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Title: Sydney, Herself by Colby Rodowsky ISBN: 0-606-06044-8 Publisher: Demco Media Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Turtleback List Price(USD): $10.55

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Average Customer Rating: 1 (1 review)

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Summary: TURN ON YOUR FAN, FOLKS! HERE COMES A REAL STINKER!
Comment: This book is a real stinker. No two ways about it.

The protagonist is an odious girl named Sydney. She is a foolish girl who convinces herself and tries to convince other people that her natural father is a famous rock star, a member of the Australian group, the Boomerangs.

The Boomerangs are a thinly disguised ersatz version of the Beatles. Since the story is set in 1988 and John Lennon was at that time the only Beatle who was no longer living, naturally the Boomerangs had to have a deceased member. The Beatles had Ringo with the trademark nickname, so the fictitious Boomerangs had the fictitious "Pudge" as Ringo's imaginary counterpart. Jamie is silly Sydney's Boomerang of choice and she does some really stupid things. She writes a letter to the local paper saying she is Jamie's daughter; when she comes across an article about the death of Jamie's mother, she cries over the death of her grandmother.

Sydney's mother is another foolish charcter. The only thing she has told silly Sydney about her father is that he was Australian; Sydney invents the rest. They live in an apartment with a nosy landlord who has the audacity to question the mother's social life. Since when does an adult have a curfew or have to report to a landlord?!

The ending is as stupid as Sydney. I didn't like Sydney at all and I really didn't care for this stupid story. A round of pies in the face for Sydney!