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The Queen Geek Social Club

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In San Diego fourteen year old Green Pines High School freshman Shelby Chappelle realistically knows she is the queen of geeks yet is able to attract the attention of Dustin the tennis hunk. Intelligent with self deprecating humor, Shelby knows he just wants to feel her boobs when he shouts out he loves her. She uses silly string to end the match. Still in spite of the date, Shelby has no friends perhaps because of her dad the mad scientist with a lab in their home or Euphoria the robot. All the teen wants is a pal.

A new girl enters English class; Becca Gallagher is freakishly tall, but also wears platforms to make her even taller. At lunch Becca and Shelby talk when Dustin and his boob-mates arrive to harass the girls saying they are lesbos until the towering female suddenly and painfully twists his tits and bends down to whisper in his ear that if he is a prime male girls have no choice, but one another. The two females become close friends forming the Queen Geek Social Club that enables them to become social butterflies. Through bowling and dancing, the short one finds Fletcher annoying and the tall one Brandon can look straight into her eyes, but both know they will always be queen geeks.

In many ways in spite of adolescent pranks, Shelby and Becca seem much older than their fourteen years and their friendship make for a fine coming of age tale. Shelby is delightful as she struggles with boys especially Brandon, Anders (an exchange student) and Fletcher. Becca has her own male problems as boys are leery of her incredibly fast tit twister submission hold let alone dancing cheek to breast. Though some language seems inappropriate for the targeted audience, this is a fun friendship tale.

Harriet Klausner

Laura Prebles book The Queen Geek Social Club is a great, light, funny and insightfull look into the life of high school geeks who dare to be out-there. I feel like the characters are my geek-sisters and can barely wait to find out what they are up to on the next page.

This is a great fun read!!!!

Goddess Girl

Everything was perfectly fine for Shelby Chapelle. After her mother had passed away, she was used to her life being just about her father, her robot, and herself. She was fine with the fact that she was not the most popular person at her school. Sure, she kept to herself most of the time, but she did go on dates with guys from her school, she was smart, and she knew some people. Shelby's life seemed normal to her. But then everything changed when the freakishly tall girl with the dragon tattoo came into her class. She was weird and a little intimidating, but the new girl, Becca Gallagher, became Shelby's first real friend.

Weeks later, Becca starts to come over to Shelby's house to meet her weird father and her weird mother-like robot, and hang out. Shelby would fill Becca in as to all the necessary info about Green Pines High School, the school that they attended, and Becca would discuss her crazy life. Sure, Becca was a little wild with odd ideas, but Shelby was fine with it. That is until Becca comes up with the strangest idea ever. What if they could create a group to join all the girl geeks from the school to first take over the school's social hierarchy--and then the world? At first, it seemed like the craziest idea, but Shelby didn't want to lose her only friend so she went along with it. Soon, the girls start the Queen Geeks Social Club and girls start to join. They devise a plan to collect Twinkies to send to a modeling agency to stop models from going hungry. Why Twinkies? Because they can last through a nuclear explosion, that's why.

Things could not get any weirder, until some guy, Fletcher Berkowitz, enters the picture. He may be one of the coolest and popular guys in school, but to Shelby he's just plain annoying. For some reason, he likes Shelby, but of course she has no idea why. Along with that, Shelby's dad starts to act even more weird than usual. Not only is he out of his lab, but he seems a little happier.

Everything started going crazy right when Becca Gallagher entered Shelby's life. It's now up to Shelby to find out what Becca really wants, and to solve the problems which need to be solved.

THE QUEEN GEEK SOCIAL CLUB was a fantastic read that was a definite page-turner. Fast-paced and well-developed, Laura Preble captures the mind of a teenager to the fullest. The fact that Shelby was a geek and not some materialistic girl made the story much more fun to read. A coming-of-age story that not only sparks the mind but also strikes a spot in your heart, THE QUEEN GEEK SOCIAL CLUB is a novel that should be on everyone's must-read list.

Reviewed by: Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen

An outstanding story expertly describing the hilarious adventures of a very believable teen searching for her identity at a new high school. This very funny book begs for a sequel because you simply can't put it down and you want to read more about the teen geek.

The author obviously understands the teen mind and thus informs all adults interested in learning what makes kids tick.
This is a real page turner book, appealing to all age groups.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I liked the fact that the main character was a loner and a geek. You dont see that in too many teen books these days. I could really relate to her even though I'm no longer a teen.
It's a fun book and I even laughed out loud a few times.

The Queen Geek Social Club remindes me of many a day in school. It's a Great read. I can't wait for the follow up!
Just remeber we all have a little geek somewhere inside.

Shelby Chappelle is a geek and proud of it. She also dates, but she's careful not to let anyone get too close. Since her mother died, Shelby has carefully kept others at a distance. Her closest confidante is the electronic housekeeper her absent-minded scientist father created. Then Becca Gallagher - 'freakishly tall and tattooed' - moves into town and Shelby's life is thrown into chaos.

