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Title: Second Helpings : A Novel by Megan McCafferty ISBN: 0-609-80791-9 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (113 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: better than the first
Comment: Like an 80's movie with a brain, this book is funny, clever, and so very true. Bless McCafferty for presenting the high school experience with humor *and* dignity. Reading her books makes me almost wish I could go back and delighted that I never have to.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Seconds!
Comment: After Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings picks up the story at the beginning of the following school year, at which point Jessica and Marcus haven't talked since New Year's Eve. Almost against her will, Marcus is slowly dragged back into her life. At first, Marcus tries to get his best friend to go out with Jessica and he succeeds in doing so. In truth, he's in love with Jessica, and only wants her to be happy. It takes Jessica most of the story to realize what Marcus feels, what she herself feels and the reality of things around her. Second Helpings is a story of realization, friendship and growing up. It's a tightly woven story and while it's significantly longer than Sloppy Firsts, the two stories merge together well. In short, it's a fine novel and improves upon Sloppy Firsts. A definite winner! Also highly recommended: The Bell Jar by Plath, The Losers' Club by Richard Perez
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: This sequel to the highly acclaimed "Sloppy Firsts" was in some ways better, some ways worse than the first. As has been said in other reviews, it starts out slow, not nearly as captivating as the first one had been. Though her re-aquantince with paul parlipiano "crush to end all crushes, gay man of her dreams" was interesting, it didn't have quite the appeal of an awkward Marcus Flutie incident. I found the Gladdie scenes boring at first but later understood thier importance. When she does come back to school, that's when I became addicted again. It was those parts I found myself rereading again and again after i finished the book. Marcus becomes more of an enigma at school as they start contact with eachother again, Jess develops a relationship with the hilarious Len Levy, and she finds herself caught up in a series of rumors being spread about her and those around her in "Pineville Low." I was amused time after time by Jessica's favorite phrases that differed some from the first book, like "har dee har har" among others. After a while though her repetitiveness did get a little old. At the end I felt the author wrapped it up to quickly, there was much more room for dragging on. Overall a fantastic book, the characters so relateable that it seems as if you know them. It is a perfect example of a teenage diary, no matter how many mistakes. For this reason i find her "genius" status a little puzzling, since she seemed no more or less intelligent than the average teen. I still give it 5 stars.
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Title: Sloppy Firsts : A Novel by Megan McCafferty ISBN: 0609807900 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares ISBN: 0385729340 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: All I Want Is Everything (Gossip Girl, 3) by Cecily Von Ziegesar ISBN: 0316912123 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones ISBN: 0689841140 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Juv) Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants : Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison ISBN: 0060097477 Publisher: HarperTempest Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.89 |
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