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Mirror Image #1
Stranger in the Mirror
How would you like to be drop-dead gorgeous? Fifteen-year-old Callie Bailey just wants to be beautiful, like her model-sister Laurel. Only her best friend Addison knows her terrible secret: she has the world's biggest crush on Laurel's fabulous seventeen-year-old boyfriend, Jake. But when Callie finds the glistening heart-shaped meteorite, her life changes in ways she can't imagine.
Suddenly the angry, geeky girl is gone. In her place is a knockout who becomes the most popular girl in school. Best of all, Jake calls. Forget about Laurel. All he wants is Callie. Then Callie shows up at a modeling job meant for Laurel, and it looks like her own career is about to take off. But now that she has everything she ever wanted, she's about to lose more than she ever imagined....
Suddenly the angry, geeky girl is gone. In her place is a knockout who becomes the most popular girl in school. Best of all, Jake calls. Forget about Laurel. All he wants is Callie. Then Callie shows up at a modeling job meant for Laurel, and it looks like her own career is about to take off. But now that she has everything she ever wanted, she's about to lose more than she ever imagined....
- GenresYoung Adult
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1999
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Cherie Bennett
134 books154 followersA popular novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist, Cherie moves effortlessly from genre to genre, writing powerful and entertaining work, whether in literary hardcover teen fiction, mass market paperback fiction, for the stage, film and television, and for her nationally-syndicated teen advice column.
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January 22, 2020
I read this book when I was 12. I didn't realized that it was a series until I found it in my adulthood. I read this book as an adult to see if I still loved it, I have forgotten most about the plot, but I am going to give my honest review about it. Callie is a teen girl that feels that shes never going to matter in the world which is generally how most of us feel when we are that age and have a popular older sister with the hot boyfriend. I love the book teaches that beauty is in the inside and that having everything you ever wanted isnt exactly what its caked up to be. Is Callie selfish? Yes and no. Shes selfish in a way that she really should of been honest to her family and friends and should of told Jake no when things started between them. But again shes a young teenage girl that learned from her mistakes and has an amazing friendship with her best friend. Stranger in the Mirror(Mirror image) was my favorite book back then and still is. Worth the read.
September 12, 2015
I always feel a little bad when I abandon a book before I get to the end, but I couldn't even make it past this book's first chapter in which the main character, Callie, reveals to us that she's desperately in love with her sister's boyfriend and wishes that she could have him.
That awful wish combined with the facts that:
1. Callie is cringe-worthily egotistical because she's a "geek" and therefor so much better than everyone else
2. Callie's geeky best friend is so in love with her and he just wishes she'd see how much better he is
3. Callie's model sister is treated like an A-list celebrity
just made me give up. I might have liked this book in high school, but as an adult it's a definite "no."
That awful wish combined with the facts that:
1. Callie is cringe-worthily egotistical because she's a "geek" and therefor so much better than everyone else
2. Callie's geeky best friend is so in love with her and he just wishes she'd see how much better he is
3. Callie's model sister is treated like an A-list celebrity
just made me give up. I might have liked this book in high school, but as an adult it's a definite "no."
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