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Summary: Well written and very enjoyable
Review: I thought All-American Girl was a very good book,very close to being as good as the Princess Diaries series. The story has hints of the same concepts like, being famous and really liking someone that you think you should have, but utterly different in many other ways. I think this book is very enjoyable and sweet, and I think will be a well loved book.
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Summary: All in all, a great book!
Review: There have been a few attempts at the president's life before. It happens. But what happens if you are there when it happens, and then decide to take out the assassin before he hits the president? Well a lot of things. First of all you get your arm broken. Second, you become an instant hero. Third, you get invited to the president's house for dinner and become "teen ambassador to the UN". Lastly, you find out that the cute boy in your art class happens to be the president's son. All of this happens to fortunate, (or unfortunate) Samantha Madison in All-American Girl.I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I had to put it down every few pages and go downstairs to pace myself, only to come back up a minute later. I couldn't exactly relate to Sam, (since I've never saved the Presidents life before, let alone seen the President in real life color) by I enjoyed looking at her story as an on looker. The only thing was that it was a bit like The Princess Diaries series (also by Meg Cabot) (which I also enjoyed), but it was unique enough that although I noticed it, I didn't care. All in all, a great book!
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Summary: Sweet and silly
Review: It's Meg Cabot's usual schtick: Samantha Madison is a gawky teen who suddenly finds herself in a unique situation, this time as the savior of the president! Like Mia in The Princess Diaries, Gwen Stefani-loving Sam has to deal with the perils of her new-found popularity- juggling the needs of old friends, the demands of new friends, and her own mixed emotions about a romantic prospect. Sure, it's a formula, but Meg Cabot rises above it with her sensitive portrayals of believable teens in unbelievable situations. Although similar to Mia in voice, Sam is a very slightly edgier character: a budding artist and a would-be rebel who dyes her entire wardrobe black. Sam's family is lovingly drawn; they don't always understand each other, but they do love each other. A comic plus is Sam's crush, Jack, another wannabe artist/rebel who only paints "disaffected youths."
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Summary: I Loved It!
Review: This book most certainly deserves 5 stars! Samantha Madison jumps a would-be assin and manages to save the life the leader of the free world and all the while is worried about getting busted for skipping art class! Her humorous top 10 lists add a great mix to the story and her major crush on Jack, her sister's boyfriend, and her new feelings on the First Son are very realistic. The ending was great and I liked this book better than the Princess Diaries because the main character is not always whining about how her life is SO over. I definetly recomend it.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Samantha Madison is what you would call an outcast. She's somewhat of a goth/artist. Her best friend, Catherine, wears clothes from like the 1800's, she's in love with her older sister Lucy's boyfriend, and her younger sister is a certified genius. When Lucy tells their parents that Samantha is charging people to have their picture drawn with their favorite celebrity her parents enroll her in art class, where she meets David, and is humiliated on her first day, which causes her to ditch her next art lesson, and end up being in the right place at the right time to save the president's life. Which immediatley throws Samantha into a whirlwind of popularity and press conferences. Not to mention that the president's son may be falling in love with her. How could someone's life go from so normal to so crazy? Meg Cabot has another hit with "All American Girl." Obviously she can write on any topic, and this one was original and refreshing compared to the other teen/young adult books out right now. This is a must read for all fans of "The Princess Diaries." A lot of teenage girls will be able to relate completely to Samantha.
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Summary: All About All American Girl!
Review: This book is one of those books that I could NOT put down. The story moves at a nice, quick pace, but doesn't go too fast where there are a million different plots going on. Meg Cabot gives the reader so much imagination on deciding how the character acts and looks like. This is one of my favorite books to read on a lazy, summer afternoon. It's like Meg Cabot stepped back into the world of being a sophomore in high school! With witty remarks and clever irony, this book will make you stay up til 3 AM reading it!!!
