How I Changed My Life

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Summary: How i Changed My Life
Review: "Don't try to be who you're not." One of Todd Strassers characters in the book How I Changed My Life, a ficion book, states this quote. This quotation is what the book is motsly about. This book shows high-school students trying to find who they really are. "A good actor becomes the character he's playing."
A high-school boy named Kyle Winthrop injured his knee and can no longer play football and be with his "team". He decides to audition for the school play , against the advice of his girlfriend, Chloe, whom herself is a ver good actress. Bo is the stage manager for this play and sees Kyle as a major hunk ad she has a crush on him. Chloe and Kyle seem to be growing closer to each other. As Bo spends more time with Kyle, she wants to work on her self-image, losing weight and becoming more assertive. "And if you hate your name, change it.: This concludes, if you don't like who you're becomimg to grow as a person, you can always change yourself to who you want to be.

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Summary: How I Changed My Life
Review: "Dont try to be who you're not." One of Todd Strassers characters in the book How I Changed My Life, a fiction book, states this quote. This quotation is what the book is mostly about. This book shows high-school students trying to find who they really are." A good actor becomes the character he's playing."
A high-school boy named Kyle Winthrop injured his knee and can no longer play football and be with his "team". He decides to audition for the school play, against the advice of his girlfriend, Chloe, whom herself is a very good actress. Bo is the stage manager for this play and sees Kyle as a major hunk and she has a crush on him. Chloe and Kyle seem to be growing closer to each other. As Bo spends more time with Kyle, she wants to work on her self-image, losing wight and becoming more assertive. "And if you hate your name, change it." This concludes, if you don't like who you're becoming to grow as a person, you can always change yourself to who you want to be.

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Summary: No matter what, don't give up!
Review: Have you ever wanted to become someone you weren't to attract someone of the opposite sex. In this story the main character, "Bo Vine",is willing to change her whole life for a guy.

The author, Todd Strasser, has written many great works including Friends to the End, The Wave, and Rock'n'Roll Nights.

Bo Vine decides she has a crush on a football player and thinks the same old Bo just isn't going to be enough for him. So, she changes her hair, buys new clothes, starts to lose weight, and tries out for stage manager of the schools production of Anne Frank when Kyle decides to join. Only there's one problem. Chloe, Kyle's girlfriend who has to be perfect at everything. Bo's friend's say she's going to get herself into troble if she keeps taking chances but Bo just won't see the danger. Read this fantastic book to find out what happens!

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Summary: A really good book
Review: I thought this book was really good. It was exciting and I could hardly put it down. Bo is a drama club girl who spends most of her time there and she loves doing it. Then Kyle the captin of the football team who has a knee injury and decides to join the drama club. Kyles girlfriend Chloe got the lead part in the play and Kyle and Bo both start competting against her. Bo has always liked Kyle and when he joined the Drama club she dicided to change her image to attract attention, First she loses a few pounds and then puts on some makeup and does her hair. She is finally getting some attention from people. If you want to know how the book ends, then read it. It is very good, especially for teenagers.

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Summary: pretty good
Review: If you are in High School, then here is a book you might life. It's called How I Changed My Life. The school play is going to be The Diary of Anne Frank.

In the book, Klye Winthrop is a football player, but quits when he suffers an injury. Klye's mom is dead, and his father re-married a woman named Jackie.

Klye has a half-brother. Who is a baby. His name is Jake. But Klye's nickname for Jake is "IT." Against the advice of his girlfirend, Klye decides to act in the school play. His girlfriend name is Chole Frost.

She will play Anne Frank. There is a girl named Bolita Vina (Bo), who talks Klye into doing the play. One Day a guy sells pizza in the boy's bathroom, to get his girlfriend a present. But ends up in jail for it. If you are in High School, then this is a book that you might like.

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Summary: I agree...
Review: If you like to actually read something that isn't retarded you should read this book. This book tells in detail the different point of views that people can have. It shows how what something means to you may not mean the same thing to another person. It also shows how hectic a life in highschool can be. It also tells us how confusing realationships can be.

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Summary: John Hughes for the '90s
Review: Like the famous godfather of teen movies, John Hughes, Todd Strasser has captured what it's like to be a teenager in the 1990s (opposed to the '80s) with problems surrounded by the cliquey teen caste system. In this book, Todd Strasser introduces his first of the Time Zone High trilogy (opposed to John Hughes's Shermer High quartet), with the chubby and drama queen, Bolita "Bo" Vine and the handsome and injured Kyle Winthrop. Bo and Kyle are from opposite ends of the social pool. Bo is a smart, calm misfit who most likely be with the rebels and weirdos, while Kyle is a brave, hunky jock, who's knee is injured, and who is most likely invited to all the good parties by the rich and popualr students.

The action starts there.

The fall play is starting and Bo is, as usual, the stage manager, although she'd rather be center stage. Pretty shadowed, she hides with her Gothy bud and her artist-cute friend on the catwalk in the auditorium. Bo is tired of being the way she is--when she finds out Kyle is what she wants. Kyle is tired of sitting out, watching the games and being his pretty, smart and popular girlfriend, Chloe Frost's little puppet, not doing what he wants. So he does something rebellous--he signs up for the school play.

Bo and Kyle clash a lot while she babysits his half-brother, and they both go swimming--she to work out, him to get away and exercise his legs. When Bo changes her entire look from a drab, sulky look to a pretty, gorgeous look, she tries to win Kyle over, but it's not that easy. Kyle still has major feelings for Chloe, even if she is a real ... and she's always being the lead in the plays. Bo is lovestruck.

This book is a typical, but comedic, story about high school love from different social stratesphere. It cycles the life of two teens, who are different but have the same problems. It's a cross between Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles--but the outcome is not going to be so fair. Read this. It's amazing. It's like the John Hughes movies-turned-books.