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The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life
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The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life |
Author: Lauren Myracle
Published: 2005-07-21 |
List price: $15.99
Our price: $9.53
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As of: October 11th, 2008 03:32:29 PM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 It is funny but bad.
The beginning is VERY funny, but then it starts swearing and talking about kissing, and worse. I stopped reading at chapter 3. I do NOT recommend this for middle-schoolers maybe for adults, but by then you will be to old for,"The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life."
 Wow, I'm so out of the loop.
I haven't been in seventh grade for a while, but are you sure this is what the majority of seventh graders are up to these days? My personal experience with kids tells me twelve-year-olds are more innocent and less malicious than the characters in the books are. I didn't really pay attention to any sexual references or bad words, but it did surprise me that a book for middle school kids would actually contain phrases like "Oh my God" and "for God's sake." I am by no means religious or offended, but I know authors for middle school kids had to stick with "Oh my gosh" and "for Pete's sake" when I was in seventh grade. The time it's a-changin'.
The writing itself is not bad. In fact, I picked up this book because I thought Lauren Myracle knew how to write for young readers (for disappointed parents, I would recommend her other book Eleven, which I thought was cute and more age-appropriate than this one). I had to skip all the IM conversations, though. I thought I could escape chatspeak when I'm not using the Internet, but apparently I was wrong. My main complaint is that the ending is a cliffhanger. See, that might work if you were writing the eighth book in the whole dear-diary series and you already have your loyal fans eagerly waiting for the next book, but it would probably be a wiser move to make the story more conclusive if you're only writing the first book.
All-in-all, something I would read for fun that I definitely wouldn't recommend to actual seventh-graders. I agree with the reviewer who said that kids may get mixed messages if they read this book. There should be more real consequences to every action that we know is bad and shouldn't do that we all do anyway.
 Nice
This book is pretty good. Not the best, but has a unique plot line, well-written story, and interesting characters with unique personalities. It's about a girl entering seventh grade with her mom's panties on her pants. The most popular girl (Rachel) in the grade defends her to everyone's surprise, and although the main character, Alli, realizes how unkind Rachel is in the end, Alli forgives all of the mistakes that Rachel makes throughout the book. The unique twist is that Alli's unpopular friend who has stuck with her thick and thin is exactly like Rachel, except she is unpopular. A fun read.
A Wonderful Read
The Fashion Disaster that Changed My Life
Are you looking for a book that has lots of realistic action? Stop right here! The book The Fashion Disaster That Changed my Life by, Lauren Myracle just might be the book for you! The main character, Alli has a fashion disaster on the first day of seventh grade. From that disaster comes people that claim to be her friends, but can she hold on to her old friends?! Well, I hope that you have the chance to find out by reading the book The Fashion Disaster that Changed My Life!
 This Book is So True.
I am in 7th grade and I can relate to everything that is going on in this book. To the parents that are complaining of the contents: Apparently you don't know what goes on during school. There is not one 7th grader that i know who hasn't said at least one of these 'bad words' or 'explicit things'. Get over it because your teenager is exposed to it everyday! Anyways, this book is worth more than 5 stars and kudos to Lauren Myracle!
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