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Girl Talk #7
Odd Couple
Not eggs-actly friends. . .
Straight-A student and Student Council member Mark Wright and super-hip Randy Zak don't exactly see eye to eye. But when a school project makes them "parents" of an egg, Randy and Mark discover that they have much more in common than they thought.
Straight-A student and Student Council member Mark Wright and super-hip Randy Zak don't exactly see eye to eye. But when a school project makes them "parents" of an egg, Randy and Mark discover that they have much more in common than they thought.
121 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1990
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July 19, 2007
These series by LE Blair were my good companion through my adolescent years back in the early 90ies.I just loved every single one of them, including this one.
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March 18, 2025it's been decades since i read these books, but i enjoyed them a lot as a kid. i had the Girl Talk game and played it constantly, and i was so excited when i saw that there was a book series inspired by it.
i have been having a bit of a nostalgia trip lately by revisiting some of the original Fear Street books; tonight, this series came to mind again (which seems to have happened once a decade or so over the past 30-plus years).
the main things i recall: there's a girl called Sabrina, another called Randy; and one of the books was about parenting an egg.
bingo, we have the winner.
thank you, goodreads, for validating my memory; i was beginning to wonder if i'd imagined it all. XD
[posted 18 March 2025]
i have been having a bit of a nostalgia trip lately by revisiting some of the original Fear Street books; tonight, this series came to mind again (which seems to have happened once a decade or so over the past 30-plus years).
the main things i recall: there's a girl called Sabrina, another called Randy; and one of the books was about parenting an egg.
bingo, we have the winner.
thank you, goodreads, for validating my memory; i was beginning to wonder if i'd imagined it all. XD
[posted 18 March 2025]
February 28, 2009
I read these when I was about nine. There is a character named Randy, who has spiky hair and a skateboard, and she was pretty much my hero.
June 24, 2016
all books from this serial were with me in my childhood and puberty-time ;) and in that time it was great. One time...I will read it with my daughters
August 20, 2018
This was fine, not enough outfit descriptions.
July 5, 2022
It’s the obligatory Egg Project installment of the series 😴
April 2, 2018
Odd Couple Girl Talk 7
PLOT: Randy gets detention for wearing her walk man in class and bursting out singing. Amazingly she doesn't see why she should be punished for this. OKAAAY! But to her surprise among the regulars in walks Mark (whose like the golden boy of the school). You know the type: clean cut, straight A's, perfect hair, classical music playing, and on the student council. In other words Zack Morris (well minus the straight A's and the classical music). He gives her attitude and Randy throws it at him right back and decides off the bat he might be a "good boy" but he's a jerk. Meanwhile a new substitute teacher (a model) comes from New York and takes over health class. She gives them the old egg assignment where you pair up boys and girls and pretend the egg is a baby. Thus teaching kids the responsibilities of parenthood because you have to take the egg everywhere you go. Randy doesn't get a lot of help from Mark. Sabrina gets her brother Sam (who'd rather goof around all the time with the egg). Katie gets a guy whose too overprotective. Allison is the odd one out and has to raise her egg as a single mother. During the project Randy finds out the reason Mark is acting out and slacking on the project is because his own parents are going through a divorce.
MY THOUGHTS:
*Randy doesn't think it's right to be punished for listening to her Walkman in class? ??? At what school is it ok to do this?
RATING: 5 This book wasn't what I thought it was going to be. From the title "Odd Couple" I thought Randy was going to discover she liked Mark and they were going to date. Ok let's start with the acting out because your parents are divorced. When I was just out of elementary school my parents got divorced many years ago and it always amazes me that in books the kids get angry and act all out of character. I know not all kids react the same to different events but this is common in books like this. Either that or they get distant. I never remember feeling that way as a kid. I remember feeling sorrow over it because somehow I felt it was my fault my Dad was leaving but I don't think I turned into a straight up (ill just say monster and grew horns). Mouthing off to everyone I came across. As you get older you understand that some people just weren't meant to be together. As ideal as it is to have parents that stay together until they are called home it just isn't reality in all cases. And more and more these days people just don't stay together. I guess I'm a little jaded. Now the egg baby trick. I did it in high school. Only I don't remember having to do it with a partner. It was all individually based. Is it effective? Hmm. Well the class DID learn (the girls) hopefully that they just can't lay down with just anybody. Truthfully NONE of these guys seemed ready to bring children into the world if the way they handled the project was any indication. But I think that was the REAL lesson (or it should have been on the sly). You have to pick VERY carefully. That should have turned from a lesson about being a responsible parent to a lesson about sex and choosing the right partners or the dangers of what might feel good one night leading to something that's not worth it 9 months later with a partner that doesn't do their share, doesn't take it seriously, or will hardly let you breath in the parent-hood.
