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Gimme a Call
by
Sarah Mlynowski (Goodreads Author)
A new life is just a phone call away!
Devi's life isn't turning out at all like she wanted. She wasted the past three years going out with Bryan—cute, adorable, break-your-heart Bryan. Devi let her friendships fade, blew off studying, didn't join any clubs . . . and now that Bryan has broken up with her, she has nothing left.
Not even her stupid cell phone—she dropped it in...more
Devi's life isn't turning out at all like she wanted. She wasted the past three years going out with Bryan—cute, adorable, break-your-heart Bryan. Devi let her friendships fade, blew off studying, didn't join any clubs . . . and now that Bryan has broken up with her, she has nothing left.
Not even her stupid cell phone—she dropped it in...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
April 27th 2010
by Delacorte Press
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May 07, 2010
Arlene
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Gimme a Call by Mlynowski was a GREAT read that was a ton of fun! I enjoyed the book from cover to cover and could not have asked for a better plot and ending. The storyline is unique, the characters are very well developed, and as you read the book, you wonder… How is this going to resolve itself? Well, Sarah was clever and spot on with her perfect conclusion. I highly recommend this book if you're looking for a break from paranorm, but still want to have some fun with a bit of suspended realit...more
The story is about Devi, or Devorah, whose life is in a mishap, no friends, worried about college, and worst of all, a boyfriend who just left her.
Her cellphone accidentally fell in a wishing fountain, just as she wished she could talk to her younger self, just to re-do everything in her life.
Imagine her surprise when her younger self does answer her almost-dead phone, and even more surprising to find out that everything that her former self does differently in the past, changes the future, or...more
Her cellphone accidentally fell in a wishing fountain, just as she wished she could talk to her younger self, just to re-do everything in her life.
Imagine her surprise when her younger self does answer her almost-dead phone, and even more surprising to find out that everything that her former self does differently in the past, changes the future, or...more
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What a really cute story! At first I wasn’t sure I would get all that into it. I was confused as it went back and forth. But in true Mlynowski style she pulled me in and kept me there. I ended up not only loving both Devi’s but hoping that things would work out!
Gimme A Call is the story of broken hearted Devi, a high school senior that is dumped by the boyfriend she dumped all her friends for. Completely lost and miserable things get worse when she drops her phone in the mall fountain. Now Devi...more
Gimme A Call is the story of broken hearted Devi, a high school senior that is dumped by the boyfriend she dumped all her friends for. Completely lost and miserable things get worse when she drops her phone in the mall fountain. Now Devi...more
Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
Devi hates her senior year. In fact, she wishes that she could re-do her whole high school experience. When a freak phone accident occurs, she finds herself talking to her younger self. Now, she can tell her fourteen-year-old self all the things to fix before she ruins her life, starting with not dating her ex-boyfriend.
Devi spent so much time with him and neglected her friends and her school work. When they break up, she has nothing left. That's a...more
Devi hates her senior year. In fact, she wishes that she could re-do her whole high school experience. When a freak phone accident occurs, she finds herself talking to her younger self. Now, she can tell her fourteen-year-old self all the things to fix before she ruins her life, starting with not dating her ex-boyfriend.
Devi spent so much time with him and neglected her friends and her school work. When they break up, she has nothing left. That's a...more
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Oct 25, 2011
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"Devi ha construido su mundo en torno a Bryan, y ahora Bryan la ha dejado. Si hubiese sabido que todo iba a acabar así, no habría desperdiciado los cuatro años de instituto con él. Habría pasado más tiempo con sus amigas, habría prestado más atención a los estudios, a su familia… Sin Bryan está completamente sola. Si pudiese hablar con su yo de cuando tenía catorce años, podría advertirle de que jamás saliese con él. Mientras piensa esto, se le cae el móvil en las aguas contaminadas de la fuente...more
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Gimme A Call is a fun read. Devi is coming to the end of her Senior year. She hasn't gotten over the recent breakup with her long-term boyfriend, Bryan, when her phone suddenly allows her to talk with "Frosh," Freshman self. She quickly discovers how mutable past events are and sets her younger self to work "improving" their life, trying to get into a better college. Devi is in constant contact and conflict with Frosh--Devi is adamant about removing Bryan from her life almost as much as he is ab...more
Cute contemporary, paranormal chick lit
Seventeen-year-old Devi Banks will graduate high school in a few weeks, and the sole thing she's dedicated herself to for the past three and a half years, her relationship with her boyfriend Bryan, has blown up in her face. He is planning to attend a university in Montreal, and he doesn't want them to have a long-distance relationship. He and Devi have been joined at the hip for so long, he claims he needs to rediscover who he is separate from her.
