Maddy: Girls Like You

Girls Like You #4

by Kate Petty

Four girls, four lives, one summer. It was Maddy's idea that all four of them should have holiday romances and report back at the end of the summer. This is the story of Maddy, the drama queen, on holiday in Barbados and about to put on the performance of her life for the man she thinks she wants.

Genres: Young Adult

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Writer/Editor Kate Petty (born Katharine Chapman) was the innovative author of more than two hundred books for children, including fiction, nonfiction, and picture books. Her award-winning pop-up books with illustrator Jennie Maizels and her collaborations with the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, are among her most popular works.

She died at age 55 from cancer.

Reviews

[Felicity · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used to love reading Maddy a lot when I was at my first boarding school and it has always been one of my favourites in the series.

It is Maddy's idea to have a holiday romance. She wants a proper man like Mr Darcy and for once she has a chance as her dad is taking her to Barbados for 2 weeks. Maddy has a difficult home life as her mother is fickle with men and they are usually tight financially. In Barbados she meets someone but there are complications and some sad moments.

I always loved the exotic location and still want to go to Barbados! Maddy is a sweetheart and is very much in to the Arts which I identify with. However she has a difficult home life and has some difficult times during this book which Petty sometimes turns in to black comedy. This one is very readable and I love the fact that Maddy meets Holly who we find out more about in another book!

[Claire Convery · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Girls Like You Series was the first series I ever rad when I was 12! I still have the books somewhere in the recess of one of my bookcases they will g to my nices when they are old enough. They are all good read's sweet,funny and well witten to the target audience (pre-teen/early teens).

[Maddy Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was only a preview and I don't know how to get the full version with out buying this. I need this book because I bought it and many pages were ripped out at the end of chapter six and I was wondering can someone just have chapter six as another preview please!! Thanks if you can

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another book in the Girls Like You Series.