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Summary: Awesome!
Review: A very moving book..Filled with Laughter,Love, and finding out not everyone is perfect. A real page-turner. Recommended to anyone who feels like they don't belong.Samatha Madison (Sam for short) is just an All American Girl. Being stuck in the Middle of her Family isn't always easy. Her Older Sister Lucy is popular, pretty, and everyone at school worships her. Her younger sister Rebecca, is smart, cocky, and very witty. While Sam is average,artistic, gothic-minded girl who is just looking for a place to belong. Sam has one true love. Jack, her Sister Lucys boyfriend is artistic just like her, and have many similar qualities, likes, and dislikes, Though she can never tell him how she feels. All the Emotions bottled up inside of her, waiting to explode at any given time.But her sister Lucy, has other plans. After snitching on Samantha about selling Celebrity art during German class, her caring Parents sign her up for Susan Boones Drawing class, where Susan says to draw what you "See" not what you "know"..Which leads to Sam saving the President from being shot by a Billy Joel freak who knew the song "Uptown Girl" too well. The whole world screaming her name, Sam finds herself in a new world. Her sisters, Parents, and a snobby popular girl at school are now suddenly all on her side, and Sam begins to lose thought about whats important. Then she meets David, the Presidents son who is cute, fun, and knows what Sams going through. And Sam finds herself falling in and out of love with Jack, and giving her heart away to someone who truly wants it, and wants her.
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Summary: Formula 1 Again
Review: All-American Girl was a fairly fun read. It had humor, romance, and the general angst of being a fifteen year old girl. It read quickly and provided me with some cheap, easy entertainment. The best thing about this book was all the background characters and many subplots- like when Sam has to choose the winning painting for a national contest, and when she meets Susan Boone at the art studio.
The problem is that it's so much like the books from The Princess Diaries series: something drastic changes the life of and ordinary, flat-chested girl, who has to juggle her new fame as well as the normal issues of being a teen. The main character, Sam Madison, thinks she loves one guy, then in the end discovers that someone else is meant for her. Surprise, surprise.
And the voice of the story screamed Mia Thermopolis. Both girls wallow in their own self-pity and use a confusing mixture of sophisticated and dreadful language. Meg Cabot made some clever changes when she created Sam, such as making her an artist and a middle child with somewhat normal parents-but still, Sam and Mia were a lot alike.
I'd say you should pick up this book at the library or borrow it from a friend first, and then if you see yourself re-reading it, by all means go buy it. I've read it twice, the second time for the quirky little details, like all of Sam's Top Ten lists, and my conclusion is: this book is enjoyable but nothing new.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: This book is awesome! Meg Cabot Puts an awesome amount of feeling. Sam is a girl whos life is much less than perfect. (She lives in dc) When her parents catch her selling pictures they send her to susan boones art studio for classes. They she embareses her self. Next week she skips class and she stays in the music store downstairs. Sure enough the prezadent comes and a guy who was in the music store pullz out a gun. Sam jumps him and she save the prezes life!! Now shes a hero and The prezes son might have a crush on her. This book is good fo kids 10 and up or mabye so 8&9 yr olds. A MUST READ!!
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Summary: The Best All-American Book
Review: This was the best book I have ever read. It has romance, humor, and I can relate to the characters. All-American Girl had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Now I can't wait to read Meg Cabot's other books! Samantha Madison is a sophmore at John Adams Prepatory School in Washington DC. She lives with her ever so popular cheerleading big sister, Lucy, her certified genius little sister, Rebecca, her mom and dad (who are mostly never around), and her housekeeper, Theresa. When Sam gets caught selling celebrity drawings at school, she earns a one-way ticket to Susan Boone's Art Studio for drawing lessons. There she meets this really cute guy named David (not as cute as Jack, Lucy's boyfriend. Sam secretly is in love with him). When Susan Boone criticized her for not drawing what she saw, she never wanted to go back. The next week, Sam didn't go to her art lesson, she hung out in the CD store downstairs instead. Then, when it was time for Theresa to pick her up, Sam waited by the curb like nothing was wrong. But before Theresa could get there, Sam saved the president from being assassinated and broke her wrist at the same time.From then on, she, Samantha Madison, was an international heroine. The next few weeks for her were pretty hectic. She learned that David was the son of the president (that was a big shock to her), every big news show, like Dateline and 20/20, wanted to interview her (even though she didn't think her story would last an hour), her enemies were inviting her to the parties that only the in-crowd got to go to, she was appointed teen ambassador to the UN, she was invited to dinner at the White House, and she was blackmailed by Susan to go back to her drawing lesson. And to top it all off, Lucy says that she is falling out of love with Jack and into love with David, and Sam believes it!! If all of that happened to me in one week, I would surely flip out! I highly recommend this book to any teenager or preteen that likes to read about real life. I think the lesson Sam learned in this book will be valuable to everyone.
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Summary: From good to bad, great to worse, then horrible to wonderful
Review: All-American Girl is absolutely a Must-Read! However, in this book 5'2, sophomore, teenage, and artistic girl Samantha Madsion goes through MANY changes! Like when she ditches her second art class at the Susan Boone Gallery (because of drawing in her German notebook and her mom putting her on probation to take a class of art), she actually sees the president of the United States!