Devi is h...more
Seventeen-year-old Devi Banks will graduate high school in a few weeks, and the sole thing she's dedicated herself to for the past three and a half years, her relationship with her boyfriend Bryan, has blown up in her face. He is planning to attend a university in Montreal, and he doesn't want them to have a long-distance relationship. He and Devi have been joined at the hip for so long, he claims he needs to rediscover who he is separate from her.
Devi is h...more
A Devi Banks las cosas no le puede ir peor, después de que su novio de hace
tres años, Bryan, lo deje con ella. Se da cuenta de que esta sola. Completamente
sola. No tiene amigos. Ha descuidado los estudios y su familia ya no es lo que era.
Y entonces su móvil se cae a la fuente del centro comercial. Genial.
Pero entonces le da al boton de llamada y... se llama así misma.
¡Puede llamarse a su yo de hace 3 años! Y entonces se da cuenta de podría arreglar
todo el desastre en el que esta.
Así que este es...more
tres años, Bryan, lo deje con ella. Se da cuenta de que esta sola. Completamente
sola. No tiene amigos. Ha descuidado los estudios y su familia ya no es lo que era.
Y entonces su móvil se cae a la fuente del centro comercial. Genial.
Pero entonces le da al boton de llamada y... se llama así misma.
¡Puede llamarse a su yo de hace 3 años! Y entonces se da cuenta de podría arreglar
todo el desastre en el que esta.
Así que este es...more
Gimme a Call , by Sarah Mlynowski is about a girl named Devi who may or may not have the worst ending to her high school career that is humanly possible. Devi spent all four years of high school dating the same guy, Bryan, until he broke up with her two weekends before the prom. Devi had given so much of her time and effort to her relationship with Bryan that she abandoned her friends, family, and her schoolwork. Alone now, Devi realizes that the future is grim for her, for she has no friends to...more
Gimme a Call written by Sarah Mlynowski , is an interesting plot, I have never read a novel like this before, it was intriguing. This seems like an interesting chick-let, but the pace of this novel was to slow for my taste; I wouldn’t recommend this book for impatient readers.
This book lures you in with making you think of ‘why’, as in the first chapter we find that her four year boyfriend dumps her before prom over the answering machine, “‘I wish you’d answer’… ‘you always answer’… ‘I’m sorry....more
This book lures you in with making you think of ‘why’, as in the first chapter we find that her four year boyfriend dumps her before prom over the answering machine, “‘I wish you’d answer’… ‘you always answer’… ‘I’m sorry....more
Gimme a Call
Omg this book is so interesting I love it because it’s not boring it keeps you hooked in it. It’s not one of those books that doesn’t make sense its really easy to understand. At some parts you made be thinking why she is doing that. How come she’s doing it? Later on you will find out how that little change can impact the future. The old one realizes that she wasted so much time with her ex boyfriend. She didn’t have her friend by her side no more; she doesn’t have her boyfriend by...more
Omg this book is so interesting I love it because it’s not boring it keeps you hooked in it. It’s not one of those books that doesn’t make sense its really easy to understand. At some parts you made be thinking why she is doing that. How come she’s doing it? Later on you will find out how that little change can impact the future. The old one realizes that she wasted so much time with her ex boyfriend. She didn’t have her friend by her side no more; she doesn’t have her boyfriend by...more
This was a very cute, quick read. After being devastated/blind-sided by her boyfriend Brian dumping her, Devi drops her cell phone in the mall fountain. She soon finds that the only call that will go through is to her 9th grade self. I was a little skeptical with a plot line like that but I had read 10 Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have) bye Sara Mlynowski and loved it so I decided to give it a shot.
I thought the idea of wishing to go back in time and tell your younger self not to mak...more
I thought the idea of wishing to go back in time and tell your younger self not to mak...more
ADORABLE!
Have I mentioned before that Sarah Mlynowski is the queen of adorable young adult fiction? If not, let's say it again! ADORABLE!
I picked up GIMME A CALL after reading Mlynowski's MAGIC IN MANHATTAN series. I had no idea what this one was about -- but I knew it would be cute. And, I certainly was not disappointed.
Devi, a high school senior, wasted most of her teenage years in a relationship with Bryan -- a cute, sweet, gorgeous boy who breaks her heart and dumps her senior year. Looking...more
Have I mentioned before that Sarah Mlynowski is the queen of adorable young adult fiction? If not, let's say it again! ADORABLE!
I picked up GIMME A CALL after reading Mlynowski's MAGIC IN MANHATTAN series. I had no idea what this one was about -- but I knew it would be cute. And, I certainly was not disappointed.
