Love Me, Love My Broccoli (An Avon Camelot Book) [Paperback]

Julie Anne Peters (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Series: An Avon Camelot Book

Chloe cares about animal rights. She campaigns against animal testing, doesn't wear leather, and will rescue creatures in danger. Her principles are put to the test when charming, football-playing, burger-chomping Brett asks her out. Chloe finds herself skipping her animal rights rallies and cheering Brett on at school games. Meanwhile, Brett gives up his meat-eating ways and admires Chloe for her strong convictions.

But when Brett sees Chloe going way overboard (in his opinion, at least) and putting herself in danger, her pressures her to give up her activities. Will Chloe turn her back on her beliefs...or on Brett?

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Julie Anne Peters lives in Lakewood, Colorado.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Avon Books (February 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380798999
• ISBN-13: 978-0380798995
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,870,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

For the last 20+ years, I've been writing books for young readers. My YA novel, Luna, the story of a transgender teen beginning her transition from male to female, was a National Book Award finalist and an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. (Thank you award committee members.) My other books about gender queer youth include Keeping You a Secret, Far from Xanadu (which is now Pretend You Love Me), Between Mom and Jo, grl2grl: short fictions, Rage: A Love Story, and She Loves You, She Loves You Not... My newest title, published in 2010, is By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead. I have a new book scheduled for 2012 titled, It's Our Prom (So Deal With It).

I'm a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Pen America, the Authors Guild, and the Colorado Authors' League. I live with my long-suffering partner, Sherri Leggett, in Lakewood, Colorado. (We're celebrating our 38th anniversary this year. Seriously, I don't know how she stands living with a neurotic writer.)

More information about me and my books can be found on my Web site: www.JulieAnnePeters.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love Her and Her Broccoli, June 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Me, Love My Broccoli (An Avon Camelot Book) (Paperback)

I am a 50-something attorney, vegan vegetarian, whose wife (also vegan vegetarian) bought this book for our kids (Guess what - vegetarian). She left it on the diningroom table, and I picked it up and read it. I couldn't put it down.

I love Chloe Mankewicz, and I wish that she had been at my high school when I was there. This book is surprisingly engaging to someone who hasn't been in high school in more than thirty years, and who, by all rights should not be interested in a book like this. Nonetheless, I recommend this to any age group. It is a great story, well-told, and if your heart isn't aching for Chloe at the end, then you probably don't have a heart.

And the book has a message. Several of them. Some which the author may not have intended, in the wake of the Colombine disaster. Being 14, bright and dedicated to a cause can be tough business, and the classic battle between the brains and the jocks can have unexpected outcomes.

I think this book provides a lot of guidance to kids who are there now. If you are young, into animal rights and vegetarianism, this book gives you a lot of positive affirmation.

If you are not, this book may change your way of thinking.

I strongly recommend it.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book!, April 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Me, Love My Broccoli (An Avon Camelot Book) (Paperback)

This was one of my favorite books! I am a vegetarian, and thisbook helped me keep faith, when my friends would say negative thingsabout me. Everyone should read this book even if you are not avegetarian!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Food for thought; an empowering but realistic ending, November 9, 2000

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Rosemary Amey (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Me, Love My Broccoli (An Avon Camelot Book) (Paperback)

The heroine, Chloe, is a dedicated (perhaps overzealous) animal rights activist who falls for Brett, a jock who does not share her values. She finds she is so busy with Brett that she has less and less time for her activism--and then Brett pressures her to give up her animal rights work altogether because he is concerned for her safety.

The dilemma Chloe faces will be familiar to many vegetarian women; indeed, many girls and women period. It is inevitable that relationships change us, but how much change is too much?

Unlike many books of the genre, the book does not have a simplistic happily ever after ending. Chloe's problems, including the tension between Brett and her beliefs, her relationship with her (noncustodial) mother, her faltering friendship with a fellow activist, and her grandmother who suffers from dementia, are not magically solved. What we do get is a realistic, bittersweet ending, with some hope for the future.