This book is about a girl named Maggie who lives with her parents. They are hippies who like to move around alot. They never stay in one place for more than a couple of months. Just when she made friends got a boyfriend named Trevor and setteled in her parents decide to move. Of course she is hurt and heart broken, so when they move to Austin she decides to rebel and tries her hardest not to be popular.

Sugar Magnolia Dempsey moves around a lot - every few months, in fact - when her free-spirited parents decide to embrace someplace new. But when she must move her senior year and leave boyfriend Trevor behind she decides the pain of leaving has become too much. To combat any potential future pain, she sets out to remain as unpopular as possible in Austin. But her plan goes awry when the "losers" she befriends turn out to be the best friends she's ever had. A little bit like an older teen's Stargirl, but still thoroughly enjoyable. Recommended. ( )

Sugar Magnolia Dempsey (Maggie) is used to changing schools—her parents move around so much she’s never been in the same place for more than a few months. But the move from Portland to Austin is the last straw. Just when she made some new friends and had a boyfriend, her parents drag her away. Now her heart is broken, so she swears not to make any friends or get involved with any guys in Austin because sooner or later they’ll move again. So she tries her
hardest not to be popular, but her plan ends up backfiring. ( )

Booklist, 4/1/2008, Vol. 104 Issue 15, p40

Summary: Maggie is in her senior year of high school, and her hippie parents are moving the family. Again. It hurts too much to say goodbye, so what would happen if in their new town, she tried to not make friends?

Review: I probably should have stopped reading this after 50 pages because I didn’t really like it.

Things that bothered me:

* Too much internal dialogue. It’s boring when the main character just comes out and tells you her emotions all the time.
* Ending fizzled. The only thing that kept me reading was the budding relationship between Maggie and Jack. And then the ending wasn’t even satisfying in that department.
* Dialogue attributions that got on my nerves. Don’t tell me you “reply truthfully.” I should be able to tell whether you’re lying. On second thought, don’t even tell me you “reply”! I know I’m being petty. But as long as I am…
* Crap everywhere. Maggie likes to say “crap” a lot—the first two words of the book are “Oh crap.” That’s fine. I am not a stranger to the 4-letter word. But she comes up with these variations on “crap” that I guess are supposed to be funny but just struck me as dumb. I mean, “Crap burger!” and “Crap-a-roni!”? Really? ( )