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Making Out #7
Lucas Gets Hurt
Lucas gets hurt when he watches Zoey, the love of his life, drift back into the arms of her old boyfriend, Jake. That's when Claire appears, wanting to help Lucas forget his problems. But if Zoey finds out what happened between Lucas and Claire, will she ever take him back?
231 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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Katherine Applegate
280 books6,262 followers#1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate has written many books for young readers, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal.
Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books); and ODDER: AN OTTER’S STORY, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel & Friends).
She’s written or co-written three early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends). With Gennifer Choldenko, she co-authored DOGTOWN and MOUSE AND HIS DOG, illustrated by Wallace West (Feiwel & Friends).
Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY series, illustrated by Patricia Castelao, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY, and THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends); ODDER (Feiwel & Friends); and the forthcoming POCKET BEAR (Feiwel & Friends).
With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)
Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.
Katherine lives in Nevada with her husband and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Heirloom Literary and Mary Pender at WME.
Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books); and ODDER: AN OTTER’S STORY, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel & Friends).
She’s written or co-written three early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends). With Gennifer Choldenko, she co-authored DOGTOWN and MOUSE AND HIS DOG, illustrated by Wallace West (Feiwel & Friends).
Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY series, illustrated by Patricia Castelao, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY, and THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends); ODDER (Feiwel & Friends); and the forthcoming POCKET BEAR (Feiwel & Friends).
With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)
Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.
Katherine lives in Nevada with her husband and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Heirloom Literary and Mary Pender at WME.
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January 25, 2015
Settled down this afternoon with a bowl of peanuts and a Coke to catch up with the Making Out gang.
Christopher tracks down one of the guys who beat him up. Christopher pulls his gun on the skinhead. Aisha rushes in with the police before Christopher can shoot anyone, Christopher gets a stern talking-to from the police and throws the gun into the river. Zoey's and Benjamin's dad moves in to Christopher's apartment building. Benjamin finds his dad's love child Lara, she's roaming the streets of Weymouth dealing drugs and has a trashy hair do.
Lucas and Claire have a comprehensive grope at the beginning of the book and towards the end Claire tells Jake that they went further than that...because she's a master manipulator, see? And she wanted Jake to tell Zoey. So then Zoey would be mad at Jake. Or something. Claire really irritated me in this book. Her ice-cold manipulator bit is so old and she is not very good at it. She and Jake break up. Claire starts an online romance with someone calling himself Flyer. Their conversations go a little like this:
Claire: I like the weather. I'm real aloof.
Flyer: Wow, you're fascinating.
Claire: That's right.
Flyer: You're complex too.
Claire: Tell me about it.
Please act normally, Claire. Way way into the future, Claire meets someone who makes her feel silly for acting the way she does, and it is good for her. That's not for a while though.
Book 7 is the first in the series to name Lucas in the title, so I thought it would be the perfect time to address the terrible model choices for the covers of the books. Zoey is okay…at first. Zoey is described as a willowy blonde and the first few Zoey books feature a willowy blonde on the cover. At some point though, they replace original Zoey with a busty redhead. Why?
Zoey:
Not Zoey:
Benjamin wears Ray Bans, cover Benjamin wears John Lennon sunglasses. Book Aisha has an “explosion” of springy curls, cover Aisha sports what appears to be a crop.
Should this matter to me? No, probably not. Life hands me a crop, my brain has enough capacity to conjure a head of springy curls.
Does it matter to me? YES. I WANT THE COVERS TO ACCURATELY REFLECT THE CHARACTERS.
How hard would it have been to source a pair of Ray Bans or hand the Aisha model a wig? Gah! Anyway in the books Lucas is wiry and blonde, like the other guy from Magic Mike or…I dunno. Legolas from Lord of the Rings? Either way the guy on the front of this book is neither blonde nor wiry. Nowhere in the books does it say, “Lucas has dark hair and is at least 25, a bit like Ross from Friends”
Lucas:
Not Lucas:
Fave moments:
-Nina’s cafeteria comic strip and the following cafeteria food-related quote, "Well, the main course today seems to be paste studded with bits of dog food"
-Aisha and Zoey show up at Nina's house unexpectedly and catch her singing in bed, blithely sketching topless Benjamin.
-Nina and Claire getting ready to go out. Claire says maybe she'll steal Benjamin back if the thing with Jake goes south. Nina laughs and says, "Try it, you deluded halfwit" or something to that effect.
-"Aisha was not exactly embarrassing as a dancer, but close to it. She believed that underneath it all, dance was surely somehow a mathematical exercise that could be figured out by means of formulas..." Ha, I knew Aisha wasn't good enough to teach an Estonian to dance.
Where is Holly?:
-Who knows
Also:
-Looks like these books are being re-released this year in 2-book volumes as The Islanders to be enjoyed by a new generation! Aw.
Christopher tracks down one of the guys who beat him up. Christopher pulls his gun on the skinhead. Aisha rushes in with the police before Christopher can shoot anyone, Christopher gets a stern talking-to from the police and throws the gun into the river. Zoey's and Benjamin's dad moves in to Christopher's apartment building. Benjamin finds his dad's love child Lara, she's roaming the streets of Weymouth dealing drugs and has a trashy hair do.
