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Cute Is A Four-Letter Word By Stella Pevsner

Posted on February 10, 2020 by

You are about to witness… The Year of the Clara! I wasn’t very impressed by Stella Pevsner’s Call Me Heller, That’s My Name, a pretty generic coming of age story about a tomboy becoming a young lady in the roaring … Continue reading →

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Project Boyfriend By Stephanie St. Pierre

Posted on May 11, 2017 by

Can Stacey capture Max’s heart, or is her downhill romance destined for a crash landing? This one came out in 1991, fairly late in the run of Bantam’s Sweet Dreams romance imprint, which I didn’t notice until I sat down … Continue reading →

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The Plot Against The Pom-Pom Queen By Ellen Leroe

Posted on May 13, 2016 by

Then Kelsey discovers Magical Male Grabbers… So, giving a plot overview for this one is going to make it sound so generic that I can’t imagine why anyone would bother even reading the summary: a late bloomer and former-fatty undergoes … Continue reading →

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Two By Two Romance #11: A Kiss For Good Luck By Carol Ellis

Posted on February 5, 2016 by

Tess tells you how she feels about her new romance. And when you flip the book over you find out in Charlie’s own words what a boy thinks about it all.  I have said it before: I can’t resist a YA … Continue reading →

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Keeping Score By Marilyn Levy

Posted on August 6, 2015 by

What’s worse: that your boyfriend is interested in your sister, or that he’s dealing drugs out of his locker? This book may have the honor of “cover copy least-related to actual plot” in recent memory: far from dealing with just … Continue reading →

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The Girl Scouts’ Rivals (#5) By Edith Lavell

Posted on June 25, 2014 by

“The jury finds the defendant guilty of breaking the first five Girl Scout laws and recommends her dismissal from the organization!” Background: Fictional series about Girl Scouting date back nearly to the organization’s founding in 1912; by the 1920s the sub-genre … Continue reading →

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Summer Break By Victoria M. Althoff

Posted on June 11, 2014 by

This summer would be it! Summer break! Time to get LAZY! Watching MTV 9 hours a day-lazy! (How many times will they play the video for Madonna’s “Material Girl”? Exactly 27 times!) Oh, wait. Not so lazy that you use … Continue reading →

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