Devi, a high school senior, wasted most of her teenage years in a relationship with Bryan -- a cute, sweet, gorgeous boy who breaks her heart and dumps her senior year. Looking...more
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I loved it!! Seriously, 100% loved it! It was such a fun read, I almost didn't want it to end.
When I read the summary I honestly thought it was going to be a confusing read but it wasn't. Sure, Devi changed her - Ivy's - future time and time again by 'fixing' things but it was so well written I didn't feel out of the loop while reading it. I actually felt very informed in a funny, non boring way.
Devi/Ivy. Now, I know they're they same person just in different time periods but they're just so...more
I loved it!! Seriously, 100% loved it! It was such a fun read, I almost didn't want it to end.
When I read the summary I honestly thought it was going to be a confusing read but it wasn't. Sure, Devi changed her - Ivy's - future time and time again by 'fixing' things but it was so well written I didn't feel out of the loop while reading it. I actually felt very informed in a funny, non boring way.
Devi/Ivy. Now, I know they're they same person just in different time periods but they're just so...more
HISTORIA
Devi está echa un caos, su novio Bryan, ha terminado la relación después de tres años en los que ella estuvo absorbida por él, teniendo en consecuencia perder a sus amigas. En su casa las cosas no van del todo bien y ahora después de no atender debidamente sus estudios deberá conformarse con ir a una universidad sin categoría alguna. Ella, se siente al borde del abismo y desearía poder decir a su yo del pasado todo lo que debe hacer para que su vida no terminase en el desastre que vive a...more
Devi está echa un caos, su novio Bryan, ha terminado la relación después de tres años en los que ella estuvo absorbida por él, teniendo en consecuencia perder a sus amigas. En su casa las cosas no van del todo bien y ahora después de no atender debidamente sus estudios deberá conformarse con ir a una universidad sin categoría alguna. Ella, se siente al borde del abismo y desearía poder decir a su yo del pasado todo lo que debe hacer para que su vida no terminase en el desastre que vive a...more
Gimme a Call by Sarah Mlynowski is AMAAAZIIING!
When I first read the synopsis, I immediately lit up because I have actually thought about talking to my former self to 'correct' my mistakes in the past.
This book was such a delight to read. It's a story about a high school senior Devorah (Dev for short) who accidentally dropped her phone and when she tried to revive it, for some freak of technology (I was about to say freak of nature but it doesn't seem appropriate,haha), she can call her high sc...more
When I first read the synopsis, I immediately lit up because I have actually thought about talking to my former self to 'correct' my mistakes in the past.
This book was such a delight to read. It's a story about a high school senior Devorah (Dev for short) who accidentally dropped her phone and when she tried to revive it, for some freak of technology (I was about to say freak of nature but it doesn't seem appropriate,haha), she can call her high sc...more
My Summary: After being dumped by her boyfriend of four years, Devi realizes something: her life is in shambles. With no friends, an estranged sister and parents who hardly speak, Devi has nothing except her broken heart. And her phone.
But after accidentally dropping it in a mall fountain, Devi's phone appears to be on the fritz. It keeps calling the same number over and over: hers, four years earlier. Now with a connection to her past self, Devi plans her future - getting into the perfect colle...more
But after accidentally dropping it in a mall fountain, Devi's phone appears to be on the fritz. It keeps calling the same number over and over: hers, four years earlier. Now with a connection to her past self, Devi plans her future - getting into the perfect colle...more
After 17 year old Devi drops her phone in the mall fountain, she is amazed that it still works......sort of. The only person she can call is herself -- at age 14! After the initial shock wears off, she has a great idea -- fix all the things wrong with her life. After all, since her boyfriend just broke up with her and none of her friends from freshman year are speaking to her, what if she NEVER even went out with him in the first place? What if she can prevent her best friend from becoming anore...more
Even though I knew this wouldn't be a book for me, the time travel aspect of it made me read it (along with the fact that I'm trying to read as many YA books as I can to benefit my own writing). I was intrigued by the premise of a senior in high school able to talk to her freshman self and fix what she perceived as the flaws of her life. The execution of it all was quite clever, and it kept me intrigued all the way through. I didn't always particularly like the senior version of Devi, the main c...more
It's a really sweet, fun, fast read.
I'm enjoying it from the first chapter. Just need 6hrs to finish it.
The book reminds me to Adam Sandlers' kind of movie story; click (2006) and bed time story (2008)
It's started with brokenhearted Devy regrets on what she has done in the past years behind and wondering if only she can turn back times or go back to the previous years then she would not do some crap things she had done, like dating Brian which got her broken heart after 3.5 years together, lost...more
I'm enjoying it from the first chapter. Just need 6hrs to finish it.
