Girls in Love

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Summary: What an excellent book!
Review: 'Girls in love' is a great book perfect for when you've recently been dumped!!! I loved the book especially as I've just started high school so I virtually know what teenage life is like! I think that this book is perfect. I can't wait till I can read 'Girls Under Pressure!'

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Summary: Great Girls Book
Review: An enthralling story of three girls, this hilarious novel by Jacqueline Wilson focuses on the finer points of teenage life in present day England. Told through the eyes of a fourteen year old girl, the reader gets an inside look at her thoughts. A talented artist, Ellie, the narrator, talks mostly about her two best friends. One of them is Magda, a striking blonde full of self-confidence, who is boy-crazy and fun loving but sometimes oblivious to serious situations. Another friend is Nadine, a thin, gothic kind of girl who is cynical but also good natured and at times, quite gullible. All these talents and faults of three girls make "GIRLS in love" one great read. I throughly enjoyed the way the author went into interesting detail and the found the humor in every situation. It cleary paints a picture for the reader about what goes on in these girl's everyday lives and what Ellie's thoughts are about everything they go through. Once I began reading, I could not put this book down. Unexpected events happen to the girls, such as Nadine meeting a mystery boy who turns out to be a total jerk, and Magda meeting her usual slew of boys who are all different from one another. As the book begins, Ellie is on her annual torturous family vacation, where she meets a complete nerd boy who falls for her immediately. He later visits her at her home, which takes the book in a whole new direction. I was impressed with the way Jacqueline Wilson described the fast paced emotions that go through a girl's head on a daily basis. I would recommend this book to mainly girls, unless there are boys who are interested in learning about a girl's mind. Anyone who reads this book is in for a great laugh and an excellent story.

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Summary: I LOVE It
Review: Ellie is your normal 13-year-old. She fusses over the things 9th grade girls fuss over, such as their hair, clothes, weight, friends, and boyfriends. But when her best friend Nadine tells her and Magda she has a 17-year-old boyfriend, Ellie gets herself caught in a lie. Now she's pretending that she has a boyfriend to impress her friends. Between that, parties, sex, boyfriends, clubs, and drugs. Ellie is going to be having a tough year.

This is a wonderful book, that truly captures how teen girls feel today. I recommend this book to any fans of "Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging" and "The Princess Diaries".

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Summary: Hmmmm.....
Review: For some reason, I didn't like this book as much as I thought that I would. All of my friends had been telling me to read, so I did, but it wasn't very enjoyable.

It centers around a girl named Ellie, who is having problems with entering into her teenage years, problems which include having an undesirable boy chase after her and having crushes on unattainable older guys.

When her best friend gets a boy friend, she makes up one of her own, and eventually has to come clean.

But, to all the British kids out there- does all the stuff that's mentioned in the book ACTUALLY happen when you're thirteen in the UK?

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Girls in Love is an awesome introduction into the world of these three characters. Ellie, Magda and Nadine. They are all freshmans in highschool, and all...dateless. Until one day, Nadine confesses to having a boyfriend. Ellie (main character) starts a lie that goes way to far. Farther than she wanted it to go. She didn't want to seem like an out cast. How far did it go? And did Ellie confess it was all a lie? Read this book to find out! I recomend this book because it tells about true love, and how you shouldn't have low-self esteem. One of the characters gets used by an older boy and doesn't realize it until the end...when her friends come to the rescue!

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Summary: I'm Falling In Love With GIRLS IN LOVE
Review: Have you ever had to deal with friend problems, guy problems, family problems, jealousy, lies, imperfection, and all the other obstacles of growing up? If you have then your not alone!
Ellie Allard is 14 years old and has never had a proper boyfriend. Her best friends Magda and Nadine, are pretty, popular, and are always braggging about their latest boyfriends. Its never bothered her before, but this year she decides to do something about it. She tries going on a diet, getting a glamorous new haircut, and buying a more sophistacated wardrobe but still the only guy she can attract is a nerdy, goofy kid named Dan. Dan lives a few hours away and is always sending Ellie these dorky love letters. At first Ellie just gets annoyed, but then she decides to pretend that Dan is her boyfriend to impress Magda and Nadine, but the Dan she pretends is her boyfriend is nothing like the real Dan at all because the pretend Dan is tall, athletic, nice, cute, and funny. So what would happen if Magda and Nadene found out? Would they not want to be her friend anymore? This book should be read by teenage girls everywhere. I could totally relate to Girls in Love. It was almost like the author was writing about my friends and me in certain parts of the book. Once I started Girls in Love I could not put it down, and I'm sure you would do the same.

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Summary: Teens Like You
Review: Have you ever had to deal with friend problems, guy problems, family problems, jealousy, lies, imperfection, and all the other obstacles of growing up? If you have then your not alone!
Ellie Allard is 14 years old and has never had a proper boyfriend. Her best friends Magda and Nadine, are pretty, popular, and are always braggging about their latest boyfriends. Its never bothered her before, but this year she decides to do something about it. She tries going on a diet, getting a glamorous new haircut, and buying a more sophistacated wardrobe but still the only guy she can attract is a nerdy, goofy kid named Dan. Dan lives a few hours away and is always sending Ellie these dorky love letters. At first Ellie just gets annoyed, but then she decides to pretend that Dan is her boyfriend to impress Magda and Nadine, but the Dan she pretends is her boyfriend is nothing like the real Dan at all because the pretend Dan is tall, athletic, nice, cute, and funny. So what would happen if Magda and Nadene found out? Would they not want to be her friend anymore? This book should be read by teenage girls everywhere. I could totally relate to Girls in Love. It was almost like the author was writing about my friends and me in certain parts of the book. Once I started Girls in Love I could not put it down, and I'm sure you would do the same.

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Summary: Ok
Review: I really thought this bookbut it sort of ran out of OMPH in the middle. Basically it is exactly like all those other teen books. I would recommend it to middle schoolers its great

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Summary: Mmm, maybe....!
Review: Jaqueleine Wilson is fantastic. There's never been any question about that in my mind. And I'd also like to note that I'm a staunch believer in children's books not being censored. However, even my liberal mind was a little surprised. Most of the books scenes are fine and what I would expect from this excellent author. A parents death, irritating siblings, worries about the opposite sex are what I would expect for girls aged thirteen (the ages of the three heroines) But a couple of places in the book did surprise me somewhat. When one of the girls, Nadine, meets Liam, all three thirteen yea olds go to a nightclub where they are offered drugs (E's and whizz, in Magda's words) and Nadine even takes some "to relax her" to enable her to sleep with Liam (she doesn't.) I fully realise that, sadly, this is a world many thirteen year olds live in, but by writing about it this implies that it is normal. I do think if Wilson's heroines had been, say, sixteen, I would have been far more happy with it. Had I read this book at thirteen, I do wonder if I would have belived clubbing, sex, drugs and parties to be the morn in my age group. Hopefully not. But possibly some thirteen year old somewhere, might. The main reason WIlson's books are applauded is that they are realistic. I would reccomend any parent giving this book to a child to chat with them first and assure them that what the girls in the story do is not by any means what their peers do.

These scenes aside then, this book is excellent. The girls are realistic and strangely likeable. All in all it is a good story but unlike many of Wilson's other books, that is all it is. I did not pick up on any undercurrents of concern here. Give it t your child by all means and read it yourself - just be prepared for "But in this book.." comments!