Fun, Sun, and Flamingoes (Full House Club Stephanie) [Paperback]

Janet Quin-Harkin (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Series: Full House Club Stephanie

Summer is here, and it's off to a sun-sational start for Stephanie, Allie and Darcy! They've made friends with two new girls, Kayla and Anna. Together, the five of them start a summer camp for kids called Club Stephanie--and it's a sizzling success!

But then everything flops--all because of the Flamingoes! They've started their own summer camp, the Little Flamingoes. Suddenly, all of Club Stephanie's campers want to be Little Flamingoes too!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight; 1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th,and 6th. edition (June 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671008269
• ISBN-13: 978-0671008260
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,456,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Watch out Golding!, October 23, 2000

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Joshua Boak (Princeton, NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fun, Sun, and Flamingoes (Full House Club Stephanie) (Paperback)

While not as explosive as "Friend or Flamingo," this first novel in the Club Stephanie series explores social incongruities in post-Cold War San Francisico. Wrapped around a bare bones Steinbeck-like narrative detailing the struggles of setting up a summer camp for neighborhood children, the book moves at such a blistering pace that it's easy to miss Quin-Harkin and Taaffe's subtle nuances. Indeed, their scope of intertextual references ranging from Chaucer to Pete Townshend fix the battle between the two groups on a wider social level, foreshadowing the LA riots and Atlanta Olympics.

The influence of William Golding is not lost on the authors either. Indeed, her paradise is all too easily corrupted. Stephanie emerges in the novel as a flawed heroine, whose victories depend upon her ability to arrive at universal truths. All the while, she remains engaging and entertaining to the reader.

While my love of the series leads me to award a 5 star rating to this book, my mixed feelings on the dualistic ending put it at 4 stars. The ending definitely raises more questions than it answers, leaving many a reader, myself included, feeling somewhat unsatisfied.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cute, August 21, 2001

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A reviewer (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fun, Sun, and Flamingoes (Full House Club Stephanie) (Paperback)

This book is cute. I now read more mature books, like Sweet Valley University, since I'm a teenager and all. But I remember when I read Full House books. The good ole Club Stephanie. It's cute and funny how every summer they always end up with the Flamingoes, and the same routine. The Flamingoes play tricks on them, they fight over the guys, etc. This book is great and really gives you the feeling of young summer love.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book from beggining to end, May 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fun, Sun, and Flamingoes (Full House Club Stephanie) (Paperback)

This book is really exciting and is good for people at 9 upwards but if you were looking for something serious and fun this is the right book for you.It contains alot of laughter and shocking things but it is still a really good book.