The book reminds me to Adam Sandlers' kind of movie story; click (2006) and bed time story (2008)
It's started with brokenhearted Devy regrets on what she has done in the past years behind and wondering if only she can turn back times or go back to the previous years then she would not do some crap things she had done, like dating Brian which got her broken heart after 3.5 years together, lost...more
The book I am reading is called “Gimme a Call” by Sarah Mlynowski and it’s about this girl named Devi, and she discovers something great. One day, she is at the mall, and she drops her cell phone in a fountain. Then all of a sudden, her whole life is turned upside down. She can now call herself in the past! Now she can her past self what to do different, and fix mistakes, like dating Bryan. “Don’t you see? I’m pretty sure I’m you. In the future.” (Mlynowski 28)
I think this author did a good jo...more
I think this author did a good jo...more
I really enjoyed the book "Gimme a Call) by Sarah Mlynowski. The story is set when the main character Devi breaks up with her boyfriend of three years Bryan. Feeling cheated she immediately regrets losing touch with her friends as well as letting opportunities pass her by. This however all changes when she discovers that she can keep in touch with her 14year old younger self through her mysteriously "broken" cell phone. Re-living the past older Devi guides her younger self through teen life avoi...more
The concept is quirky and cute. What would you tell your younger self if your older self had already experienced her own decisions/mistakes? It's pretty cool when the two versions of Devi figure it out together...as soon as freshman Devi does (or even thinks) a new plan, it usually happens and immediately impacts senior Devi's life. I love that her college acceptance letter pinned to her bulletin board keeps changing. It shows where younger Devi's at as far as academics go.
It all begins because...more
It all begins because...more
I Think this was a very interesting book, what first caught my attention was the cover, but when i started actually reading the book it got alot better. For me this was a 1 night type book, like the one you just cant put down until you finish it. It is a very interesting story with very well developed characters. Devi, the main character expresses herself very well, and you actually feel like your there.
One thing i do have to say is that Sarah Mlynowski did a fantastic job with what many writers...more
One thing i do have to say is that Sarah Mlynowski did a fantastic job with what many writers...more
There are points in this book where I just want to scream at Devi! Devi, senior in high school, has just been dumped by her 3.5 year boyfriend. She is super depressed. At the mall she makes a wish to be able to go back in time and tell her freshman self not to date Brian. She drops her cell phone in the mall fountain and when she fishes it out, it only calls one number....HER FRESHMAN SELF! So senior Devi convinces frosh to not go out with Brian in the first place in order to alte the future, to...more
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Imagine how much better your life would be if you could just go back in time and fix all the stupid mistakes you made in the past. You could stop yourself from tripping in front of the cute guy you like or getting that horrible haircut. Maybe you could even stop yourself from dating the person who broke your heart!
When Devorah (Devi, for short) drops her cell phone in the nasty, mold-filled fountain at the mall, the phone seems to stop working completely,...more
Imagine how much better your life would be if you could just go back in time and fix all the stupid mistakes you made in the past. You could stop yourself from tripping in front of the cute guy you like or getting that horrible haircut. Maybe you could even stop yourself from dating the person who broke your heart!
When Devorah (Devi, for short) drops her cell phone in the nasty, mold-filled fountain at the mall, the phone seems to stop working completely,...more
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Devi Bank's life just isn't turning out the way she thought it would. With just weeks left until her high school graduation, she was dumped by her boyfriend of three years and she is coming to the realization that she doesn't have much else going on. Since meeting Bryan Devi has neglected her friendships, let her grades drop, and avoided any extra-curricular activities. Facing a fairly dismal future alone and attending a bottom-rung college, Devi thought life couldn't get any worse. That's when...more
May 24, 2010
Amanda
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3 of 5 stars
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Gimme A Call is a fun read. Devi is coming to the end of her Senior year. She hasn’t gotten over the recent breakup with her long-term boyfriend, Bryan, when her phone suddenly allows her to talk with “Frosh,” Freshman self. She quickly discovers how mutable past events are and sets her younger self to work “improving” their life, trying to get into a better college. Devi is in constant contact and conflict with Frosh–Devi is adamant about removing Bryan from her life almost as much as he is abo...more
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Sarah is the author of BRAS & BROOMSTICKS, FROGS & FRENCH KISSES, SPELLS & SLEEPING BAGS and PARTIES & POTIONS—all in the YA ‘Magic in Manhattan’ series, as well as GIMME A CALL and the upcoming TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE). Along with Lauren Myracle and E. Lockhart, she also wrote HOW TO BE BAD.
Sarah’s five novels for adults, MILKRUN, FISHBOWL, AS SEEN ON TV, MO...more
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