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Summary: Read THE GIRLS
Review: Since I am 18 yrs old, this book was a little bit young for me but it won more than one award so I decided that it was worth my time. The book shows the members of a clique from each individuals perspective. The book is a little bit juvinile but it shows the troubles that preteens face- divorce, the want for acceptance and watching their parents age.
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Summary: The Girls
Review: The book I read was The Girls. It was about five girls who do everything together. The book shows all of the point of view form each girl so you get a different perspective from everyone. The girl's names are Renee, Nicole, Brianna, Darcy, Candace, and Maya. Candace was the popular girl in school and Darcy pretty much worships her. Everyone wants become Candace. Brianna was the shy one. One day one of the girls has a party; she invites everyone except for Maya. At the party they all make up nicknames for each other. Maya finds out about it and is very confused why they didn't invite her. At the party all of the girls start to talk about Maya saying bad things about her. Then they all decide to make prank phone calls to her. Maya gets really upset. The only people that still like Maya are Brianna and Renee. Later Candace meets Nicole and she becomes all of their friends. None of the other girls want to be friends with Candace any more because she is so mean and greedy. Then Maya becomes friends with all of them (except for Candace). Maya also meets a new friend while everyone else is ignoring her. I really enjoyed this book a lot. I love how this book was so descriptive. I would give this book five stars because it is a very fun and exciting book. It was very fun to hear from each of the girl's different perspectives in how the other girls acted. I would recommend this to all girls out there that enjoy a good book. It was one of those books that you just keep on wanting to read and one of those that you can not put down for a second. I am really glad I read this book and I think you will to.
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Summary: The Girls
Review: The Girls
Amy Goldman Koss
Maya's life was going great when she moved into town and became friends with the most popular girl in school named Candace. That would change after one night during the end of summer break. Maya isn't invited to Darcy's sleepover because Candace considered her boring now. It's time for Renee and Brianna to make their own choice on whether they were going to be Maya's friend or just follow the leader of their group, Candace.
This was a book that can really relate to real life problems people go through. It's about making your own decision, not follow someone else's, and learning how to stand up for what you truly believe in.
I would really recommend this book to people of the ages of 11-14. I got caught up in this book the more I read it. I personally would rate this book a 4 with 5 being the highest.
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Summary: The Girls
Review: The Girls Puffin Books, 2000, 121 pp., $4.99
Amy Goldman Koss ISBN 0-14-230033-0 Could you put yourself in the position where all of a sudden, your closest friends begin teasing and taunting you? Well, that's the position that Maya is in when friends Renée, Brianna, and Darcy turn on her, and she can't figure out why. Then popular, intimidating Candace calls her and says some awful things, and suddenly it becomes crystal clear: the other girls don't like her because of Candace; if they did stay Maya's friend after Candace began to dislike her, they would be out of Candace's clique. The book The Girls shows how hard it is to be left out, mocked, and how to get back on your feet.
I really loved this book because I felt as though I could instantly connect with Maya. She has the same problems every middle school girl has, and Amy Goldman Koss describes her emotions very well. The writer's craft was unique; with each new chapter, a different girl would narrate the story and the "Maya problem" as she saw it through her own eyes.
The book The Girls was addictive. I enjoyed reading the different perspectives that each individual girl had on the problems going on within their clique. Once I picked it up, I just couldn't put it down!
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Summary: The Girls
Review: The Girls
Amy Goldman Koss
Maya's life was going great when she moved into town and became friends with the most popular girl in school named Candace. That would change after one night during the end of summer break. Maya isn't invited to Darcy's sleepover because Candace considered her boring now. It's time for Renee and Brianna to make their own choice on whether they were going to be Maya's friend or just follow the leader of their group, Candace.
This was a book that can really relate to real life problems people go through. It's about making your own decision, not follow someone else's, and learning how to stand up for what you truly believe in.
I would really recommend this book to people of the ages of 11-14. I got caught up in this book the more I read it. I personally would rate this book a 4 with 5 being the highest.
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Summary: The Girls
Review: The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss is a book that all middle school girls should read. It's about a group of five girls named Brianna, Renee, Maya, Darcy, and Candace. Candace was the center of the group and was snobby and bossy. She kicked Maya out of the group even though she was the one who brought her in. Candace and Darcy began kicking Brianna out of the group because they suddenly didn't like her anymore. In the end, Maya, Renee, and Brianna, stayed out of the group, but they still are really good friends. I really enjoyed this book. It shows how some girls are mean to each other. I learned that friends that are nice to you sometimes turn around and go against you. They are not true friends. For instance, Darcy always does what Candace wants her to do. She does this because she doesn't have friends otherwise. She needs to start realizing who her real friends are and stop being a follower. My favorite part in this book is when Renee and Briana begin talking to Maya. They were being friendly and ate lunch together. Even though Candace and Darcy hated Maya, Brianna and Renee didn't. They thought that being mean to someone was not right. Maya didn't do anything to hurt their feelings in any way.
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Summary: The Girls
Review: The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss was an okay story about 5 teenage girls that have a problem in their friendship. I can relate to each of the main characters, Maya, Renee, Darcy, Candace, and Brianna, at certian times, but what they go through isn't every interesting. I wouldn't recomend this book because you would probably get bored with it quickly. I would only read this book if i was assigned to to it, and probably wouldn't enjoy it.
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Summary: This book has no plot!
Review: The Girls consist of Maya, Renee, Candace, and Brianna. All of a sudden the 4 girls decided not to be friends with Maya, leaving her to wonder why they don't like her anymore.
The book wasn't very detailed. It didn't even tell where it took place. It was hard for me to stay focused because I kept forgetting who the characters were or getting them mixed up, and not knowing who did what in the book. Personally, there were just too many girls to keep track of.
However, I think a lot of girls can relate to it or atleast understand the concept. It wasn't horrible. I don't think I would recommend it to anyone just young girls like my neice because she is 13 and going in to middle school. Younger girls would maybe like it more.
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Summary: The Girls Review
Review: The Girls consist of Maya, Renee, Candace, and Brianna. All of a sudden the 4 girls decided not to be friends with Maya, leaving her to wonder why they don't like her anymore.
The book wasn't very detailed. It didn't even tell where it took place. It was hard for me to stay focused because I kept forgetting who the characters were or getting them mixed up, and not knowing who did what in the book. Personally, there were just too many girls to keep track of.
However, I think a lot of girls can relate to it or atleast understand the concept. It wasn't horrible. I don't think I would recommend it to anyone just young girls like my neice because she is 13 and going in to middle school. Younger girls would maybe like it more.
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Summary: The Girls review
Review: The girls is a great book about something that could really happen and does happen between groups in everyday life. The whole book is from different points of views from the five different girls in the group. I read the book in one day because I couldnt put it down , its deffenetly a page turner. Everyone I talked to really liked it. It shows how mean girls can be and how stupid they can get over a bad friend.I loved this book and I would deffinetly recomend this book to you.
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