High School High

Port City High #1

by Shannon Freeman

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. High school drama has a way of solidifying or destroying friendships. Will friends Brandi, Marisa, and Shane stay tight or get swallowed up by Port City High?

Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary

199 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2013

Reviews

[FNC https://www.goodreads.com/user/edit?tab=profile# · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was great and had relatable, real life teen situations that really appealed to me as a reader. This book is really funny and many times I had to stop reading altogether and start laughing. Miss Freeman's work was truly amazing and her talent shines brightly through every chapter. I can't wait for the next one! This book is a MUST READ!!!

[Annabel Corona · Rating 5 out of 5]

My first thought on this book was " Oh no, another highschool chick book." Honestly I'm not the type of person to read these types of gernes, but this was actually a really great book. It was a book I could actually relate to since I'm actually still attending highschool. If any of my friends wanted to read anything good,I'd recommened they read this one.

[Derrick Freeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome Book!

[Jennifer Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book.

[Clementine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Smart and accessible for its audience. Whip-fast pacing keeps the reader engaged. Definitely enjoyable. Full review to come.

[Phyllis Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

High School High is an honest and often accurate portrayal of a typical high school with frank dialogue, female cattiness and pot stirrers. With a host of characters, the reader is carried on a roller coaster as characters are tempted by the misuse of drugs and pot. In the end, there is a welcomed moral twist. Another one for the list for YA readers who like a quick read.

[Micaela Palacios · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the book High School High by Shannon Freeman . Even though the book wasn’t that big, I feel like a lot of events happened. The main characters in the book were three best friends named Brandi, Marisa, and Shane.The book is about the three best friends going into freshman year of high school. They all went to Port City High . The girls are very popular, but they all participate in many different thing. Such as art club, sports, and photography The girls are trying to survive high school together, but after drama, ex boyfriends, and even drugs, Will they stick together of fall apart? Read the book High School High to find out!
In my opinion, this book was really good. As a highschooler I found myself relating to most of the things this book talked about. Since there’s a lot of drama about the same things in real life. I really recommend this book for teenagers. The book has a little bit of foul language, but not too much. Since the book isn’t that long, I thought it was a fast read. Good thing there's a series!

[Erica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading to prepare for a presentation on Teen urban lit at the YA Lit Symposium.

High School High is a teen urban hi-lo book (high interest -low reading level). There are three friends entering high school who are on their own paths- one gets involved in prescription drugs and another is dating an older football player with only one thing on his mind.

It's a quick read and worth picking up for something different.

[Sydney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very fast paced and a good view of life as a high school freshman. The girls are likable and I would have liked them as friends. I was happy to read that they were not totally perfect and made mistakes. This book takes place during their 1st semester as freshmen.

[Shakeira Wiliams · Rating 5 out of 5]

omg!!! this book was so awesome it was very informative im looking forward to finishing the hold 8 boook series .i loved it

[Danielle Chew-Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

good

[Curtis Guidry · Rating 5 out of 5]

AMAZING BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL EXCELENT

[S.L. Bynum · Rating 3 out of 5]

The voice and dialogue in this book are authentic and real. My favorite storyline was Shane's because it was done so realistically, she acted exactly like addicts are prone to act toward their family and friends.

Now the bad. The book was a little fast paced for me. Also, the writing made me cringe. The author did more telling than showing. Some scenes I wanted to see what happened between the characters, but she just said they did this, did that, then she jumped to another scene. The book was so short and could've been fleshed out a lot more. I also thought that the situation between Brandi and Marisa was a little unrealistic. I find it hard to believe Brandi would just be cool with her best friend dating her ex, especially an ex who hurt her. I would've expected her to take longer to accept it.

But this is an okay book for urban teens, so I at least gave it 3 stars.

[Hilary · Rating 1 out of 5]

“High School High,” has a very appealing cover and a tired tried-and-true formula: Three good friends embark on their freshman year of high school. Will the pressures and stresses of their new environment bring the girls closer together, or will it tear them apart?

Saddleback’s intended audience is high-low readers, so the text is colloquial and conversational. Dialogue is slangy and laced with “teen speak,” to make it appear more authentic. Nonetheless, the text would benefit from more stringent copy editing; it was riddled with grammatical errors and read like an uncorrected proof. The slim volume, only offers enough space to tell a necessarily very brief story. This results in a truncated plot, riddled with clichés, and a large cast suffering from underdeveloped, stereotyped, shallow characterization. Brandi, a cheerleader, dates an older football player who pressures her to have sex before she is ready. Marisa shares more classes with Brandi’s ex-boyfriend than her girlfriends, and the two soon share a guilty kiss (resulting in inevitable drama). Shane wants to start high school on a fresh page and drops her pot habit, only to become addicted to prescription drugs.

This is the first volume in a series.

[Sara · Rating 1 out of 5]

I recently read the story "High School High" by Shannon Freeman, but I'd say it was a major mistake on my part. I was craving to read something dramatic in a school setting, so the cover instantly enticed me. The story is about three girls who've just entered their freshman year at school, and face issues through stress, and love which causes unnecessary drama. Honestly the only part I enjoyed to a fair degree was when Brandi finally put her foot down to her 'loving' boyfriend's attempts at getting in her pants. Other than that the entire book was boring, mainly due to the simple language that simply explained things to the readers as if they were fools. I also disliked the word choice of the entire piece, as well as the awkwardness when reading the book. In my opinion the book wasn't at all fun to read, rather it was drag the entire way through, since the composition was terrible. There is no way I'll ever recommend this book to anyone I personally know, as there is nothing engaging about the plot. Not to mention the author has no skill at describing any even she uses the simplest writing which irritated me, and it might do the same to you.

[Mar'keisha Guidry · Rating 5 out of 5]

High School High is a book that I as a teenager can relate to, because being at Memorial High School with the boys, girl, drugs, peer pressure and even friend problems is very similar to High School High, I would recommend for my friends and the teenagers in my family to read it. Most teenagers go through these things when they enter high schoo. I know me and my close friends did. So I know there are more teenagers out there are going through it too.

[Ken'Netre Zeaunce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tbh,i really enjoyed this book .Many girls can relate to this .When i would be upset I would just read this book ,just my body would be there .This book took me on an life learning journey .This book is one of my favorite books i've read in my entire life. Ms.Freeman you are very talented and very intelligent .When I first got these books from the library i thought they would be just boring ,but they were the opposite .Thanks for taking your time out to write these book .

[Octavia Cade · Rating 2 out of 5]

While there were parts of this I liked, overall it wasn't quite my thing. I tend to enjoy stories about female friendships - there's never enough of them - and while the friendship between the three central protagonists here is solid, it doesn't really make up for the fact that I was only interested in one of them. Admittedly, I'm not the target audience - it's been decades since I was a teen, but even then the only character I think I would have warmed to is Shane. Oddly, in a story set at a school she's the only one even remotely concerned with academics, and her storyline here is about coping with her workload in unhealthy ways and learning better. I sympathise with her journalist ambitions and she's the only one of the three who ever goes to the library, apparently, so of course I'm going to like her. Despite her bad decisions she's got a brain in her head and is trying hard to use it. The other two are primarily (and tediously) obsessed with squabbling about boys and status, though this leveled off a bit in the second half as that central relationship resurfaced.

[Joselyn Gastelum · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think its good it shows the realistic highschool expiernce and conflicts that young girls go through.