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The Fosters: Keep Your Frenemies Close
As a companion to ABC Family's show The Fosters, this first book in a potential series takes place over a weekend community service/extra school credit trip Callie is required to take in order to boost her history grade. To complicate things, she's thrown together with Talya and the forced relationship between Callie and Talya takes a series of turns over the course of the book. Also, the relationships with the other kids on the weekend trip -- a new cast of characters which will be ongoing in the book series -- both create tension as well as draw Callie and Talya together. Ultimately, they see each other as something other than rivals and find they have more in common than they'd thought.
- GenresLGBTYoung Adult
161 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 27, 2015
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January 31, 2015I WANT THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW
I LOVE THE FOSTERS is my favorite TV show
I LOVE THE FOSTERS is my favorite TV show
July 13, 2015
Fue una historia corta que en sí, estuvo muy poco conectada a la serie y no aporta nada que necesitamos saber para seguir viendola (hasta el momento), sólo un fin de semana, Callie conociendo nuevos amigos y así. La trama fue muy sencilla y el desarrollo lento, dado que el transcurso del tiempo aquí es de apenas 3 días.
Si gustan mucho de la serie si vale la pena leerlo, te conecta más con una Callie de la segunda temporada mas o menos.
Si gustan mucho de la serie si vale la pena leerlo, te conecta más con una Callie de la segunda temporada mas o menos.
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March 25, 2016My Independent Reading Book Project
The book, The Fosters: Keep Your Frenemies Close by Stacy Kravetz, was a phenomenal spin off of the series The Fosters. After discovering this book, I began to wonder what the story was going to be about. Callie discovers more than just community work. She works with people she’s never met before, learns what it’s like outdoors, and helps out the environment.
“I just found out I have to do this lame community service project to make up for all the school I missed in Girls United,” Callie says in the beginning of the book on page 14. Callie finds out that she has to do a community service project in order to pass the school year. When she found this out, she was upset and thought it wasn’t fair that the only two options she had was to do the project or repeat the grade. After her foster mom, Lena, discussed the situation that needed to be done, she chose a park service program as a challenge for Callie.
Callie starts to realize that working with others isn’t that bad. Gracie and Riley are private school students who are attending the trip for extra credit on the GPA scores. Callie, Gracie, and Riley form a close bond together which helps out Callie to actually get through this project. There’s also a boy named Austin who Callie is starting to like. Then there’s Talya, Brandon Foster’s ex girlfriend. Talya and Callie have an awkward encounter when they see that they are both in the program together, which forces them to make friends and get along.
As the awkwardness goes on, they both start to become friends. After meeting Austin, that friendship starts to go back to the way it was. Talya told Callie that she liked him, but after one night at a party, Talya started acting weird around him and wouldn’t tell Callie what happened. While Callie was working on making stairs by digging holes, Austin came over and told her that she needed to put a little more effort into her work. After realizing that he was actually trying to help her, she gained more trust in him. They ended up telling each other why they were both in the program. Callie soon started having feelings for him and was worried that Talya was going to get upset.
Callie started to realize that this trip wasn’t as awful as she thought it was going to be. After working through drama with Talya, she began to see the difference in people when they are put in a place where they have to do hard work with other people who’ve never met before. I loved this book and I loved the way the author got the character of Callie spot on.
The book, The Fosters: Keep Your Frenemies Close by Stacy Kravetz, was a phenomenal spin off of the series The Fosters. After discovering this book, I began to wonder what the story was going to be about. Callie discovers more than just community work. She works with people she’s never met before, learns what it’s like outdoors, and helps out the environment.
“I just found out I have to do this lame community service project to make up for all the school I missed in Girls United,” Callie says in the beginning of the book on page 14. Callie finds out that she has to do a community service project in order to pass the school year. When she found this out, she was upset and thought it wasn’t fair that the only two options she had was to do the project or repeat the grade. After her foster mom, Lena, discussed the situation that needed to be done, she chose a park service program as a challenge for Callie.
Callie starts to realize that working with others isn’t that bad. Gracie and Riley are private school students who are attending the trip for extra credit on the GPA scores. Callie, Gracie, and Riley form a close bond together which helps out Callie to actually get through this project. There’s also a boy named Austin who Callie is starting to like. Then there’s Talya, Brandon Foster’s ex girlfriend. Talya and Callie have an awkward encounter when they see that they are both in the program together, which forces them to make friends and get along.
