Review: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.THE DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger Series: Stand Alone Published by Little Brown, Poppy on September 7th 2010 Genres: Emotions & Feelings, Family, Young Adult Pages: 280 Source: Bought Goodreads Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren’t so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends...

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Review: A Midsummer Nightmare

Title: A Midsummer’s NightmareSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult- ContemporaryAuthor: Kody KeplingerPublisher: PoppyRelease Date: June 5, 2012Book: FC sent by publisher   “Whitley Johnson’s dream summer with her divorcé dad has turned into a nightmare. She’s just met his new fiancée and her kids. The fiancée’s son? Whitley’s one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin’ great. Worse, she totally doesn’t fit in with her dad’s perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn’t even notice the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person she’s ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she...

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Review: Shut Out

Title: Shut OutSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult-ContemporaryAuthor: Kody KelingerPublisher: PoppyRelease Date: September 5, 2011Book: Finish copy sent by publisher “Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it’s a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight with the soccer team or to prank their locker room. And on three separate occasions Randy’s car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend’s attention. Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: she and the other players’...

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