The Cannibals: Starring Tiffany Spratt (Single Titles) [Hardcover]

Cynthia Grant (Author)

Book Description

Series: Single Titles | Publication Date: September 1, 2002

"Is it true that I'm just a big phony who doesn't notice anybody but herself, and wants life to be like TV, with everybody watching, and everything all beautiful and glittery? No. If that were true, this book would only have the good parts, not the parts where people are calling me a jerk." Triumph. Tears. Health & Beauty Tips. You'll find all this and more, in the story of Tiffany's life so far. Prepare to laugh aloud -- again and again!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Grant (Mary Wolf) takes a breather from her sobering YA fiction to serve up a trenchant satire. Set a decade or two in the future, the story is breathlessly narrated by headstrong 17-year-old Tiffany Spratt, who is videotaping her journal for a school assignment and for posterity, because she is certain she'll be famous. Right away she falls for a handsome new student whose name, Campbell, she mistakes for Cannibal, which she instantly decides to call her clique at Hiram Johnson High ("They should make a show about our school," she enthuses. "They could call it Hi High and it would be all about me and The Girls and our exciting adventures as cheerleaders, and Cannibal could play my boyfriend... and [my boyfriend] Wally will just have to get used to it").Tiffany's attempts to lure the ultra cool, highly principled Campbell into a "real" kiss run alongside her campaign to persuade the school board to allow a teen vampire film to be shot at her school she just knows it will be her big break. Grant points the finger at all sorts of "cannibals" in a culture of consumption, from commercial sponsors of school equipment to the totally outr‚ (e.g., the Jerry Springer-style talk show host is a former U.S. president) as she keeps Tiffany's slyly skewed platitudes flowing ("I know what it's like to feel hopeless... but every cloud has a silver lining, and it's always darkest before the storm"). A solid comedy with bite. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Grade 8 Up-A real send-up of a California cool blonde, Tiffany vapidly videotapes a journal in an attempt to fulfill an English assignment. She emphatically believes that the window of the soul is not the eyes, but the hair. As she becomes attracted to a handsome new student, Campbell, whose name she mishears as Cannibal, she has only nanoseconds to dwell on her official boyfriend, Wally. Campbell and Tiffany clash about vegetarianism, using animals for medical testing, and social values. Campbell complains that she never listens and that he feels like a mere accessory, while Tiffany plots to have her school used as the filming location for a shallow horror flick and thereby gain a speaking part. Wally, who has been exiled to a reform school in the jungle, reappears on the scene, and Campbell confides the real reason why he can never truly be her boyfriend. The characterization may be shallow, the satire rather broad, and the foreshadowing heavy, but The Cannibals is a hoot. Grant razzes lots of different social agendas. While the tone is quite the opposite of her Mary Wolf (Atheneum, 1995), many of the same social issues could be discussed. This one will be wildly popular.
Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press; First Edition edition (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761316426
• ISBN-13: 978-0761316428
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,490,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars great book!!, February 2, 2011

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E. Rozsa "<33333" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cannibals: Starring Tiffany Spratt (Single Titles) (Hardcover)

i loved the book so much, and the low price is just an added bonus :D

as for the usage of the word "like" in the book (which was previously adressed),
i think it was necessary to use it that often since it was written from a teenage girls'
point of view.
it also made the story more believable.

great book over all!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An upbeat, cheerful, and vibrant novel, January 11, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cannibals: Starring Tiffany Spratt (Single Titles) (Hardcover)

The Cannibals is an engaging narrative for young women by Cynthia D. Grant and tells the story of Tiffany Spratt, the popular star of a high school cheerleading squad who experienced one terrible day that sent her social life plummeting to the status of "reject of the Universe." Yet with help of her friends, her family, and her faith, Tiffany finds the inner strength to eventually earn success. An upbeat, cheerful, and vibrant novel, The Cannibals is highly recommended reading and would make a welcome addition to school and community library fiction collections for adolescent and young adult readers.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Book That You'll Never Forget, September 1, 2003

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Leigh Anne (Ga USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cannibals: Starring Tiffany Spratt (Single Titles) (Hardcover)

This book is a book that you will never forget. And I absolutely believe that. The reason is because they have to use the word "like" 10 gillion times. It gave me a complete headache and I don't think I will ever In my LIFE be able to read this book again, unless I was in a mental institution.