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Summary: A book for our times
Review: Melissa Kantor knows young girls and the issues they talk about, worry about, dream about. As a parent and grandparent and reader of the news, the problems raised in this book are those confronting teens and pre-teens in our society all the time. When I was young, my friends and I horrified our parents; the music we listened to and the way we danced.
Kantor raises the issues young people of today have to deal with and she does it with great style and humor. She has a wonderful touch with dialogue.
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Summary: One of my favorites!!!!
Review: My 10 year HS reunion is coming up this year, and I got in the kick for having a little nostalgia session.
Melissa Kantor took me back to the days when falling in and out love seemed so hard, do I tell him I like him? Or do I just continue to blunder my way through hoping he'll see the real me.
Jan, pronounced Yahn, is a girl who's trying to find her place in the world. As a Senior at Lawrence Academy she's in the process of trying to figure out who she will become and what college will allow her to become that person.
Through her hysterics, Jan writes several versions of her college essay about what would make her a benefit to each of her colleges that she's chosen. Starting with a humorous look at how she'll be on her 3rd husband on page 285 of her autobiography, and having a breakdown about how she's got a butt that's too big and she is average and nothing special and she will be the reason that everyone succeeds, at least I didn't do a Jan Miller. Jan goes from feeling extremely self confident to feeling like the biggest loser on a daily basis. I remember those days well.
Jan's meets Josh, who she instantaneously dubs a loser, only later to find out that he's the creme of her crush. We follow all her mishappenings involving Josh, like eating ice cream with nuts, even though she hates nuts, just because cosmo says that guys like a girl who eats. Cosmo, Seventeen, YM? Those are teenagers bibles. And it's great to see them used as a point of humor instead of as the bible, they truly aren't.
Kantor's writing style was easy to slip into, the rhythm worked and put me into Jan's world, while allowing me to remember, how much drama I had when I was Jan.
Kudos to a great teen lit novel full of fun, and clean love.
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Summary: A stunning debut
Review: Reading Confessions of a Not it Girl is the most fun I've had all year. Kantor totally gets the way 17 year-olds think, and her dialogue is fun and exciting. You root for the main characters the whole way through. I couldn't put it down.-Ruby, 13
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Summary: Hilarious New Teen Chick Lit
Review: Seventeen-year-old high school senior, Jan (pronounced Yahn) Miller can't seem to get anything right. It's unfortunate enough that her parents named her after some obscure, unknown, Renaissance painter; but she's also cursed with having a butt big enough to be featured in the GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS, and being the best friend to Rebecca Larkin, one of CHIC magazines New York IT girls. All this combined with her major crush on a totally cute new hottie named Josh Gardner, as well as her nerve-wracking college interviews, in which her Mother chooses one of the ugliest outfits known to mankind out for her to wear, makes Jan's life a living soap opera.
In Melissa Kantor's debut CONFESSIONS OF A NOT IT GIRL, she introduces us to a wonderful new heroine in the world of modern day teenage girls, and proves that she can easily hold her own against such seasoned writers as Meg Cabot (author of THE PRINCESS DIARIES) and Rachel Cohn (author of POP PRINCESS). Jan is a hilarious protagonist, whose views on life are "out there," while at the same time filled with truth that will have girls of all ages nodding their heads in agreement with them. Filled with witty commentary, and an adorable, light romance, CONFESSIONS OF A NOT IT GIRL is something that can not be missed.
Erika Sorocco
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Summary: My Confessions of this book
Review: This is the kind of book that you can't tear your eyes away from until you are done. The book is about a seventeen-year-old girl from brooklyn, and her dealing with the hardships of highschool, i.e. boys,parents,college applications, best friends, (...) etc. It's not one of those books that the whole book you read about what a loser she is, and how nobody really cares about her;it's about a girl named Jan who has a best friend that is one of Manhatten's hottest "it" girls and that even though Jan doesn't know it she is as, if not equally, as cool. She likes this guy, named josh and I won't say anymore. I heard that there will be sequals, and I am extremely eager to get my hands on them!
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