The Keysha Diaries, Volume One: Keysha's Drama / If I Were Your Boyfriend

Keysha #1, 2

by William Gerald Beasley

Do you know Keysha Kendall?
Enter the world of the Keysha and Friends series--for the first time, the two original stories in this compelling series are collected into one special volume.
Keysha's Drama
Sixteen-year-old Keysha Kendall is a judge's signature away from foster care when she's sent to live with the father she never knew. Suddenly she has her own room in his big fancy house, a high-powered stepmother and a popular half brother who can introduce her to all the right people at her new school. But Keysha can't forget where she came from and she won't let anyone else, either. Why should her father and his perfect family have it so easy when she and her mother had it so hard? So Keysha hooks up with a rough crowd and does whatever she wants...until what she wants changes really fast....
If I Were Your Boyfriend
How has Keysha gone from popular to social outcast? A girl she thought was her friend planted drugs on her, and Keysha got caught. Now all of the negative attention has turned everyone against her. At school, Keysha is stared at and whispered about, no one will talk to her, and the girl who ruined Keysha's reputation just laughs in her face. So when a guy with his own bad rep offers to help, Keysha has doubts. However, she soon realizes that Wesley Morris is more than just a hot guy--he is someone who has turned his own life around. Still, her family doesn't want him anywhere near Keysha. But Wesley isn't willing to walk away. He'll even risk everything to prove Keysha's innocence...and save their relationship.

Genres: High School

352 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2013

About the author

William Gerald Beasley was Emeritus Professor of the History of the Far East at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the book the Kesha's diary is about a 17 year old girl who lives in a very poor city where her mother doesn't take care of her and she has to learn how to make it on her own. She not a troubled girl at all, but he mom ends up leaving somewhere and Kesha ends up in a place she does not like. Keisha does not know her father and surprisingly neither does her mother! Until one day her dreams came true of knowing a special someone in her life.
I enjoyed the first part of the book after a while cooling with the book was really hard because it was a slow read in the middle of the book. Meanwhile the book is interesting and very detailed. People who like society drama or books that have to do with independent this is a good book. I loved the fact that the author gave a descriptive visual so that the reader can imagine him or herself in the book as the main character. I would recommend this book to most teens. This book wasn't just right for me because it's very easy to predict what's going to happen next in the book. the book was well written but the way it is worded it's hard to understand in some occasions.
was keasha the only child? was kesha willing to live with her father? find out.

[Miss Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I definitely enjoyed the plot line. I thought there was some real strength in the story, the main character Keysha and even the father. The step-mother was just unlikable. While I believed that she could dislike Keysha for a *lot* of very believable reasons, the reasons finally given fell flat for me. She is a grown woman and supposedly very smart, and it just did not ring true for me.

I was entertained and engaged by the first one. The second one is sitting unread, and I don't know if I have the heart to read it. From the synopsis, it sounds like Keysha is going to fall back on her "hood" background, and I just can't stomach that right now. I could be completely wrong, and I do intend to read it, but I really just wished that she would take the gift she is given and move forward. There is plenty of drama in that.

[Vilo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Keysha navigates some pretty heavy drama with non-stop energy and verve. I love that she loves to read and insists her friend read more so they'll have more to talk about. She is a great character I will probably look for again. Some physical fight scenes and drug use situations for other characters, but the message is clear that these are things to avoid.

[Kiwi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing. It was so well written. It showed all the problems Keysha faced. I really liked the part where Wesley came in and helped Keysha know for sure that Liz framed her.

[Harlequin Books]

Miniseries: Keysha's Drama
Category: Teen

[Mayraleeh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it more than I thought I would. Interesting read