All-American Girl

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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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Summary: Most hilarious book I've ever read!!!
Review: Samantha Madison is a girl who doesn't think much about herself. She is a regular teenager, but a Goth, and lives in Washington, D.C. She has an older sister named Lucy, who is a preppy cheerleader, and a younger sister Rebecca, who is smarter than the whole family. Samantha is in love with Lucy's boyfriend, Jack, who is an artist just like Samantha. Samantha thinks that Jack should be her boyfriend and not Lucy's because Lucy doesn't "treat him right".

But one day Samantha was at school and this guy told Samantha that he liked her shoes. She was surprised because nobody usually ever talked to her. She just went on with her day and later she got her report card and got a "C-" in German class. Her parents put her in an art class so she won't just fool around in her spare time. When she got there the same guy that told her he liked her shoes was there. They soon became friends once they got to know each other more. The boys name was David and Samantha thought he had a great sense of humor.

A few days later Samantha didn't want to go to art class so she just skipped it. She went right across the street to a music store. There she saw a guy that was listening to the same song, "Uptown Girl", over and over again. She was wondering why but didn't say anything. Later when she was leaving the store, the same guy came out too. She started to get worried but still didn't speak. Then, since she was in Washington, D.C., the president came out of a limousine and went into the ice-cream shop right next door to the music store. The "Uptown Girl Man" (as she called him) pulled out a gun from his coat. He shot near the president but Samantha dove on top of the man and the president ended up safe, but Samantha did have a broken arm. The police arrested "Uptown Girl Man" for trying to assassinate the president. Then the President invited Samantha and her family to the White House for dinner.

At dinner she ate with the President and his family. Surprisingly David, from art class, was there. He was the President's son. Samantha was so surprised about this. David and Samantha became even better friends than before. David even wrote Samantha's name on a windowsill in the White House.

Later Samantha was invited to the "Popular Girl's" party (the girl, Kris Parkes, only invited Samantha because of all the secret service cameras that followed Samantha around from the "almost" President's assassination). So Samantha went because her best friend Catherine really wanted to go with her boyfriend but couldn't go unless Samantha went. So Samantha invited David to go with her. Samantha and David went to the party and fell in love. Now Samantha doesn't like Jack anymore. She likes David.

I recommend this book to girls who like adventure and love.


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Summary: Superest!!!!!!! (I know it is not a word)
Review: This book is about an extreme individual, named Samantha (Sam, for short.). She likes to wear black, listens to NO DOUBT, likes to draw, lives in the absloute shadow of her older sister, who is a social butterfly, and her younger sister, who is a certified genius. Sam is also in love with her older sister's boyfriend, Jack, who she considers as her equal and soul-mate for life. The trouble is, he doesn't know. No, wait. That's not the problem. The problem is that her parents found out she was charging people at school for celebrity portaits and she now has to attend a boring old drawing class, learning about how to draw thing she is already a hundred times better at doing before she even had to take the stupid class. But that's not the half of it. One day, she ditches. And saves the president from an assasin attack. Now, she's famous world-wide, and in much favor of the president, but that's STILL not even the worst part of it. The worst part is. . .















































the president's son might be in love with her.






















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Summary: An O.K. book
Review: This book was written by one of my favorite authors. While reading it, it felt like i was with Samantha everyday and i could see everything that was happening. And i couldnt wait read the next page. All American Girl is a funny and great book, i recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the Princess Diaries series.