Overall Grade: B-
Delacorte, July 2009
In her Junior year of highschool, Ruby Oliver has a lot to deal with, mostly concerning her own confusing feelings about the boys in her school, but also her own confusing feelings about her friends, her ex-friends, and a cutesy bake-sale that she wants to un-cutesy-fy. Basically, she has the problems of any teenager…only…probably a little weirder than just any teenager.
e. lockhart created a very funny and believable character in Ruby, though the secondary characters are a little harder to swallow at times. The book was easy to read as well as entertaining, in a sort of after-school sitcom kind of way: it was funny, but they’re not gonna be doing reruns five years from now. If you like this type of book, enjoy it while it lasts.
Literary Quality: C (Trust me, the author didn’t even try to make this a literary novel)
Plot: C
Voice: A
Originality: B
Descriptive Ability: B
Humor: A
Illustrations: n/a
Believability of Characters: A
Believability of Situations: A-
Overall Reading Enjoyment: B
Possibly objectionable topics*: crude language, sexuality, mental health issues
Delacorte, July 2009
In her Junior year of highschool, Ruby Oliver has a lot to deal with, mostly concerning her own confusing feelings about the boys in her school, but also her own confusing feelings about her friends, her ex-friends, and a cutesy bake-sale that she wants to un-cutesy-fy. Basically, she has the problems of any teenager…only…probably a little weirder than just any teenager.
e. lockhart created a very funny and believable character in Ruby, though the secondary characters are a little harder to swallow at times. The book was easy to read as well as entertaining, in a sort of after-school sitcom kind of way: it was funny, but they’re not gonna be doing reruns five years from now. If you like this type of book, enjoy it while it lasts.
Literary Quality: C (Trust me, the author didn’t even try to make this a literary novel)
Plot: C
Voice: A
Originality: B
Descriptive Ability: B
Humor: A
Illustrations: n/a
Believability of Characters: A
Believability of Situations: A-
Overall Reading Enjoyment: B
Possibly objectionable topics*: crude language, sexuality, mental health issues
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