Becca is a geek too, but she's a geek bent on world domination. All too quickly, Shelby finds herself sucked into her new best friend's outlandish plots, chief among them the formation of the Queen Geek Social Club, designed to help them 'find others of our kind'.

Meanwhile, Fletcher Berkowitz (an athlete and therefore definitely not a geek, even if he does get what being a geek can mean) starts paying Shelby a little more attention than she's comfortable with, no matter what she does to discourage him. What with Becca and Fletcher both crowding into her life, Shelby has to decide if she's ready to let others get close enough to really know her.

t's chic to be geek!

If you're somebody like Shelby Chappelle, a smart, witty, pretty geek army of one, you can't just put a poster up at school and advertise for somebody to be your best friend. But now freakishly tall Becca Gallagher has moved to town, with her dragon tattoo and wild ideas. Suddenly Shelby's mad scientist father and their robot, Euphoria, seem normal. They become best friends instantly. But Becca wants to shake things up at school and look for "others of our kind"...and decides to form the Queen Geek Social Club.

The thing is, this guy Fletcher Berkowitz keeps nosing around, asking lots of questions about the Club. He's cute, and interesting, and possibly likes Shelby. Therefore, she must torture him. One good thing about being a loner: no one can break your heart.

I, like many other reviewers, had mixed feelings about this book. There were some stuff that I really liked, then there were other stuff that I disliked.

Likes:

-The whole geek club thing (was original and sounded like a cool club)
-It had romance (I'm a sucker books that have romance)
-Sometimes it was very funny.
-It was entertaining...sometimes.
-The pranks that they pulled
-Shelby's robot, Euphoria ( She was more interesting that Shelby).

Dislikes:

-The characters. I had a hard time connecting with them.
-The plot moved slowly. I had to put it down multiple times.
-The club didn't really achieve its purpose (to allow them to make new friends...they did meet new people, but they didn't seem as if they were friends)
-The main character, Shelby, got on my nerves. She was too annoying and whiny.

Overall, this was an OK book.I might read the rest of the series, but I won't expect much from them. I liked the club idea, the occasional humor, the romance, and the pranks. The rest, I disliked. It's not a book I would strongly recommend. If you want to read this series, be my guest. Just know what to expect.
-Carol
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There were some things about this book that worked and some that didn't.
What worked: The characters. They were wacky and zany enough to be believable. The whole idea of starting a club for geeks is just weird enough to sound like it could fly. I'm sure something like that might actually be popular at some of our schools, right? Shelby and Becca also had some great friendship chemistry going. When they first met each other, it just kind of felt right. It really clicked for me. Even among people, I don't think that happens very often so it was great that Laura Preble was able to convey that kind of connection through prose.
What didn't: The whole book was kind of slow to me. There was nothing about it that grabbed me or really made me want to keep reading. At all. And while the afore mentioned wackiness can be a good thing, I think it got rather out of hand. It sort of turned into a big free for all, anything flies, type of situation which isn't all that fun to read about. I wanted more structure and normalcy. Shelby also kind of annoyed me at points because she was so single minded. She got upset or discouraged over the littlest things, which wasn't fun to read about either.
In conclusion: This was an okay book. Not superb, not horrendous, just in between. I suppose I recommend it, but really, only pick it up if you've got nothing better to read, because it won't do much for you and what book's worth reading if you're bored throughout the whole thing?

Shelby Chapelle is a geek and fine with it. She's smart and pretty and can easily get dates, but all she really wants is a Best Friend. That role is filled by the wild Becca Gallagher. Becca is also a geek and proud of it. The girls instantly bond and become best friends. But Becca is a bit more on the radical side; she wants to find "others of their kind," and thus the Queen Geek Social Club is born. The main goal of the club is to empower these geeky girls through various projects. The plans get bigger and bigger (Becca is planning to change the world), but sometimes Shelby doesn't know why she's along for the ride. It doesn't help that she's confused about a certain attractive Norwegian exchange student and another guy named Fletcher. This Queen Geek is going to have to get her brain into gear if she's going to be the most spectacular person she can be.

I have mixed reactions about The Queen Geek Social Club. This novel succeeded in being humorous and romantic. However, the characters were a bit confusing, especially when tied together with the club. One of the points of the club was to find other geeky girls so they could work together; half the time it seems like they weren't really friends. Several of the characters' motivations for hiding certain secrets were unclear. Also, sometimes main character Shelby was a mystery to me, and I thought it was strange how she just suddenly realized at the end of the novel her role in the Queen Geek Social Club and the club's role in her life. I did love the pranks and ideas that Becca came up with, and I did get some good laughs from reading this book. But the amusing comments only partially made up for the strangely constructed characters, and the result was that this novel was only mildly entertaining.

I'm not really sure if I will read the rest of this series. Girls who love funny and romantic stories may enjoy The Queen Geek Social Club. If you are looking for a book with more meaning, I would not suggest reading it.