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Summary: Star-Spangled Success
Review: Top ten reasons to purchase All-American Girl:10. Samantha Madison is just like Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot. New York: HarperCollins, c2000) and its sequels. Well, not EXACTLY like her. She's into art instead of environmental causes and animal rights. Mia is a vegetarian, while Samantha hardly eats anything but hamburgers, and cannot stand vegetables. Also, Samantha saves the president of the United States from being shot, rather than finding out she's a princess of a small European country. Still, they are both insecure introverts thrust into the national and/or international limelight, who handle it like typical teenagers, often with hilarious results. 9. Find out why if you're going to shoot the president to impress somebody famous, it's best not to listen to a song about that person over and over again in a music store beforehand. 8. Learn little-known facts about Dolley Madison-the first lady, not the ice cream brand. 7. See that it's possible to get a boyfriend even if your religious mother dresses you funny-especially if your best friend saves the president's life. 6. The president's son ... would be much better to date than an older sister's boyfriend. 5. Encounter a popular cheerleader who surprises her little sister by having more depth than her urban rebel artist boyfriend who their parents hate. 4. Discover how forced art lessons and a dedicated teacher can benefit even the most talented young artists despite the presence of a psychotic talking bird. 3. See how having someone who saved the president's life fall on you can advance your career as a news anchor. 2. The author actually has teens listening to music people their age like, rather than favorites of thirty- and forty-somethings. News flash to authors of young adult books-most people aged 13-19 are NOT into Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling Stones! 1. Cabot has turned lists into a credible writing style. The ones in the book are similar to this one, and they bring out the humor in situations that are obviously painful to the protagonists of both All-American Girl and The Princess Diaries trilogy.
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Summary: All-Amercian Girl
Review: All-American Girl stars 15 year old Samantha Madison, middle child and urban rebel. Sam's life is pretty normal being the mid kid between her popular older sister Lucy (whose boyfriend, Jack, Sam happens to be in love with) and her genius kid sister Rebecca. But that all changes when Lucy shows their parents the celebrity pictures Sam has been charging people to draw. So her parents force her into art lessons. Sam reluctantly goes and humiliates herself on the first day there. The only good thing is that she met David, a fellow artist who happened to like her combat boots. But the next day when Sam decides to skip art class she ends up stopping an attempted asassination on the president's life by a Christie Brinkley, "Uptown Girl" loving man. Soon Sam is being hounded constantly by the press and given unwanted responsibilities and popularity. But that's not the worst part. The worst part is that the president's son just might be in love with her. Armed with her Top 10 lists Sam is a refreshing character. Even though I'm sure none of us reders have ever saved the president's life, you can still easily relate to Sam. Excellent read!
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Summary: All American Girl - filled with all american heart
Review: OMG! This book was amazing! I read all of the princess diaries books by Meg Cabot and figured this was going to be like that. But boy was I wrong! This book had a totally different plot (apart from the love part of it) and I was hooked from beginning to end. Of course it's a love story about a girl who saves the president's life. I could totally see someone acting exactly like Sam: 1.being in love with her sister's (idiotic) boyfriend, 2.having to deal with every day problems along with many others, 3.Being in love but not knowing it, and 4.having the perfect older sister and a gueinus younger sister and being the average one stuck in the middle. I highly recomend you read this book and even BUY it! I loved it and I think you will too.
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Summary: hi
Review: I thought this was a good book but the main character Sam is a lot like Mia in Princess Diaries. Anything wrong in it is made up for though when they mention Orlando Bloom.
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Summary: All-American Girl
Review: This book was better than I thought it would be. I mean, sure what are the chances of a teenager saving the presidents life, but thats besides the point. This story is about a 15-yr-old girl named Samantha. Sam is a middle child who's life isnt very glam because 1. Her older sister is the most popular girl at her high school & 2. Her younger sister is a genius. Campared to both of them, shes just your average teenager, who only wears black clothes, and dyed all her other clothes black because (I like this idea) she is mourning our generation, and a girl who has a major crush on her older sisters boyfriend. One day, when she was skipping out on the art lessons her parents are making her take, she saves the President from a crazy guy trying to kill him, so Christie Brinkley would notice him (I still have a little part of the chourus of "Uptown Girl" stuck in my head). Sam now faces her new, and unwanted, popularity. Now everyone is linking her, and the Presidents son as a couple, which is also the last thing she wanted.