Lucas and Claire have a comprehensive grope at the beginning of the book and towards the end Claire tells Jake that they went further than that...because she's a master manipulator, see? And she wanted Jake to tell Zoey. So then Zoey would be mad at Jake. Or something. Claire really irritated me in this book. Her ice-cold manipulator bit is so old and she is not very good at it. She and Jake break up. Claire starts an online romance with someone calling himself Flyer. Their conversations go a little like this:
Claire: I like the weather. I'm real aloof.
Flyer: Wow, you're fascinating.
Claire: That's right.
Flyer: You're complex too.
Claire: Tell me about it.
Please act normally, Claire. Way way into the future, Claire meets someone who makes her feel silly for acting the way she does, and it is good for her. That's not for a while though.
Book 7 is the first in the series to name Lucas in the title, so I thought it would be the perfect time to address the terrible model choices for the covers of the books. Zoey is okay…at first. Zoey is described as a willowy blonde and the first few Zoey books feature a willowy blonde on the cover. At some point though, they replace original Zoey with a busty redhead. Why?
Zoey:
Not Zoey:
Benjamin wears Ray Bans, cover Benjamin wears John Lennon sunglasses. Book Aisha has an “explosion” of springy curls, cover Aisha sports what appears to be a crop.
Should this matter to me? No, probably not. Life hands me a crop, my brain has enough capacity to conjure a head of springy curls.
Does it matter to me? YES. I WANT THE COVERS TO ACCURATELY REFLECT THE CHARACTERS.
How hard would it have been to source a pair of Ray Bans or hand the Aisha model a wig? Gah! Anyway in the books Lucas is wiry and blonde, like the other guy from Magic Mike or…I dunno. Legolas from Lord of the Rings? Either way the guy on the front of this book is neither blonde nor wiry. Nowhere in the books does it say, “Lucas has dark hair and is at least 25, a bit like Ross from Friends”
Lucas:
Not Lucas:
Fave moments:
-Nina’s cafeteria comic strip and the following cafeteria food-related quote, "Well, the main course today seems to be paste studded with bits of dog food"
-Aisha and Zoey show up at Nina's house unexpectedly and catch her singing in bed, blithely sketching topless Benjamin.
-Nina and Claire getting ready to go out. Claire says maybe she'll steal Benjamin back if the thing with Jake goes south. Nina laughs and says, "Try it, you deluded halfwit" or something to that effect.
-"Aisha was not exactly embarrassing as a dancer, but close to it. She believed that underneath it all, dance was surely somehow a mathematical exercise that could be figured out by means of formulas..." Ha, I knew Aisha wasn't good enough to teach an Estonian to dance.
Where is Holly?:
-Who knows
Also:
-Looks like these books are being re-released this year in 2-book volumes as The Islanders to be enjoyed by a new generation! Aw.
February 21, 2015
This book was much dramatic! Especially in the last few chapters!
October 2, 2018
Update: I REALLY hate Claire. Why do they still consider her their friend after all she's done!?
P.s Lucas is trash!
P.s Lucas is trash!
April 19, 2015
I just love Claire so much :(
February 28, 2017
Feeling nostalgic for the books of my youth, I revisited Katherine Applegate and her Islanders omnibus editions (first released as the Making Out series way back in 1993. Yes, I am that old...).
While I found them to be overly-dramatic and a little bit cheesy on second reading, I think they would be loved by teenagers today. YA has taken a much-welcome step in the sphere of fantasy, science fiction and Dystopia, largely, in recent years so for teenagers looking for the traditional romance novels filled with teen-angst and buried secrets, these are a good series to turn to. A little bit Dawson's Creek in it's setting and it's drama, The Islanders is the perfect teen soap opera.
While I found them to be overly-dramatic and a little bit cheesy on second reading, I think they would be loved by teenagers today. YA has taken a much-welcome step in the sphere of fantasy, science fiction and Dystopia, largely, in recent years so for teenagers looking for the traditional romance novels filled with teen-angst and buried secrets, these are a good series to turn to. A little bit Dawson's Creek in it's setting and it's drama, The Islanders is the perfect teen soap opera.
July 8, 2020
Another angst ridden installment of the series. Claire still being Claire and causing all the trouble. Still love Nina and Ben they are fab together.
March 20, 2022
Well this had all the action. Whatever next
April 11, 2022
Sooooo good!!!!!! Cant wait to dive into the last book
July 20, 2022
Another reread of a classic series I first read when I was like 13.
April 4, 2024
I still don't care about Aisha and Christopher.
Also Claire, you're an idiot.
Also Claire, you're an idiot.
December 6, 2023
I remember being obsessed with this series when I was 14! I made my mom buy me all 29 books (in Germany a 29th book was published, there is no English translation) after borrowing the first one from my then-best friend.
Looking back, the plots got wilder and wilder with time: A lost half-sister, Claire's stalker, Ben miraculously being able to see again etc. I don't think I would enjoy it as much now as I did ten years ago, but it will only have a special place in my heart.
Looking back, the plots got wilder and wilder with time: A lost half-sister, Claire's stalker, Ben miraculously being able to see again etc. I don't think I would enjoy it as much now as I did ten years ago, but it will only have a special place in my heart.
December 10, 2008
I read this series when I was about 12 years old and from what I remember I absolutely loved it. It was the Twighlight of the 90's as far as I was concerned. Instead of being mostly romantic though these books were mostly humorous.
January 9, 2017
diese Buchreihe hat mich während meiner Teeniezeit begleitet. ich habe sie so geliebt...
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