7th May 2015, Egmont, 352 pages, Ebook, Review copy (NetGalley)
Content: humour, mild teen romance,
Book summary
Everybody wants to be a famous It Girl. Don't they?
Anna Huntley's aims in life:
1) Must keep my two lovely new (and only) school friends by not doing
anything in usual manner of socially inept dork and outcast.
2) Train Dog (my labrador) to high-five. This is probably the most ambitious life goal on this list.
3) Do not set the school's Deputy Queen Bee mean girl's hair on fire (again).
4) Work out whether 2) and 3) constitute being socially inept or outcastish.
5) Go to Africa and give out rice.
6) To hide in a cupboard FOR LIFE with Dog now Dad is engaged to one
of the most famous actresses EVER, the paparazzi want to spash my face all over the papers and everyone in school (and The World) is soon to discover the level of my social ineptitude.
7) Is rice a bit done now? Maybe I can give out chocolate in Africa
too. I do like chocolate. Must work out how to do it from the
cupboard...
Nayu's thoughts
Need
100+ smiles? Read this book which will have you smiling almost on
every page. There were moments when Anna's dilemma made me feel sorry
for her because she got in tough situations which were occasionally
not her fault, but on there whole there is humour on every page, even
when she is waving a 'trouble' sign above her head (she doesn't
actually do this, but you can so see it happening). I hadn't expected
her IT girl experience to go the way it did.
I confess the grade is
because I wasn't all that keen on the cover, the story itself is
immensely realistic in the melodrama which teens have a tendency to
suffer from which annoys me a smidge and amuses me a lot. Hence the
100+ smiles. The story twists took me a bit by surprise, which I
always enjoy in a book. The places where animosity was put on hold
and sometimes altogether eliminated from Anna and her potential
step-sister had me reaching for a tissue, the rest made me want to
bash said step-sister on the head for not giving Anna a chance. A definite reread!
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