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Summary: No Kooks Allowed
Review: Mother Ocean is the Trust of All. One must be in the Emerald Cathedral. And... Mickey Dora... DA CAT RULES!
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Summary: Review for YA Class of Gidget
Review: This book is fantastic and sheds a different light on my misconceptions of Gidget just being guy crazy and not into surfing for surfing's sake. I particularly enjoyed the ending. What was really great about this book is that it is a fantastic coming of age novel about a little girl, who wanted to grow up too soon, (what teenager doesn't?). It must have been shocking when it first came out, and still, it's amazing anyone's father could write this book, knowing many of the intimate details of his daughters teenage romantic life.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: This is a wonderful book! I read it in just two days! You feel as if Gidget is speaking to you... she's telling you her story. It's a fab story about a teenage girl living in the 50's, although the book is so timeless it can actually take place in any year! Just a really great book, and you have to read it to see what I mean!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: This is a wonderful book! I read it in just two days! You feel as if Gidget is speaking to you... she's telling you her story. It's a fab story about a teenage girl living in the 50's, although the book is so timeless it can actually take place in any year! Just a really great book, and you have to read it to see what I mean!
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Summary: Gidget, Women's Rights Pioneer
Review: When Gidget (Kathy Kohner) entered the all-male world of surfing as a 15 year old teenager in the summer of 1956, she was unknowingly making an early statement for Women's Lib and was opening up surfing to all those female surfers who followed her. This book is the entertaining story of this courageous young girl and should be recommended reading for teenage girls everywhere!
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Summary: Don't judge a book by its... movie?
Review: When my mother thrust Gidget at me about ten years ago, I shuddered. My only experience with the perky California teen was the movie (no dis intended to fans of the flick). Frederick Kohner's novel is a whole other ball of wax (board wax, natch!). While not particularly deep or philosophical, this novel is a delightful coming-of-age story. Gidget's trials and tribulations convey all the horror, delight, confusion, and wonder of the teen years, from finding a pastime for which she has a passion (surfing), to the exultation, heartache (and, again, exultation) of her first real crush. As Gidget takes the reader along on the magical summer of her fifteenth year, she also provides an in-depth tour of the California surf culture in the mid to late 1950s. Every sub-culture has its own lingo, and Kohner gives the reader a colorful, entertaining look at what has become an American Icon: the professional beach bum. Each time I reread my faded, old copy of Gidget, I prayed that it would hold together for one more perusal. Imagine my delight when I found that it had been reissued! It may not be Shakespeare, but Kohner's "bitchen" novel is a classic of American pop culture!
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Summary: Don't judge a book by its... movie?
Review: When my mother thrust Gidget at me about ten years ago, I shuddered. My only experience with the perky California teen was the movie (no dis intended to fans of the flick). Frederick Kohner's novel is a whole other ball of wax (board wax, natch!). While not particularly deep or philosophical, this novel is a delightful coming-of-age story. Gidget's trials and tribulations convey all the horror, delight, confusion, and wonder of the teen years, from finding a pastime for which she has a passion (surfing), to the exultation, heartache (and, again, exultation) of her first real crush. As Gidget takes the reader along on the magical summer of her fifteenth year, she also provides an in-depth tour of the California surf culture in the mid to late 1950s. Every sub-culture has its own lingo, and Kohner gives the reader a colorful, entertaining look at what has become an American Icon: the professional beach bum. Each time I reread my faded, old copy of Gidget, I prayed that it would hold together for one more perusal. Imagine my delight when I found that it had been reissued! It may not be Shakespeare, but Kohner's "bitchen" novel is a classic of American pop culture!
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