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High school junior Jenny Greenley is good at solving other people's problems . . . so good she's the school newspapers' anonymous advice columnist. But when nineteen-year-old screen sensation Luke Striker comes to Jen's small town to reserach a role, he creates havoc that even levelheaded Jenny isn't sure she can repair . . . especially when he asks her, and not Jenny's Luke Striker-groupie best friend, to the Clayton High Spring Fling.
Can Jen, who always manages to be there for everybody else, learn to take her own advice, and find true love at last?
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Release date
July 27, 2004 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780739330838
- File size: 172385 KB
- Duration: 05:59:08
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.2
- Lexile® Measure: 860
- Interest Level: 6-12(MG+)
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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Reviews
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Jenny is always smoothing things over. She's the perfect person to write the "Ask Annie" column for the school paper. When Hollywood heartthrob Luke Striker poses as a student to research a role, Clayton High won't ever be the same, least of all Jenny. It's refreshing to listen to Elisabeth Moss's sweet, solid voice nail every nuance of adolescent conversation and thought process. Moss's narration supports Jenny by keeping the story with all its subplots focused on her character development. The background music and the radio gossip reports played in the background of the epilogue add originality to the production. J.M.S. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from August 30, 2004
Cabot (Princess Diaries
) revisits her Hoosier roots, taking something of a break from the glitzy world of Genovia's royalty. But not too much of a break, since this brisk and bubbly tale explores what happens when teen heartthrob Luke Striker attempts to spend a week posing as an ordinary high school student in a small Indiana town, in order to research his next movie role. Luke's host (and the novel's peppy narrator) is Jenny, a well-liked junior at Clayton High who has her own secrets: she anonymously pens "Ask Annie," the school paper's advice column, excerpts of which appear before each of the novel's chapters. And she nurses a half-acknowledged crush on the paper's editor, Scott, who is dating someone else. Shocked by the cruelty of real-life high school, Luke convinces Jenny to become a force for good—to no longer simply be everybody's pal but to champion the downtrodden (such as the school's least popular girl, Cara "Cow") and fight for what's right (the return of a favorite teacher's kidnapped Cabbage Patch doll). As a reward, of sorts, Luke promises to come back to town to take Jenny to the high school's Spring Fling. The down-to-earth high school setting, peopled with recognizable, fully realized characters and ably described by Jenny, provides a sturdy springboard for the over-the-top Hollywood plotline, which Cabot delivers with a wink. A snappy and fun read that is—no doubt—soon to be ready for its own close-up. Ages 12-up. -
August 29, 2005
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "Cabot's brisk and bubbly tale explores what happens when teen heartthrob Luke Striker attempts to spend a week posing as an ordinary high school student in a small Indiana town." Ages 12-up.
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