Showing posts with label July book of the month; Take a Chance Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July book of the month; Take a Chance Challenge. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
July Book Review: Take a Chance Challenge
I'm taking part in Jenners book challenge. I have to admit that I was a little skeptical of this one:
Imagine my dismay when the word generated for me was SLOPPY. Seriously. SLOPPY. My hopes for this book were crushed like a Danimals Crush Cup. My only hope was that when I put this word into the search engine at the library nothing, absolutely nothing, would come up.
This came up:
Go to a random word generator and generate a random word. Find a book with this word in the title. Read the book and write about it.
Okay...it doesn't look so bad, I thought, I'll give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. In fact, it is the first book of a series of books and I am actually looking forward to finding out what happens to Jessica Darling.
When Jess's best friend Hope moves away she has to decide how she will handle high school without her. Should she become a member of the "Clueless Crew"; should she date Scotty and make her mom happy. Why is she drawn to the class bad boy, Marcus Flutie? Will she ever escape the shadow of her perfect sister and her dead brother? Can her father see her for who she really is and not just the star athlete he's always wanted her to be?
A pleasantly entertaining book. I was able to related to the main character as well as the mother in the story. Well worth the read.
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