PLOT: Randy gets detention for wearing her walk man in class and bursting out singing. Amazingly she doesn't see why she should be punished for this. OKAAAY! But to her surprise among the regulars in walks Mark (whose like the golden boy of the school). You know the type: clean cut, straight A's, perfect hair, classical music playing, and on the student council. In other words Zack Morris (well minus the straight A's and the classical music). He gives her attitude and Randy throws it at him right back and decides off the bat he might be a "good boy" but he's a jerk. Meanwhile a new substitute teacher (a model) comes from New York and takes over health class. She gives them the old egg assignment where you pair up boys and girls and pretend the egg is a baby. Thus teaching kids the responsibilities of parenthood because you have to take the egg everywhere you go. Randy doesn't get a lot of help from Mark. Sabrina gets her brother Sam (who'd rather goof around all the time with the egg). Katie gets a guy whose too overprotective. Allison is the odd one out and has to raise her egg as a single mother. During the project Randy finds out the reason Mark is acting out and slacking on the project is because his own parents are going through a divorce.
MY THOUGHTS:
*Randy doesn't think it's right to be punished for listening to her Walkman in class? ??? At what school is it ok to do this?
RATING: 5 This book wasn't what I thought it was going to be. From the title "Odd Couple" I thought Randy was going to discover she liked Mark and they were going to date. Ok let's start with the acting out because your parents are divorced. When I was just out of elementary school my parents got divorced many years ago and it always amazes me that in books the kids get angry and act all out of character. I know not all kids react the same to different events but this is common in books like this. Either that or they get distant. I never remember feeling that way as a kid. I remember feeling sorrow over it because somehow I felt it was my fault my Dad was leaving but I don't think I turned into a straight up (ill just say monster and grew horns). Mouthing off to everyone I came across. As you get older you understand that some people just weren't meant to be together. As ideal as it is to have parents that stay together until they are called home it just isn't reality in all cases. And more and more these days people just don't stay together. I guess I'm a little jaded. Now the egg baby trick. I did it in high school. Only I don't remember having to do it with a partner. It was all individually based. Is it effective? Hmm. Well the class DID learn (the girls) hopefully that they just can't lay down with just anybody. Truthfully NONE of these guys seemed ready to bring children into the world if the way they handled the project was any indication. But I think that was the REAL lesson (or it should have been on the sly). You have to pick VERY carefully. That should have turned from a lesson about being a responsible parent to a lesson about sex and choosing the right partners or the dangers of what might feel good one night leading to something that's not worth it 9 months later with a partner that doesn't do their share, doesn't take it seriously, or will hardly let you breath in the parent-hood.
August 8, 2007
huhuhu, I thought I was Randy my self at that time...
(it was great to compare your self with someone in the book you love, you know)
(it was great to compare your self with someone in the book you love, you know)
November 12, 2007
I don't really remember how many books of the series I've read. What I remember is how nice the friendship of the characters have in the book. taught me much about giving without asking.
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February 5, 2009Being parents is not so easy.
June 15, 2009
Ya ampun, serial girl talk ini bacaan gw waktu SD, ceritanya abg abis, tapi lucu juga buat mengenang masa muda, hehe...
July 9, 2013
these books were like reading a diary each book was different though it was like you were in school again.
February 24, 2016
Again, read years ago when I was young.
March 27, 2015
great book.
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