First Fight

Head Over Heels #3

by Lea Taddonio, Mina Price (Illustrations)

Lola Jones has strong feelings for star basketball player C.J Kline. But when her big brother finds out, the couple might be torn apart for good. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Genres: Romance

ebook

Published December 15, 2016

Reviews

[Sherry Scheline]

At first I wanted to give this book a 1 star review because I was like this is weird. It is a picture book that is only 49 pages and one would think by a glance that it is for a 1st-2nd grader. It is really a book for an upper middle school child or high school student. I raised my review to a 3 because I read a few additional books from this series and I got thinking that once you are past judging the book by just a tiny bit more than the cover it is o.k. If you had a junior high student or high school student that was perhaps struggling with reading and you wanted to assign a chapter book for them, this book would be a good read because of the simplicity.
It is certainly not award winning writing, but the illustrations are actually o.k. I was just a bit put off by the slightly more mature subject matter than appears by first glance. Also the book is on EPIC and marked for 3rd graders. A 3rd grade child could read it, but it is pretty mature content. Kissing, relationships, school dances, dating, etc...



Also I do not like that she betrayed her brother. That was strange.

[Jahmier · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the book could have been better because the girl betrayed her brother and he simply told her not to date anyone on his BBALL team and she did but I also think it was kind of good because the girl over became her fear and spoke up for herself.

[Nam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I haven't been enjoying this series, but I really loved the argument made by Joseph. "She might make me crazy, but family is family." That is a beautiful, realistic sibling relationship.

[Maria Simoza · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit boring but it could be worse.