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Mates, Dates and Cosmic Kisses [With Earbuds] (Playaway Children)

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"Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses" By Cathy Hopkins relates to the ups and downs of love. We have all been there! The suspence, the hours waiting by the phone so as not to miss that oh-so-important phone call! This book takes you through it all with Izzie, a horoscope crazed girl with a new love in her life, Mark, who seems to be just too busy to give her a call,leaving her life incomplete, and her mind blaming it on the stars. Not to mention her poor friends Lucy and Nesta who have been left begging their mate Izzie for some attention!
"Mates" truly gives us an inside look at how love can make us clueless about everything and everyone but our newest intrest! Anyone who is in the mood for a cute love story or an amusing tale of the social teen life will love this book! Five stars!

Izzie is what you would call a mysterious person. She strives to be the next Alanis Morisette, but is also sitting by the phone waiting for a guy to call. Mark. Many times he said that he will call. But does he? No. What's wrong? Did he lose her number? Forget about her? What? Izzie, desperate to find out what she's done wrong, and see if she receives her phone call, sits by the phone day and night, just to see if Mark may call, like he said. But does he?

Fans of the prequel "Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras" will relish in the reading of yet another of the three girls featured in the books. Izzie is sharp, witty, and participating in something that many 14-year-old girls will find themselves relating to. Sitting at home waiting for the phone to ring. A must-have.

Erika Sorocco

This is the second book in the Mates, Dates series and it is about Izzie. She meets a cute boy, Mark, and gives him her number and he says he will call, and she stays home as much as she can and keeps the phone lines open, but he never calls. When she bumps into him at the park, he gives her a reasonable excuse and then they spend the day together and he says he will call again. Then the same thing happens, he doesnt call. Izzie is getting tired of all of this waiting and while giving some advice to Lucy about calling the shots with the boys instead of letting them push you around, she realizes what to do. This book and the rest of the series are really good books so read them!!!

The Exciting Series of Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses is written by Cathy Hopkins. If you like girly real fiction books, this is the book for you! Have you ever lost your mind over a boy? Well Izzie Foster is just now going through this experience. Izzie Foster is a fourteen year old boy crazy girl who losses her mind over a guy, her friends try to bring her back to reality. But as we all know there are some things a girl just doesn't want to hear. Can her friends bring back the old Izzie or is she gone forever?

This book really taught me a lesson because as people always say boys will stay and go but friends will always be by your side. The girls Izzie, Nesta, and Lucy always were in arguments but they figured how to get through the tough times and stuck together. This taught me that I need to be strong for my friends when they are in need. The problem usually with boys is they never call or forget about you, and this book was so realistic that those "boy" problems kept happening over and over and you wanted a new problem to occur. Everyone wants a friend that will protect them and help them when things are going wrong. Lucy was the kind of girl that knew what was right for her and her friends and was the strong one in the trio and really made sure they were all alright.

A book has to have a saying that makes you think or really touches you, and this book had many. My favorite out of the book was "I'm good, I'm bad, you're nice, you're mad, I love, I hate. But it's never too late to say sorry." That is true because that happens in real life and people need to know what they did was bad, but that they can sorry. This book is really fun and exciting and like I already said teaches you tons of lessons. The only question I have to ask myself after reading this book was do the girls know that friends will stay and always be there and help you out through trouble? I really recommend this book to girls because it is fantastic and I never could take my eyes off the book.

Though I'm older than the target audience, I really enjoy this series. I think the books are adorable and the author does a bang up job of capturing what teenage life is life. Bravo!

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god, this book is soo boring. I really love reading and i hardly ever stop a book in the middle but this one goes so slow. If people are looking for funny quick reads then check out the Georgia series by rennison. If there are people out there who are not great at reading and looking for something to waste time with then go to this series.

Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses is a typical story of a teenager going through tough times with friends, outlooks on the future, body image, teenage crushes on boys with "fab bods", and first kisses.
This story takes place in the heart of London. A fourteen-year-old girl hasn't any self-confidence. She believes her best friend has found a new best friend, and begins to feel very sorry for herself. She feels even more sorry for herself when everyone but her knows what they want to do when they get older. But when her best friend's new friend's brother kisses her, her problems just multiply. But as the story progresses, she begins to realize the with the help of friends, moms, and Angel Cards, she can find her true self and break through the boundaries that keep her from the real her.
This is a story about self-confidence and realizing your natural beauty. I recommend this book to all girls from the ages 12-16 that enjoy a little humor, romance, and sympathy all stirred together to create a whimsical story about life and overcoming your hardships.
Although the book started slow and was difficult to get into it, it soon wrapped you into its web of realistic problems and how to fix them. It had its dull and slow moving places, and then again it also had its fun and energetic places that kept me reading on and on. It was not my favorite book that I have ever read, but it was not on my list of bad books. I would rate this book 4 stars out of 5.

Title says it all. However, that is juust my opibion. Read it to find out if you like it/or not.Kind of like On the Bright Side... which was a better book.

I love this whole series! So these books aren't life-changing or anything, but they're just fun to read. If you want a light read, buy this book. Teenage girls can really relate to Izzie and her friends. Plus, because it's written by an English author they're really funny. These books have a good lesson in the end as well. Have some fun and read all the books in the Mates, Dates Series!

Overall, I think this is as funny as or funnier than the first book Mates Dates and Inflatable Bras. This book is told through Izzie's point of view, which is slightly different than Lucy. The only complaint is that Lucy and Izzie don't have different voices. They both seemed like the same character until someone in the book says her name.
This book Mates Dates and Cosmic Kisses is either a strong three star or a weak four star. I decided to give it a three star because of the character's voice problems. But I thought that everything else was very good, and I had a good laugh