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Read in October, 2008
E. Lockhart is amazing. She took the gender-role of teenage girls and flipped it on it's ear. She gave us a smart character (mentally) who is still a teenage girl who wants and needs to be accepted socially. So when we see her making boneheaded choices, it makes sense and we feel bad for her and root for her because we know she can do better. And then, slowly, great pacing BTW, Lockhart and her protagonist Frankie Landau-Banks slam the reader with a joyful heaping of anarachy from Landau-Banks m...more
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Read in August, 2008
This was exactly what I needed to read right now. I swear, Ms. Lockhart gets better with each book. And Frankie is one of my favorite YA characters - ever.
I wish this book had been around when I was 14. And if I'm being completely honest, this is the book I wish I'd written. Totally shortlisted on my (meager) list of Printz contenders.
I wish this book had been around when I was 14. And if I'm being completely honest, this is the book I wish I'd written. Totally shortlisted on my (meager) list of Printz contenders.
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