Karen's Perfect Match

The Boyfriend Club #3

by Janet Quin-Harkin

Karen tries to cope with the expectations of her Vietnamese parents as she and her friends at Phoenix's Alta Mesa High School deal with problems caused when the Nerds create a computer program to find perfect dates for the girls.

Genres: Fiction

172 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1994

About the author

Janet Quin-Harkin is a pseudonym of Rhys Bowen

Rhys turned to writing children’s books under her married name, Janet Quin-Harkin. Her first picture book was an immediate success and won several awards. More picture books followed, then her agent asked her to write a book for young adults. This was a turning point in Rhys’s career. Her first young adult novel was an instant hit. By her third she was selling half a million copies. Many more popular YA novels followed until Rhys decided she had said all she wanted to say about teenage love and angst, and she turned her real love—mysteries.

Reviews

[Tammy Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Light hearted, lovely read. A great read for anyone, but especially for young women navigating some of the difficulties of adolescence. Great moral strength throughout the story too. I would totally recommend this book!

[Céline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une lecture d'enfance dont j'en retiens de magnifique souvenirs.

Même si ce livre a été écrit en 1994, il ne ressent pas son ancienneté.

Un jolie souvenir.

[Redfox5 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was written in 1994 but doesn't feel outdated, well apart from the cover image and the pictures of the girls on the back. They all have terrible 90's hair. There are computers in it. I didn't know we had computers in 1994, well not ones at school anyways.

This book is about 4 teen girls in High School. It's the third in a series, The Boyfriend Club is there to help the girls get each other dates. The first two books already found Roni and Ginger boys so now it's Karen's turn. On a very early version of online dating, the school nerds set up a database to find Karen's perfect match. However the boy Karen is fixed up with turns out to be pretty boring and she finds herself falling for the weridest boy in the school. This is where the book really shines as the interaction between Karen and James is wonderful and what kept me page turning.

Yes, at 25 I'm am far to old for this book but I happened to really like it! Back when books were either for teens or adults. Not a YA tag in sight!

[A · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book. It was an easy read and a pretty solid story. Can't wait to read the other books in this series!

[Beth]

I FOUND IT!!! I have been trying to remember this title for a week now and I finally stumbled upon it! I loved this book in grade school!