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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  mzonderm | Oct 2, 2009 |  Mara Valentine is in her senior year of high school and is running neck and neck with one other student to be valedictorian of her class. When her teenage niece, Vi, comes to live with her family, Mara is expected to be a mentor and friend to her. But they are so different! Vi smokes, doesn't attend class, makes out with anyone who is willing and is totally indifferent to Mara and her family. As the year progresses, Mara falls in love with an "older man" and begins to learn that there is more to life than academics and that maybe Vi isn't so bad after all. This is an easy read, kind of a "year in the life" of a teenager. There are no real surprises; it's pretty predictable, but enjoyable nonetheless. (  ) lrobe190 | Jul 16, 2009 | Twitter review @book_kungfu (http://twitter.com/book_kungfu): Control freak learns to let go, loosen up and give in to cheesy dreams. Because bveing vegan isn't good, right? >_ (  ) kikilon | Apr 29, 2009 | Student Review: What I liked about this book was the characters, how they acted, and how this book is so much like real life. Mara and V were not very close to one another. The ending was very sweet, and everyone worked out a lot of problems. This is a book that is very interesting and very hard to put down. You will just want to keep reading and reading. 1  ihs_library | Mar 4, 2009 | Booklist, 6/1/2004-6/15/2004, Vol. 100 Issue 19/20, p1720-1720 (  ) VibrantLibrarian | Feb 12, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0763621552, Hardcover)From the author of the award-winning THE EARTH, MY BUTT, AND OTHER BIG ROUND THINGS comes the racy story of an overachiever who learns to get over it — and get a life.Mara Valentine is in control. She's a straight-A senior, a vegan, and her parents' pride and joy. She's neck-and-neck with her womanizing ex-boyfriend for number-one class ranking and plans to kick his salutatorian butt on her way out the door to Yale. Mara has her remaining months in Brockport all planned out, but the plan does not include having V, her slutty, pot-smoking, sixteen-year-old niece — yes, niece — come to live with her family. Nor does it involve lusting after her boss or dreaming about grilled cheese sandwiches every night. What does a control freak like Mara do when things start spinning wildly out of control? With insight, authenticity, and a healthy dose of humor, Carolyn Mackler creates an evolving Type A heroine that every reader will recognize — and root for. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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My response: Honestly, I didn't much notice the word that the parents were complaining about. I had a much bigger problem with the names the girls in the book call each other, but obviously, not a big enough problem to think that I had the right to control what other people can or can't read.
Overall, I think this book might have been too subtle for me. Mara and V don't get along, can't stand each other, etc. until suddenly they can. I felt like there was a little bit of character development that I missed. Otherwise, this is a good story about how the "good girl" can have a positive influence on the "bad girl" and (more importantly?) vice versa, without being too heavy-handed. (