Lizard Flanagan, Supermodel??

by Carol Gorman

Elizabeth “Lizard” Flanagan couldn't care less about the contest to model in the Spring Pines Fashion Show. Tomboy Lizard can't understand why anyone would want to parade around in front of a bunch of staring strangers--especially in a dress. So when someone secretly enters her in the contest and she's chosen as a finalist, it's a nightmare come true! Is there any way out? Or is Lizard Flanagan destined to be the first hiccuping supermodel in history? In this fast and funny sequel to The Miraculous Makeover of Lizard Flanagan (an ABA Pick of the Lists), veteran author Carol Gorman shows how a spunky tomboy can conquer her fears'and take the fashion world by storm!

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Carol Gorman is an Iowa-born writer of over 40 published books. She spent 17 years teaching in middle-school, high-school, and college classes. Her writing time has been devoted to creating mystery and suspense novels for children.

She originally aspired to be an actress, and while studying at the University of Iowa, was cast in the lead of both West Side Story and Peter Pan. In the 1980s, Carol married writer Edward Gorman, who inspired her to write. She conducts writers’ workshops at elementarys, middle schools and high schools, and enjoys talking to students about writing and publishing.

Reviews

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

The girl you see in this picture is called "Lizard" Flangan she looks about sixteen but she is not,her real age is twelve.Lizard is a tomboy that love sports and plays baseball,in fact she has to enter in this fashion show because she wants to go see Mark Grace(a famous baseball player) in Wrigley Field.Little does she know she has been secretly entered to a Pine Fashion Show in her school.She doesn't like fashion shows but the only reason she entered it was because she needed fifty dollars to go to Wrigely field and she still had to pay her parents twenty-four dollars in debt with her parents and her parents don't want to get her deeper with one more dollar in dept.
She then see's her list of cloths she has to wear and in the paper it says a swimsuit.She feels like she got the wrong paper and she needs to talk to mrs.Landers about the "mistake" in her paper.The fashion show isn't going to play on her so easy she will pass through opsticles such as breaking her wrist getting in fights and humiliation.Talking about humiliations mrs.Landers told her to get a bra and that was a huge deal for Lizard because she was totally flat that was the reason why mrs.Landers wanted Lizard to model in the swimsuit mrs.Landers thought Lizard had the athletic body and it would represent the girls in a swiming program.One day before the fashion show she was scared she would have the hiccups in fourth grade.Lizard did not want to pass through that ever again and little does she know she will get the hiccups but with a little surprise her hiccups fade away.The hiccups went away by a kiss by her boyfriend Zack and she didn't know that was a way to take away her hiccups.

[Lauren Super · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wasn't expecting much from this and was pleasantly surprised! I chose to read it because working at my library's circulation desk I see it go in and out quite a bit. Lizard's 6th grade experience reminds me much more of my middle school than those I see depicted in books like The Clique or Gossip Girl...there is still some innocence and not even the in-crowd is decked from head to toe in Juicy Couture. I especially liked the innocence of the romance between Lizard and Zach and found the dialogue authentic. The book covers many common concerns of this age group from stage fright to picking out a first bra.