Customer Reviews

Stay True: Short Stories for Strong Girls (Apple Signature)

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Though Stay True didn't give a confidence boost as promised, the stories were absolutely great and were very meaningful. Some were poignant and made you think, others were funny and suspenseful. I think that all teen girls should read this book. I read every story and loved them all.

i really liked it, it was something I could relate to, and really cherish. I was sad after it ended

Some of the stories are beautifully written like The Transformations of Cindy R. and The Magic Bow. M. E. Kerr's story is also along the lines of the other two. All of them are very enjoyabel except for the one about the horse. This book can really help girls dealing with life's problems.

Each story in this collections seems to represent a facet of a girl's youth, whether it be dealing with her self imagine, or standing up and fighting for her dreams. When read as a collection, I think these stories pull together to present a realistic picture of the trials faced by teen girls.

It could get boring! Lose interest fast! But when you got near the end it seemed to speed up and get reall good!!!Some stories were really good!!!

This is a series of short stories about girls, and especially about girls who are strong and able to take care of themselves.

Miranda is struggling to find something wrong with her mother's new boyfriend so she can convince her mother to drop him. Bebe would like to be an engineer, but her grandmother has never heard of any black female engineers, so she won't let Bebe follow her dream.

Tory thought she had her whole life mapped out, but then she meets the son of her family's maid and begins to rethink her entire future. Grace struggles with the fact that she is so large and awkward compared with the rest of her family.

Cindy gets a fairy godmother to make her beautiful and popular on the night of a big dance. Marguerite was always the crazy one in her family, and never cared what anyone else thought of her. Now that she is in college, she's set her sights on a handsome, quiet boy.

Consuela struggles against her traditional Latino family. Liz goes to live in a home with domestic violence. Monica fights to be allowed to go to Paris as her parents promised. Molly is sad that her childhood friend has changed, until she accidentally ready her friend's notebook and realizes she hasn't changed on the inside.

Princess Rowena is courted by many wonderful met, but she wants to make a good decision about who to marry, so she gets advice from a witch.

This was a good group of stories. There was some high quality writing here. I especially liked the stories that were takes on fairy tales, although some of the realistic stories were good as well.

When it comes to a book of short stories this book really deserves the rating I gave it! How would you say what's going on in a girls mind well than in this book. When I say that this was a really good book I mean it. The content really says a lot because it is very well written, and the editor choose great stories that really portrays the imagination and feeling running through a young girls brain. When a girl whose mother is single and has a problem with some of her mom's boy friends and so she drives them off and the most recent guy she really hates but then he gets bitten on the job by some lunatic and she feels sorry for him and she finally approves of him. Or when Cindy a girl who never fits in to the crowd gets a fairy godmother who makes her popular and the most beautiful girl in her high school, when she gets a taste of this new life at the high school dance, she decides that she doesn't want to be "cool" and the importance of being her self! When a mother decides to follow her dream and she forgets her promise to her 15-year-old daughter whom she promised to send to Europe for her 16th birthday. She stands in a protest until her mother will send her to France. "Why am I so different," this thought runs through all our minds at some point in time in our lives. "When I look at my siblings I wonder why it looks like I don't belong in this family, I mean look at me!"
I still say that this editor choose some meaningful stories that portray the true thoughts in all of us.

Have you ever been looking to become one with the stars and ended up saying good-bye to a horse who would have the chance to reach them? Then you are amazingly like Consuela, a young teen (from the story "The Pale Mare") who lives in a Latin American community on the outskirts of Los Angeles California. Conseula dreams of being an astronomer. But in her family such an idea is frowned upon. Her parents' idea is to have her work for them at the "Charreada" (an event where people rope horses and pull them to the ground hurting them.) and then to marry a "nice boy" and have children. Well Consuela thinks that the nice boy and astronomy should go hand in hand.
I really enjoyed the book. Most of the stories in this collection are heart wrenching and sad, in a good kind of way. The endings touch the heart and make the soul truly feel for the protagonist. Also most of the stories had such great detail that you felt as if you could actually be at the protagonist's side at that exact time. There were a few stories that were so realistic that you could almost feel the pain and anguish that the main character felt. Like the story "The Transformations of Cindy R." The detail gives you such a sense of how Cindy felt and the atmosphere that she was in. Although the book was amazingly written there were a few stories with absolutely no detail at all. Like the story "Crazy as a Daisy", it says that Daisy is unique and special but doesn't tell you how she is either of these. I think that all around this collection was an awesome book that is a must read for those who love sad stories.

I was neither bored, nor enthralled by this collection of stories, but each one left me thinking about something relevant to my life. I think most of the stories in this book tell girls it is ok to be differnt and it is especially ok to expect to achieve your dreams!

I feel that by reading this book it has made me stronger. There was alot of differnt side stories that got kind of confusing. But I think over all it was a really good book. I don't see myself reading it again though. The book started with a story about this girl that lived her her mom and dad in a pretty ok neighborhood, exept for her family. The Dad was an alcoholic and the Mom wasnt much better so the girl had no one to turn to. One day the police came and took her parents away so she was forced to a new family... The book mostly talked about how she came to adjust to the new life style. This book really made me realize as the reader about whats going on in this world. A lot of people dont realize it because there familes arent bad, but I think this book was a really big eye opener!