Honey, Baby, Sweetheart (2004)

by Deb Caletti

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Not a good read or inspiring for young girls. A timid girl meets a bad boy and their relationship begins and ends with no feeling whatsoever. The mother is of no use and the book club they both frequent can put anyone to sleep. I have no idea how this won an award. (

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kmunsey | Apr 8, 2013 |

a sixteen year old girl, Ruby mcqueen meets this most handsome guy on a mottorcylce.. She later soon figuers out he just got out of jail, and got kicked out of school. She thinks shes way out of her head even likeing him! She keeps her head up and keeps walking. later in the book she ends up dating that boy! her mother finds out, and drags her to the most boring book club ever. But her mother feels like she should just let tuby go back to the boy, and soon hoefully it will end. But it dosent and the mother doesnt care anymore. Thats the funny part of the book. (

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yasemin.ykar8298 | Mar 27, 2012 |

In short, this book has an amazing Sarah Dessen like quality to it. You were instantly drawn to the bad a** Travis Becker, even though you knew the romance was scary and maybe dangerous. But you didn't love only him, but also the Casserole Queens. After all, old people are endearing AND crazy! And Caletti made these ones spunky! I especially loved Harold, the fact that he was in an all girl book club, and his childish pranks. But I also loved Caletti's writing overall. Her stories within the story were inspirational, and not in that cheesy self help way. I also loved the plot, I AM a real sucker for a road trip! Overall, five stars all around. (

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amwo | Jul 30, 2011 |

really enjoyed the tone of the book and the message of it w/out it being too preachy. (

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pru-lennon | Jan 31, 2011 |

Chock-full of figurative language, at times, this book felt almost like a poem. The plot was a bit lacking, but the flowing similes and metaphors help. (

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Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

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2004

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National Book Award finalist (Young People's Literature, 2004)

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year (2004)

Book Sense Summer Pick Teen Readers (2004)

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (2005)

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For Sam & Nick.
You are the joy and the meaning.

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The first thing I learned about Travis Becker was that he parked his motorcycle on the front lawn.

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"Just remember that high school is a big game where the blond, perfect ones sit on the sideline while everyone else crosses a mine field trying not to look stupid. In the real world, this all reverses."

I hate P.E., as you know. I think it qualifies as one of those cruel and unusual punishments we are supposed to be protected from in our constitution.

I hate that. I hate when people use honesty as a cover for cruelty. You take a moral word like 'honest', stick it next to something mean, and you can almost make an insult sound righteous. And if we're sensitive, we believe those insults. We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth.

Sometimes we are so convinced that someone is throwing us a life preserver that we don't notice that what they are actually doing is drowning us.

'Keep in mind this,' Peach shook her finger at me. 'If an old person is sweet, they've probably always been sweet. If they are wise, they were probably always smart. Nobody changes that much.'

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It is summer in the Northwest town of Nine Mile Falls, and sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen, ordinarily dubbed The Quiet Girl, finds herself hanging out with gorgeous, rich, thrill-seeking Travis Becker. But Ruby is in over her head, and finds she is risking more and more when she’s with him. In an effort to keep Ruby occupied, Ruby’s mother, Ann, drags Ruby to the weekly book club she runs. When it is discovered that one of the group’s own members is the subject of the tragic love story they are reading, Ann and Ruby spearhead a reunion between the long-ago lovers. But for Ruby, this mission turns out to be much more than just a road trip. . . .

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In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love, and in the process, learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another.… (more)

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