It's a book about hazing and frenemies, but not in a Mean Girls way. The MC has been there, done that with the mean girls and now she's trying to put what she learned from that experience into practice.
As with a lot of other people, I MUCH prefer the cover on the ARC. This co More...
As with a lot of other people, I MUCH prefer the cover on the ARC. This co More...