As the awkwardness goes on, they both start to become friends. After meeting Austin, that friendship starts to go back to the way it was. Talya told Callie that she liked him, but after one night at a party, Talya started acting weird around him and wouldn’t tell Callie what happened. While Callie was working on making stairs by digging holes, Austin came over and told her that she needed to put a little more effort into her work. After realizing that he was actually trying to help her, she gained more trust in him. They ended up telling each other why they were both in the program. Callie soon started having feelings for him and was worried that Talya was going to get upset.
Callie started to realize that this trip wasn’t as awful as she thought it was going to be. After working through drama with Talya, she began to see the difference in people when they are put in a place where they have to do hard work with other people who’ve never met before. I loved this book and I loved the way the author got the character of Callie spot on.
February 9, 2015
Love this show, but this book doesn't even read like it's about the same people.
June 20, 2024
It wasn’t as good as I was hoping, but it got really good at chapter 17 till the end.
March 23, 2017
Really good and quick read! It was just like watching an unaired episode of The Fosters!
November 7, 2015
When I first laid eyes on this book standing on display in my local library I totally freaked out. Then I brought it home and read it. Then I freaked out in the most negative way possible. SPOILER ALERT!!! (not like there is anything good in this "novel" anyway. The first major problem I have with this book is the paradoxes. I am constantly telling myself that Callie would never act this way and then other times I find myself saying "Oh wow that is so Callie." however, most of the time my primary reaction is: "Wow...did this Kravetz lady ever even watch The Fosters?" Callie in the book, this "book" in which I will never call a "novel", comes off as pretentious yet, stupid. She is she is portrayed as someone who is trying to be on the straight and narrow yet she is seen kissing boys and sneaking shots of booze. This is not the Callie that we have come to know and love. Nextly, the book is about Callie. Only about Callie. Just Callie. It is no secret that Callie is a favorite character of most people who watch the show and some may even argue that the show is centered on Callie. However the show would be uninteresting and unwatchable if it was only about her and that is what the book does. It is only about Callie so it then becomes boring and thus unreadable. My OCD is only to blame as to why I finished the book and is the only thing that stopped me from slamming the pages shut when I had the chance. The book, though didnt bring up many family members primary stuck with the relationship of Brandon and Callie; which is everyone's favorite part of the show but isn't the whole show.The author does talk about the importance of family which becomes ironic because only the IDEA of family is mentioned; not them directly. This book just reeks of TEEN ANGST and should come with a warning label stating such. Some of you may identify Callie with Teen angst but that is the last thing I identify her with. Callie is not angsty. Callie is anything but. Kravetz paints a whole different Callie for us that I don't even reckoning. None of you will. This is not Callie. I had a lot of problems with the book in terms of syntax and diction however the last few chapters were the most baffling and disgusting excerpts of literature that I have ever been denounced to read. The Fosters has been pegged as the biggest, most successful LGBT show on television but that wasn't the whole premise of the show. The show was to give insight to the LGBT community but not insult it. This book totally insulted and undermined the whole premise of the show. Just because Callie is a by-product of Lesbian fosters parents the other characters treat her as though she is just an expert on the LGBT community. There is a girl in the story that admits that she is in love with her best friend and she opens up to Callie about it despite knowing Callie for that long. WHY?! why would this be the ending of the book. Kravetz turns the whole "gay is okay" theme of the show into a joke. Not everything and everyone pertaining to the fosters has to be gay. I really need to watch the episodes over again. I need to be exposed to some good writing. If goodreads had negative stars, I would use them.
December 30, 2022
Although I love the show, this book just didn’t give what I wanted it to. Not that it was a particularly bad story, just not for me.
March 1, 2015
I liked this "spin-off" of The Fosters series. However, I recommand this book for people watching the show already because the author picks elements that occured during the show.
I loved Callie (of course), Max, curiously I also started to like Talya and Riley, too. However, I didn't like Austin at all.
Keep Your Frenemies Close is a quick and a easy reading.
I loved Callie (of course), Max, curiously I also started to like Talya and Riley, too. However, I didn't like Austin at all.
Keep Your Frenemies Close is a quick and a easy reading.
February 27, 2016
I loved this book. It had the same characters as the tv show series the fosters, but the storyline was completely different. It is a must read for any fans of the tv show The Fosters. I hope they come out with more books in the series in the future.
January 31, 2015
Really good! if you love the fosters i rec this book. it was a nice tie in to the series and great introduction of more characters. hope we get more in this series!
March 21, 2023
I was a huge fan of the Fosters so I thought this fan fiction would be great. My advice? Don’t waste your time reading this.
January 13, 2016
Awesome book, really relates back to the show!
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