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Summary: Really Cool
Review: Have you ever saved the president? Well, Samantha Madison has. All American Girl is a story about a girl named Samantha Madison but everybody calls her Sam. This is a realistic fiction book. Sam is the middle child in a family of 4. Her older sister (Lucy) is the most popular girl in school and her younger sister is a "certified genius". What basically happens is Lucy finds celebrity pictures that Sam has been selling and tells their mom, who makes Sam take art lessons. Which is how Sam ends up saving the president and having his son fall in love with her. Sound complicated? It is. But as soon as you start reading you get it. The reason I liked this book so much is that it was a page-turner. It grabs you at the beginning and doesn't let you go until the end. I think a teenage girl would enjoy this the most because it's easy to relate to. I really enjoyed how she wrote it from Sam's point of view. It made the story more realistic.
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Summary: The true all american girl
Review: This was such a cute/good book that any teenage girl who is into romance and politics and learning about life, will love. This is deffinately the type of book that when you've finished reading it, makes you look back at the accomplished pages read and let out a long hardy sigh at how great and heartfelt the book was. I think every teenage girl can relate to the main character in one way or another, wheather its her love of music(gwen stefani;ska) or her love of art, or her individuality, every girl can find something to relate to. So if you like feel good books that also make you think, you will love "All American Girl". If this review did nothing to convince you, maybe the fact that the author is also the author of the Princess Diaries series, and if you are a fan of them, you'll LOVE this book. Samantha has one thing in common with Mia and thats her wit.READ IT, YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!
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Summary: A laugh-out-loud, romantic, ride
Review: Samantha Madison knows she's destined for ruin. Not only is she the middle child,(everyone knows the middle child gets the least attention)but she just also happens to have a cheerleader, older sister Lucy, who has got one CUTE boyfriend and, her little sister just happens to be a certified genuis. When her parents send her to a professional artist, Susan Boone, so she can express her artistic ability, instead of drawing movie hunks in German class(which by the way she is failing)Samantha is sure all her family is against her. So nothing else can go wrong right?Not! She becomes the whole laughting stock of the art class, because Susan keeps saying she doesn't "see" what she draws and guess who throws a fit? Oh, yeah did we mention that this idiotic guy named David makes a cute comment on her boots and Sam gets all blushy? Humiliated and angry Samantha cuts her art class and only happens to pounce on a guy with a gun and save the President's life, breaking her arm in the process. Suddenly Samantha finds herself thrust into the limelight, she so wants to escape. Everyone thinks she's a hero, even though she knows she is far from one. Coke and Pepsi want her to sponser their soda, Barbara Walters wants to interview her, and she is made Teen Ambassador to the UN. What could get worse? How about she finds out the president's son, turns out to be David, and he might just be in love with her? Meg Cabot has once again showed us that she can make a good book out of any topic. I loved her Princess Diaries books and I think I like All-American Girl even more. It is so sweet. I can't wait for All-American Girl 2!
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Summary: Pure Evil
Review: Talk about pre-fabricated, sugar-coated, load-up-on-mushy-predictable-endings teen...novels. Meg Cabot struck it lucky with lovable Mia,the "homegrown" princess who learns she is the sole heir to the throne of Genovia in a book written what? A year ago? Two? Since then, her works have weakened with each effort. Princess Diaries I was great, II was above average, III was unfulfilling and now this. Well here it is folks, Cabot's cheesy attempt to portray American families. Is there any cultural diversity in the book? No. Sure, Catherine (the lead character's best friend) is of Hispanic decent, but she's too perfect. The characters have no flaws, no tough side, nothing to make them real. They're thin, transparent. They could never survive the real world. So all right.. Samantha Madison, our leading lady for this story is the tortured middle child striving for individuality (Yet her favorite band is NO DOUBT). She has no shortcoming except her brutal self-esteem level. She saves the life of the president, strives for some more individuality, falls in love with the president's son and they all live happily ever after. Gag me with a spoon. "Samantha" uses a lot of unnecessary commas. I can excuse profuse swearing, but profuse comma use is just an offense to humankind. The story trivializes what it is to be an American teenager. Where are the gang shootings? Where are the overcome-the-impossible encouragements? Where are the striking words that will allow me to find a true sense of self?? Better yet, where are the author's standpoints on America? If you're doing a book, do it right. I found this book ridiculing and offensive and have lost all respect for Meg Cabot, Jenny Carroll and all other handles she'll go by in the future. I knew musicians could sell out, but authors? It's just inexcusable. I don't mean to offend anyone with this, but it's my opionion and I felt it right to express myself fully on this.
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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read
Review: Absolutely insane? Definitely. Very far-fetched? Definitely. But that's why this book is great. It's crazy and it's highly doubtable that this would ever happen in life (in fact, it's near impossible). But this book isn't predictable. Meg Cabot throws in little turns to keep you guessing at every corner. The "Top 10" lists in the book are absolutely hilarious and keep the book flowing. The sense of humor and wit used in this book will appeal to readers of all ages.
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