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"Get a girlfriend in two months . . . do us a favor!" When our young hero takes up the crazy challenge laid down by his best mate Rich to find a girlfriend by the end of the summer, nothing seems simpler. He's a street-wise, smart kinda guy—and boy meets girl; boy wins bet, right? So why does he feel like everything he does ends in disaster? After a series of catastrophic failures at attracting the opposite sex and with time running out, our hero finally realizes that finding a girlfriend really isn't that hard, if you know where to look.
179 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2002
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January 15, 2018
Middle-Grade fluff.
This is, literally, a collection of short stories featuring 3 main characters that have not been fleshed out enough, a couple of forgettable side characters, and a single thread of a plot line that ties them all together.
It’s not really good. The writing is juvenile, even for a middle-grade novel. The stories try to pack a lot of things in at one time, but fail because everything is so fast pace.
I do like the way boys are portrayed in this book though. Here, it’s well shown that boys can have and worry about style and not be seen as unmanly or ‘gay’ (for use of a better word). The ‘Drag Queen Contest’ could have been handled a bit better; it seemed to me more of a mockery of famous women then anything else.
TL;DR- It’s been on my shelf for about 3 years because I got it really cheap, and it, finally, served its purpose. Bad writing, short adventures but good way of portraying boys who care about style and self-grooming (even though it kinda is just to get girls). Won’t be picking up again anytime soon.
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This is, literally, a collection of short stories featuring 3 main characters that have not been fleshed out enough, a couple of forgettable side characters, and a single thread of a plot line that ties them all together.
It’s not really good. The writing is juvenile, even for a middle-grade novel. The stories try to pack a lot of things in at one time, but fail because everything is so fast pace.
I do like the way boys are portrayed in this book though. Here, it’s well shown that boys can have and worry about style and not be seen as unmanly or ‘gay’ (for use of a better word). The ‘Drag Queen Contest’ could have been handled a bit better; it seemed to me more of a mockery of famous women then anything else.
TL;DR- It’s been on my shelf for about 3 years because I got it really cheap, and it, finally, served its purpose. Bad writing, short adventures but good way of portraying boys who care about style and self-grooming (even though it kinda is just to get girls). Won’t be picking up again anytime soon.
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April 5, 2014
very juvenile for my taste... not that I'm not fond of kid stuff/literature but I really did not enjoyed this one as I hoped it to be.. well too bad for me I guess ;(
September 3, 2016
I expected way more from this book. I was gonna give it 2 stars but the humor and jokes were really good, it deserved more than that.
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