Melissa’s Reviews > Sixteen: Stories about That Sweet and Bitter Birthday > Status Update
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In the last part of Cowgirls and Indie boys, Sulk is finally allowed to go to a party with Gemma and the bees. They gave her a makover and dressed her up like a cowgirl to be ready to kiss the guy they picked out for her. But then Gemma lashes out out of nowhere once she sees Sulk all dressed up under the command of Carmen. As Sulk was going to go on her date, she saw Gemma sitting by a tree and sat down next to her.
— May 04, 2020 01:11PM
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Melissa
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In the section "Fifteen going on..." Jessica is getting yelled at because her mom doesn't believe that Hope is her best friend, and instead thinks that Bridget is. Hope is the kindest and most caring friend of Jessica's meanwhile Bridget and her stopped being friends because she became too bossy. Her best friend is going to be leaving soon, so today is the last day that she can see her, so she runs to her house.
— May 18, 2020 10:26AM
Melissa
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In the section "The mud and fever dialogue", Pyrrho gets sick in the summer for a couple of weeks. This changes his whole life right in front of his family. He tried to get bitten by wild dogs, tried to drown, fall off a cliff, eat things that would make him throw up blood, sit in the sun to get dehydrated etc. This was a way of his "philosophy", he exclaimed. Finally, his brother knocked sense into him in the mud.
— May 11, 2020 10:12AM
Melissa
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Sulk explains how her and Gemma became friends when they were younger because Gemma was British and Sulk learned British English in India so they got along. Sulk finally convinced her parents to let her go to a party and have fun with a guy the ''Bees" set up for her.
— Apr 27, 2020 01:25PM
Melissa
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There is an Indian girl named Suzy and she is going to turn 16, but has never been kissed before. Adding on to that, her best friend Gemma got accepted into the "Bees" (popular group of people) and is acting really cold toward Suzy. Her parents won't let her go to parties because they think that only bad things will happen, but she only wants to go have fun with her friends.
— Apr 20, 2020 10:54AM
Melissa
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In this part of the book Emma has mono, got a bike instead of a car and her boyfriend cheated on her with two girls on her birthday. Her friend tells her that her sweet sixteen is coming up, but Emma still has mono. Over the next days she heals and is able to go to her friends Sweet. She sees Jordan there and as she goes over there he apologizes and kisses her, but she realizes that he isn't worth her time anymore.
— Apr 06, 2020 12:45PM
Melissa
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This girl Emma is the unluckiest girl in the world when it comes to her birthday. Every single birthday something always goes wrong from Disney World cancelation because of the frozen pipes to slamming her finger on a door and having to go to the ER. She is talking about how everyone is going to a party in Miami but she is stuck with her mom for the whole weekend by herself.
— Feb 24, 2020 07:32AM
Melissa
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This section called Nebraska 99, the main character is a girl that has a baby at the age of 16. It goes into detail about how she lives life, living with her boyfriend Tommy, since her mom kicked her out and her 20 month baby named TJ. The "dead girls" are a group of her friends that are also pregnant and in the same situation but are 18. They help her out with buying cheap food and clothes for TJ to be happy.
— Feb 10, 2020 07:32AM
Melissa
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This part of the book is called Kissing Lessons. It is about how this guy who goes to play camp and gets embarrased, when on the final kiss he tired to kiss the girl in the play and he ended up biting her lip. His friends Manon then tells him that she got him lessons from a girl which helps him out when he found out that he had been a natural. Manon, who lived in New York, moved to Chicago to go to school with him.
— Feb 03, 2020 07:31AM
Melissa
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A tourist from Florida named Francesca or Fran for short, is in Venice, Italy for her birthday. She is exploring a muesum all alone by herself, because she likes to study Frescos type of art). She then bumps into a guy named Marco there and he instantly catches her eye. They explored around Italy to a place he wanted to show her. He showed her to the library, which lead him to kiss her under the ceiling of a mural.
— Jan 27, 2020 07:29AM
Melissa
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In this part of the book called Venetian Fan, it is this girl's 16th birthday. She is feeling all alone and lonely, because she has never kissed anyone before. As a guy walks past her, he asks if she is into art and they immediately bonded. He took her to look at Frescos (type of painting) and it was like a first date.
— Dec 10, 2019 07:59AM
