Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate [Hardcover]

Ellen Conford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1975

When she takes on the advice column for her school newspaper, Carrie encounters more problems than she expects.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 170 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Juv); 1st edition (October 1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316153060
• ISBN-13: 978-0316153065
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,905,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, August 21, 2001

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This review is from: Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate (Hardcover)

This book is funny and realistic. It's about a girl, Carrie who works for the newspaper. A cute older guy, Chip, asks her to do a secret column, "Dear Lovey Hart", where she answers questions that the readers write in. It starts out fun, she gets tons of letters, helps epople out with serious issues, and gets closer to Chip. Only Carrie's best friend, Claudia also has thing for Chip. Carrie's other best friend, Terry has a thing for a teacher, which leaves her in depression after embarassment and rejection. Marty, Carrie's older guy friend, who's Chip's age, has a crush on Carrie. He wrties to Lovey Hart, asking for information, but when Carrie gives him info, everything goes wrong. Jen, Carrie's little sister soon finds out that Carrie is Lovey Hart. The book countineus and is really exciting and interesting. I strongly reccomend it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As an adult, I still get this out of the library to reread, March 31, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate (Hardcover)

Such a wonderful book and so funny regarding how a fairly unsuspecting high school sophomore finds herself in the middle of quite the mess, just trying to do the right thing. Very engaging, wonderfully written. It's too bad that it's out of print. The sequel is great as well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DEAR ABBY GONE WRONG, September 29, 2000

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Kendrik Lau (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate (Hardcover)

Dear Lovey Hart, I am Desperate is basically about a high school newspaper decided to start an advice column. The person who will be dispensing advice would write under the name Lovey Hart. Guess who got chosen? Our intrepid heroine of the story. Sure it is fun to give out advice to others, but it seems that it is even more fun to hang around with Chip, the blond hunky editor of the school paper.

Our heroine started out pretty well....even getting a thank you letter from one person who followed her advice and changed her life. But as time went on, Lovey Hart went from savior to scapegoat, as people who followed her advice blindly and ended up worse than where they started. Well, it got to the point where our heroine can't even tell anybody she's Lovey Hart or she would be laughed out of town.

Well the ending is quite interesting. Also a very funny book.