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Smart Girls Get What They Want
by Sarah Strohmeyer (Goodreads Author)
by Sarah Strohmeyer (Goodreads Author)
Smart Girls Get What They Want is a high school contemp story that has everything and is an absolute must read with 5 ★★★★★ Stars
Loved, loved, loved this book. Finally an author who puts high school girls in a place of achievement, showing young girls that smart is sexy and powerful.
Three best friends since kindergarten, Gigi, Bea and Neerja make a pact to be the best. They will get the best grades and get into the best colleges. But when they are helping Neerja’s sister pack for her Ivy League College, they come across her senior yearbook. Flipping through the pages, they find most empty and when they do come across a comment its things like “You should’ve talked more.” With this knowledge they decide they will stand out and be known.
Told from Gigi’s point of view we travel through just a few months of high school and look at how different events change these girls life. When Gigi is accused of cheater with class clown Mike, Gigi decides to run for school board student rep to get a letter out of her personal file that will keep her from her dream college and Mike from getting a scholarship.
Neerja decides to try-out for Romeo & Juliet to get close to a guy only to find out she doesn’t like him as much as she thought she did and the one she’s truly in love with has been under her nose the entire time.
Bea faces her demons and goes out for the ski team, even though skiing had been forbidden in house since her brother almost paralyzed himself.
Each action by these girls had positive reinforcement on someone else. Gigi learned to see Mike for who he truly is, just like her. Bea helped save a struggling girls ski team and Neerja was able to step out of her sister’s shadow and become her own person, both off and on stage.
Smart Girls Get What They Want doesn’t lack anything. Humor, love, drama, it’s all there and delivered flawlessly. The realistic nature of the story is spot on; characters aren’t thrown into the unbelievable with no way to escape. Their actions are tried and true, a pure testament to a smart writer.
I was pleasantly surprised and enticed throughout, bravo Sarah Strohmeyer
Loved, loved, loved this book. Finally an author who puts high school girls in a place of achievement, showing young girls that smart is sexy and powerful.
Three best friends since kindergarten, Gigi, Bea and Neerja make a pact to be the best. They will get the best grades and get into the best colleges. But when they are helping Neerja’s sister pack for her Ivy League College, they come across her senior yearbook. Flipping through the pages, they find most empty and when they do come across a comment its things like “You should’ve talked more.” With this knowledge they decide they will stand out and be known.
Told from Gigi’s point of view we travel through just a few months of high school and look at how different events change these girls life. When Gigi is accused of cheater with class clown Mike, Gigi decides to run for school board student rep to get a letter out of her personal file that will keep her from her dream college and Mike from getting a scholarship.
Neerja decides to try-out for Romeo & Juliet to get close to a guy only to find out she doesn’t like him as much as she thought she did and the one she’s truly in love with has been under her nose the entire time.
Bea faces her demons and goes out for the ski team, even though skiing had been forbidden in house since her brother almost paralyzed himself.
Each action by these girls had positive reinforcement on someone else. Gigi learned to see Mike for who he truly is, just like her. Bea helped save a struggling girls ski team and Neerja was able to step out of her sister’s shadow and become her own person, both off and on stage.
Smart Girls Get What They Want doesn’t lack anything. Humor, love, drama, it’s all there and delivered flawlessly. The realistic nature of the story is spot on; characters aren’t thrown into the unbelievable with no way to escape. Their actions are tried and true, a pure testament to a smart writer.
I was pleasantly surprised and enticed throughout, bravo Sarah Strohmeyer
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Reading Progress
| 05/28/2012 | page 82 |
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23.0% | |
| 05/29/2012 | page 352 |
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100.0% | "Loved every bit" |
