Blonde at Heart

Elle Woods #1

by Natalie Standiford

Elle Woods is in love with the star of the basketball team—Hunter Perry. Unfortunately, the man of her dreams doesn’t notice her. But a little obstacle like that isn’t going to stop Elle. Pushing her insecurities aside, Elle decides to show Hunter just what he is missing by whipping the school’s cheerleaders and basketball players into shape. And along the way, Elle figures out the true meaning of blonde at heart.

Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

About the author

Natalie Standiford, author of "Astrid Sees All," "How to Say Goodbye in Robot," "Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters," "The Secret Tree," "Switched at Birthday," "The Boy on the Bridge," and "The Only Girl in School," has written picture books, nonfiction, chapter books, teen novels, an entry in the 39 Clues series, and even horror novels for young adults. Standiford also plays bass in the rock band Tiger Beat, with fellow YA authors Libba Bray, Daniel Ehrenhaft, and Barnabas Miller.
Find out more at her web site, www.nataliestandiford.com.

Reviews

[T. Green]

If you liked the movie Legally Blond you would love this book. It is based of the movie but it goes into much more detail For example, I bet you didn't know by the movie Elle Woods used to be a starge little 'nerd'. This book goes throught how she got so confident and popular.

[Ivory]

They have this book at my library i may or may not get it!!!!!!!!it looks good and funny!!!!

[McKenzie]

This is an amazing book. I love the characters, Elle is my favorite. I loved the story line. I thought it was really good. I liked how the author made Elle determined to transform the basketball and cheerleading teams into really good cheerleaders and players. I also don't think it was just so she could win Hunter, her crush. Elle really wanted to transform them. She didn't have to. I loved this book. I love the movie Legally Blonde. So, I cannot what to finish these prequels to the actual book, Legally Blonde. I completely recommend it to anyone who is girly and likes girly books . Goodread for sure!

[Megan]

It is about a girl who is a dork(-braces, glasses, mousy hair and baggy out of fashion clothes-) ,but she lives in beverly hills and her parents are rich and her mom a famous fashion person! Her school sucks! She is in love with the star basketball player! THe cheerleading squad and basketball squad suck so she has to make them better to hopefully get hunter to like her and take her to prom! Alot happens n this story just read it! it is good!

[Layla]

i think this book is awesome

[Felicia Moore]

VERY CUTE!!

[07KileyJ]

This book is based off of the character Elle Woods from the movie/book called Legally Blonde. It is a prequel from when Elle was a sophomore at Beverly Hills High School. In the book, she transforms the school basketball team and cheer leading squad from being horrible to being amazing. Not only that, she goes from being a mousy, shy, tomboy, to being the exact opposite. It is a cute, fun, girly, book!
I liked this book because it was fun to read and had a pretty good story. The only thing that keeps me from giving it 5 stars, is that is was pretty predictable. I really liked it, so I gave it 4 out of 5 stars.
The theme of the book is probably that is that amazing thing can happen if you can believe in yourself and have confidence.

[Zoe]

This series is amazing!! It contains 4 books, Blonde at heart, Blonde love, Vote blonde, and Beach blonde, which are all really good. It starts with mousy sophomore Elle, glasses, braces, and hair that isent blonde, isent brown, but an awkward shade in between. She falls for a senior named Hunter, who barely notices her. After a makeover, Elle helps the horrible cheerleading team, and wins Hunter over. Really exiting, NEVER any dull moments, i wanted to keep reading over and over!

[Caroline]

Although I have not actually read the real Legally Blonde book, I have seen both movies and the musical (so that should count for something, right?)
This was a cute story about a young Elle Woods, who creates a master plan to make her school basketball team better. She seemed kind of like the Elle in the movie because she was determined. This was not a classic, but i recommend it to anyone who wants to have some good clean fun!

[Swimstar101]

This series is all about a girl named Elle Woods. You may know about her adult life through the Legally Blonde movies and books, but now, u get to read all about her teenage life!!! This is a great series!!!

[Syberia]

This book is a prequel to the "Legally Blonde" Series. It's about young sophomore Elle and, how she transforms the school and, along the way she transforms herself into the Elle we all know and love. Good Preteen/Teen Read.

[♥ Nate the Great ♥ ™]

I loved this book! it was really cute because it is based on legally blonde! it is really fun and cute!

[♥Marissa♥]

This is about a tom boy, who completely turns into a girly girl over some guy. It's really awesome, and has a lot to do with school spirit.

[The Third Place A Teen Library]

F STA lew bk.1

[Angelica Zatarain]

The book was not just about the love story between Hunter and Elle, it is also about changing yourself physically and as a person not just for thyself but for the good of all. :)

[Cruse]

A lot like the movie.

[Emilie]

Elle and Hunter belong together!!!

[Kweng]

this book is just simply awesome! specially those coincidence happening.

[Matt]

There are four books in this YA adaption of the franchise. Elle Woods is a sophomore in HS and this first book is essentially her origin story. There is one character who is just the worst - Chessie. Its slightly frustrating to see Elle be so clueless as to how truly selfish and terrible of a person Chessie is, but overall this is a cute start to this series.

[Lindel Schulz]

She just wants to fit in...

[Danielle Kohs]

After picking this book up for free from my local library, I decided to give it a shot. I loved the movie and didn’t even know they made a YA series back in the day.
This book read more like a middle grade book then a YA book and was horribly written. The author made the book extremely cringey to read. Like why is the dad going around calling his preteen daughter “pussycat” 👀🤢

[Delani]

Read this book as a young girl, during my tween/ preteen phase, a decade later, and I started thinking about the series again. I loved it as a kid, and am thinking about rereading it for kicks, these and the Frog Princess series. Gotta love it.