The president was walking in this Cookie store with his "security guard-men", so this Billy Joel fan guy near Sam takes this gun out of his coat and then...KABLAM!!! Technically, the "Kablam!" wasn't what happened at all. Instead, Sam saves the president by making the Billy Joel fan assasssinator shoot his gun in a different direction!
Since the guy was heavy, he landed on top of Sam and she injuries her wrist. So these people come and take her to the hospital. And then Miss Samantha's life changes forever! By becoming a hero, totally popular and famous, becomes US Teen Ambassador, gets invited by her enemy's party, and even the president's son David falls in love with her!
There are some big surprises and laughs and dramatic moments in this American book too! Sam's life goes good to bad then so on.... But, I had also liked when Meg Cabot dedicated this novel to the heroes of the September 11th attack!
I was impressed, all right! So All-American Girl is one of the best Young Adult Books to get at the library or at the bookstore. It might have been really different than Cabot's Princess Diaries series, but this book was better, to be honest. I mean, she put some good things in it. Like things about art. The "listening and hearing" and the "seeing and imagining" parts was pretty creative, in fact. If you like books about love, semi-drama, laughs, surprises, and especially about America, then you'll this book.
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Summary: All American Girl
Review: Meg Cabot writes about a young rebellious teenage girl named Samantha (Sam) Madison. She lives in Washington D.C with her parents, an older sister whose boyfriend she is so in love with and with her younger sister who is very smart. At school she gets caught selling celebrity portraits. Now she has to go to an art class where she meets the presidents son but she doesn't know. She skips the class the second time that she goes. She saves the president's life when some guy tries to shoot him. Now she gets to be the teen ambassador to the UN. She finds out that the cute guy she met in art class is the presidents's son and he has a crush on her. She judges an art contest where her sister's boyfriend expects to win. She figure's out that she likes the president's son. When she does they get together. She is happy to have found out who she really is.
I liked that the book was about someone who is an ordinary person. The only thing I didn't like was that the book was hard to believe because she jumped the guy about to shoot the president. She is much smaller than him so how did she really sop him. I would recommend this book to other people because it is a fun filled adventure that was fun to read. The dialouge was believeable because Sam talked like a regular kid.
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Summary: All-American Girl
Review: If you have enjoyed the Princess Diaries books you will like this one too. Written by Meg Cabot, Samantha is an average girl with a popular older sister and a nerdy younger sister. All is going ok until one day she skips art class and is waiting for a ride home from her nanny and she sees a man pull out a gun........ This is where I am leaving off so, you need to read the book to find out all the details. I really enjoyed this book and I'm sure you will too.
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Summary: All American Girl is one of the BEST books I have read!
Review: Samantha Madison is a 15-year old red haired rebel. She is a middle child squeezed between her perfect, popular, cheerleading older sister, Lucy and her 11-year old overly intelligent sister, Rebecca. When Sam's grade starts to drop in one class and her parents find out she is drawing and selling portraits of her classmates with celebrities she is in deep trouble. Her parents arrange for her to go to Susan Boone's art studio so she can draw during that time, but Sam is embarrassed on the first day and decides to ditch the next lesson. What Sam doesn't know is her life is about to change dramatically. While standing on the corner waiting for her ride home, Sam somehow ends up preventing an attempt of assassination of the President. This is HUGE. How will her dull life change? Will it be for better or for worse? Meg Cabot did an excellent job writing this book! At the end of many chapters sam writes a list containing 10 points. For example:Top ten things not to do at a press conference and Top ten reasons I would make a better girl-friend for Jack than my sister Lucy. I would recommend this book to teen girls who enjoy fairy tale like books. This novel is fun, joyful and has realistic set and plot. The book is filled with teen love, teen issues and makes you want to never put the fun filled book down!
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Summary: PROBABLY MY FAVORITE BOOK
Review: All-American Girl by Meg Cabot is probably one of the best books I have ever read before. It's about a girl who has a passion for art and her sister's boyfriend. As she struggles with her new art lessons, Sam decides to skip class one day and hang out at the record store near Capitol Cookies. As she steps out and waits for her house keeper to pick her up, Sam sees a man pull out a gun and aim it at the President as he enters Capitol Cookies. She saves the President's life by jumping on the assassin. Sam is later a national hero and as her family build a close relationship with the first family, she thinks she may be falling in love with David, the First Son. This is an intermediate read and I encourage teenage girls to read this book. It deserves five stars!
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Summary: Sam broke her arm but became a national hero!
Review: This book is about a girl named Samantha (Sam) Madison. Like most other heroines in Meg Cabot's books, Sam has something unusual and bizarre happen to her, something which happens to be a blessing in disguise. Sam saves the president of the United States from assassination by jumping on the back of the attacker. She ends up breaking her arm, but saving the life of the leader of the free world. I liked Sam's character. Sam's something of an urban rebel slash sensitive artist slash middle-child reject (her words, not mine). She dresses all in black, as she is in mourning for her generation. But I've got to say, Sam was a pretty believably character. I found her quirks really entertaining (like she's a picky eater and blushes practically all the time, being a redhead.) Overall, I give this book five stars, because it was just a whole lot of fun! :)
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