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Summary: all american read
Review: Samantha Madison knows she is a talented artist. However, her brilliance is overshadowed by her perfect older sister Lucy. Then, when she gets caught doing celebrity drawings in class, she gets punished for her skill by being sent to an art class of all places! Sam doesn't want to be forced to conform to "acceptable" art, so she takes a stand by skipping. During one of her jaunts outside of art class, she happens to save the President of the USA from a would be assasin. She ands up with a broken arm. She becomes a Hero, and her (horrible) school photo is plastered on newspapers across America. This apparently gives her sister liberty to torture her with beauty products. To top of all of the craziness, Sam can't decide who she likes more: her sister's boyfriend Jack or the President's son, David. Can Sam ever have a normal life is she is the world's only Teen Ambassador, is being stalked by the media, and might be in love with the son of the leader of the free world?
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Summary: All American Girl by Meg Cabot
Review: Have you ever taken a break from your busy life just to sit down and realize it could be worse? The book All American Girl is definitely one that I would recommend because it makes you aware that others have it tough sometimes, too. With its humorous storyline, its characters that can easily be related to, and all its quirky lists, it kept me laughing all the way through.
Although we know it's rude, it's fun to laugh at someone else for a change, so why not do it with Samantha, a teenaged, middle-child Goth? You just can't help but laugh at the hysterical storyline that Meg Cabot, the author, has provided. With details like being busted for adding a pineapple to a painting where there is none, and being made fun of by what you later find out to be the president's son, the book's feeling is always a positive, jovial one.
Cabot presents characters that the book's main audience, teenagers, can empathize with. Samantha, the main character, experiences things like living with a genius younger sister while all she can pull off is a low C or living as a social outcast while her sister is the most popular girl in school. Although exasperated, Samantha involves herself in things that normal teenagers go through, like falling in love with her sister's boyfriend or changing her style only to be ignored even more. However, most teens don't save the president's life and become a nationwide hero!
Cabot's made the book all the more interesting with a creative style of putting lists throughout the book. Her humorous lists include "top ten signs that Jack loves me and not my sister Lucy" and "top ten reasons why I hate my sister Lucy." These lists make the book more understandable and really add a comical element.
Meg Cabot's All American Girl is a book that I would defiantly recommend to any audience. Its ludicrous storyline, its characters that you can easily identify with, and its witty lists, make this book really hard to put down.
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Summary: Another one of those better-than-I-expected books
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While this book is almost definitely unlikely to happen in real life, I couldn't help falling in love with it.
Samantha Madison is sister to Lucy, the most beautiful and popular girl in school and Rebecca, a certified genius. Sam is the girl who has only one friend and wears all black; she's not exactly the most popular girl. Sam is also in love with Lucy's 'radical' boyfriend, Jack. As punishment for selling her (great) celebrity drawings to her fellow students, Sam's parents force her to go to art class. (Which turned out not to be so bad after all.) The next week, instead of going to art class and facing her art teacher who had embarassed her the week before, Sam goes into the music store under the art studio. There she ends up saving the president of the United States from attempted murder. Soon after, Sam realizes her true feelings for the president's son and Jack.
I really enjoyed the characters in this book and how well they were explained and drawn. I found all the characters loveable in their own seperate ways, especially Sam's best friend Catherine and Lucy's boyfriend and Sam's "soul mate", Jack. Sam's narrative is fun and humorous and never got old to me. As I said, this book is unrealistic, but interesting and would make a great rainy-day read.
~Atalanta
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Summary: i love Meg Cabot!!
Review: Samantha Madison is an excellent artist and everyone at school pays her to draw them with their favorite celebrities, but this ruins her life because her parents find out and make her go to art classes after school. Also she has a big sister, Lucy, who is a cheerleader and Sam always gets stuck with her hand-me-downs. Sam's younger sis is a certified genius and she's only nine! To top it all off, Sam is in love (or thinks she is) with Lucy's boyfriend Jack who is also an artist. One day, she is dropped off for art class but since she was humiliated in front of the whole class the day before, not to mention in front of David, a cute guy in her class who just might like her. So anyways, she was hanging out in the record store that is right next to the art class and she noticed a guy who seemed a little odd. She went outside to wait for her ride home since the class would be over by now, and then the president came by to get a cookie from the cookie store next to the record store. This happened to be the perfect timing for Sam to save the president from an assination attempt! To find out how she saved him, what happens with David and Jack, and to figure out why the president happened to be there at that time of the day, read this really exciting book! I would also reccomend all of Meg Cabots other books.
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