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High schooler Annalise's current life consists of dodging mean girls, obsessing over her favorite band, and maintaining an online friendship with a sympathetic boy. The boy turns out to be the fabrication of the same mean girls, but Annalise gets her happy ending anyway. This breezy novel may appeal to readers who like the melodrama of adolescence and don't mind unrealistic plotting and characters.
346 pp.
| Hyperion
| September, 2006
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TradeISBN 0-7868-3852-3$15.99
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YA
Rachel is thrilled when a gorgeous non-Jew (aptly named Luke Christiansen) wants to be her boyfriend, though she worries that her family won't approve. Eventually Rachel learns that Luke isn't that great anyway, and begins to notice the Jewish boy-next-door. Rachel's voice is engaging, if overdramatic, and readers will want her to succeed.