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Carolyn Mackler

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Sometimes it takes getting hit with a hockey puck to help you see what’s good for you! Carolyn Mackler is back — and V is off on a solo road trip — in this funny, poignant follow-up to VEGAN VIRGIN VALENTINE.

V Valentine is the queen of meaningless hookups. Ever since her mom dumped her with her grandparents, she has bounced from guy to guy. But in the spring of senior year, a fateful hockey puck lands her in the lap of Sam Almond. Right from the start, things with Sam are different. V is terrified to admit it, but this might be meaningful after all. On the afternoon of graduation, V receives some shocking news. Later, at a party, she makes an irreversible mistake and risks losing Sam forever. When her mom invites her to Texas, V embarks on a cross-country road trip with the hopes of putting two thousand miles between herself, Sam, and the wreckage of that night. With her trademark blend of humor and compassion, Carolyn Mackler takes readers on an unforgettable ride of missed exits, misadventures, and the kind of epiphanies that come only when you’re on a route you’ve never taken before.

The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things

Carolyn Mackler

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Total reviews: 106 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Pulls Off a Well-Rounded Story 4 out of 5 stars.
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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, written by Carolyn Mackler, is a book that will not only appeal to people who are different from what the "normal or perfect" image of what a person should be but to anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong. Not only does it show you that it is okay to be different but it also shows how you can be your own person away from your family and/or friends. It is an inspirational story that could very easily be a true story for someone in the world even though it is fiction. No matter what you look like or what you feel you can easily connect with one of the many diverse characters in this story. Whether it is the main character Virginia Shreves, her brother Byron, Froggy Welsh the Fourth, or any of the other vastly different characters. All in all this is an excellent book.
The story starts with you finding out about Virginia's life and everything that has been taking place in it recently. However, the plot quickly moves away from something that sounds like a journal into a well thought out novel. The conflict is quickly presented and the rest of the story keeps up the pace through the rest of the book. You see Virginia in many different stages of accepting herself and not thinking that the rest of her family is perfect. From "everything would be better if I would just disappear" to "I can't/won't believe my brother did that" and then ending in a happiness that she finds in herself. The story line pulls you in from the first sentence at the beginning of the book and keeps you glued to every page until the very last period of the book.
Overall I thought this book was extremely interesting and well written. It had a good balance of what Virginia is thinking and what others are saying about her or about her family. Mackler made the character, Virginia, likable and just made her seem like a real person with real problems. Anyone who reads this book will most likely have different idea about what ideal and perfect means after they finish the book. I definitely recommend this book to every person who has ever felt like they don't belong or feels inferior to others.

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Virginia Shreves has a "larger-than-average" body and a medium-sized inferiority complex. Her mum is an exercise fiend, her dad whistles at skinny women, and her siblings are gorgeous, clever, and impossible to live up to. They're all people Virginia thinks the world of. In fact, Virginia thinks the world of everyone but herself. Then, a phone call changes everything...

Love and Other Four-Letter Words

Carolyn Mackler

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Total reviews: 95 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Until this summer, the biggest problems 16-year-old Samantha Davis faced were her embarrassingly large breasts, (nicknamed "the Grand Tetons after those mountains in Wyoming,") and the fact that her gorgeous best friend, Kitty, always made her feel like a Plain Jane: "It sounds awful, but if you saw a Jaguar and a Ford Taurus parked next to each other, which one would you want to drive?" But now Sammie's parents are splitting, and suddenly she is being assaulted by changes from every direction. She is forced to move from upstate New York to Manhattan, play nursemaid to her depressed mother, and suffer the utter boredom of not knowing anyone in a city of 8 million. But then she meets Eli, the cute "crunchy granola" son of her mom's friend, and Phoebe, the quirky girl in Central Park who categorizes people by the dog breed they resemble. Exposure to the urban scene, new friendships, and a developing sense of self cause Sammie to realize "that along with love comes other four-letter words. Like hate, obviously.... And gain. And most important, grow."

Like other recently published first novelists Lori Aurelia Williams (When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune) and Cat Bauer, (Harley: Like a Person), Carolyn Mackler convincingly captures all the drama, longing, and humor of 21st-century female adolescence. Fresh, funny, and completely irreverent, Love and Other Four-Letter Words is destined to find a place in the hearts of teenaged girls. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

Vegan Virgin Valentine

Carolyn Mackler

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Total reviews: 33 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

not award winning, but fun 3 out of 5 stars.
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Many of the reviews on this book talk about it in a negative light, some are well-worded, and others miss the "point" of the story completely. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I feel that this book should have at least a few positive statements on it.

It's not a fantastic book, I've read better in this genre, and out of this genre there are better books, but I think for anybody who is just willing to sit back and escape their world for a while, it's a perfect book for that- which is what a book should be.
The story, as noted in other reviews is about a straight A high school student who, with the onset of her niece coming to live with her family and a new romantic relationship, is forced to re-evaluate why she wants to be valedictorian, and have enough college credits to begin college as a sophomore. It's your basic over-achiever who overcomes who she is "suppose" to be, to become who she really is.

There aren't any major revelations, when reading it, you know the course is inevitable and there aren't any major plot twists, but what makes the book entertaining is the language it's written in. It's not brilliant, but its a fast read, and fun- some parts can be laugh out loud funny if you're just willing to go along with it. I'd recommend it to anybody who just wants to sit back and be mildly amused for a few hours- not people looking for deeper meaning or characters with deep human complex emotions- what you get is on the page, and not a whole lot more, but I don't want my 4 hours back that it took to read it, so I feel like in the end, it was worth it.

Editorial Review:

"Warmth and humor suffuse the story of Mara's senior-year transformation from tense, rigid perfectionist to relaxed, centered graduate. . . . Funny and optimistic." — KIRKUS REVIEWS

Mara Valentine is in control. She's a straight-A senior, a vegan, and her parents' pride and joy. She's neck-and-neck with her womanizing ex-boyfriend for number-one class ranking and plans to kick his salutatorian butt on her way out the door to Yale. Mara has her remaining months in Brockport all planned out, but the plan does not include having V, her slutty, pot-smoking, sixteen-year-old niece - yes, niece - come to live with her family. Nor does it involve lusting after her boss or dreaming about grilled cheese sandwiches every night. What does a control freak like Mara do when things start spinning wildly out of control? With insight, authenticity, and a healthy dose of humor, Carolyn Mackler creates an evolving Type A heroine that every reader will recognize - and root for.

Three Teen-Ages: Tales of Teenage Life in the Past, Present and the Future

Donna Jo Napoli, Carolyn Mackler, Anderson M.T.

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"The Daughter of Venice", "The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things" and "Feed" each tell a different story of life for teenagers in different eras. It is an eclectic mix of topics such as an escape from a constricted life, weighty and weight issues at home and consumerism set in the future.