Thwonk

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Summary: read this book, k
Review: This book is really good b/c it is really interesting , well written, and it talks about something every teen girl can understand. Its about how this girl really likes this guy but realizes that she doesnt have a chance with him b/c he is like the most popular guy in her school and hes really cute and has a girlfriend already. Then this cupid comes along and changes everything and she gets the guy of her dreams... until she realizes what he is really like and that he is obnoxious, has nothing in common with her, and doesnt understand her true passion, photography. She wants him to fall out of love with her and the cupid insists that he cant help her anymore. Then the night of this dance, the cupid comes back and makes him not like her anymore. He goes back to liking his old girlfriend, and she goes back to her old life and love of photography, but with a more mature attitude.

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Summary: read this book, k
Review: This book is really good b/c it is really interesting , well written, and it talks about something every teen girl can understand. Its about how this girl really likes this guy but realizes that she doesnt have a chance with him b/c he is like the most popular guy in her school and hes really cute and has a girlfriend already. Then this cupid comes along and changes everything and she gets the guy of her dreams... until she realizes what he is really like and that he is obnoxious, has nothing in common with her, and doesnt understand her true passion, photography. She wants him to fall out of love with her and the cupid insists that he cant help her anymore. Then the night of this dance, the cupid comes back and makes him not like her anymore. He goes back to liking his old girlfriend, and she goes back to her old life and love of photography, but with a more mature attitude.

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Summary: One word: WOW!
Review: This book was the perfect book for me, a 14 year old girl, and I definetly think any teen, no matter what age or sex, whether a "geek" or "cool person" will agree. I found myself relating to so many aspects of this book: A crush turned obsession, feeling like the person you adore doesn't know you exist, parents which push you in the direction you don't want to go, making a hard decision, regreting something which at the time seemed good, feeling embarassed...the list goes on and on. I was so amazed when reading it I felt as if the author identified with teens so well, that she must have read my own personal diary. If you have not read this book, you definetly should.

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Summary: Wishes can help and hurt!
Review: Thwonk by Joan Bauer is a good book for teens who enjoy reading about fantasies in romances. A. J. is a teen photographer who has enough talent to get into top art schools, but she is also interested in Peter Terris, a popular high school guy. She stumbles upon a cupid named Johnathan. He helps her through obstacles and gives her one wish. She wishes that Peter would fall in love with her. Johnathan gives her the wish and now Peter is obsessed with her. A. J. is about ready to give up her wish and now Johnathan is gone. She does not know what to do. Joan Bauer is a writer who understands what teens go through. I give this book five stars because I could connect with the character, A. J., and the situations that she goes through.

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Summary: A Cupid can mess up your life
Review: Thwonk is a story about a girl named A.J. who is assigned to take the cover photo for her school newspaper. She is a senior at Benjamin Franklin high school. A.J is also an artist, and brings her camera everywhere. She has had a huge crush on a hunk named Peter Terris. There is a huge dance coming up called the King of Hearts dance. A.J. is dateless and feels humiliated, since the King of Hearts dance is one of the biggest dances of the year. One day she finds a cupid doll on the street. She puts it in her art studio thinking nothing of it, but the next day she finds it standing on the table, alive and breathing! The cupid's name was Jonathan and he gave her an offer that would make her dreams come true. The catch was that he could only help her in one way: artistically, academically or romantically. A.J. decided right away that she wanted Jonathan to shoot Peter Terris with his arrow. Then she would have the undying devotion of Peter forever. After awhile A.J. get so annoyed with Peter, that she asks Jonathn to turn him back the way he was. A.J. realizes that she should be very careful of what she wishes for.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys fantasy, comedy and romance. The author did such a good job of writing the book that it made me want to believe that cupids were real. Thwonk is definetly a book worth reading.

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Summary: Light, Funny Read
Review: Thwonk was a light, funny book with overdramatic and sarcastic AJ as the main character, and many other interesting characters surrounding her as well. This book is about AJ McCreary, a great photographer, and a girl desperate for Peter Terris's attention. When a sarcastic, witty cupid named Jonathan comes to her on a "visit," she has him shoot Peter with one of cupids arrows-to inject him with undying devotion and love. A modern novel with a classic twist and lesson-be careful what you wish for. A casual, amusing read that had me laughing out loud. For ages 12 and up.

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Summary: A good find for any teenage cynic
Review: Thwonk, is an excellent book for a teen who, like myself, scorns ordinary, flouncy teen romance novels (or romance novels period). The story journals A.J. a gifted, but somewhat tortured photographer, who is in her last year of high school and is plagued by several problems many students go through: One, being friction between her fathers pushing for her to enroll in a good liberal arts or bussiness school and get a "useful" degree and her desire to enroll in an art school to study photography. Another, being the common fretting over grades and exams. The last, the one that seems most important to her, the fact that she's seventeen years old and is having trouble holding on to a boyfriend, constantly picking up jerks and players. A.J. sets her sights on Peter Terris, who unfortunately is way out of the question. But when something extraordinary happens and A.J. is given the opportunity to magically wipe away one of the many problems plagueing her, she has to decide whether getting into the college of her choice or patching it up with dad, or getting Peter Terris (the one the most frivilous, but seems most benefitial at the time). Will the wishes be all they're cracked up to be? Bauer deleviers this story with humor and sarcasm any teenage cynic will appreciate.