Sweet Sixteen #2: Lucy [Paperback]

Jessica Barondes (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sweet Sixteen | Publication Date: January 14, 2000

Driving. Dating. A real social life. And the one extraordinary night where it all comes together...the Sweet Sixteen party is the coming-of-age celebration to end all celebrations. Whether it's a roaring good time or a total bust, it will be a memory to last a lifetime.

Six parties, six locations across the country -- each unique and totally unpredictable. Join six different heroes and heroines as they plan and celebrate their own Sweet Sixteens. The fun is just getting started...

When Lucy moved from one suburb of Chicago to another, she reinvented herself as a preppy good girl. When she met her new boyfriend, she invented yet another identity. Now she's invited to three can't-say-no Sweet 16 parties, and it's going to take a miracle, and several costume changes, to pull off the charade...

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 6-9-Birthday parties provide the glue that holds these novels together. Deceptions and lies abound with no real consequences. Both books are dialogue driven, written in choppy, short sentences with very little description or character development. When Lucy's family moves during the middle of the school year, she decides to take this opportunity to redefine herself. Lucy's former "goth" guise sported bizarre hair color, black clothing, and only friends from the fringe. Her new look is prep, complete with pearls, natural hair color, and country-club friends. She assumes a third personality as a college sophomore. The lies she must tell and the juggling of activities ultimately lead to her downfall on the night of three very different sweet-16 parties where her attendance is expected. Told in alternating chapters and diary entries by Julia and Maggie, Julia is a modern-day, female version of The Prince and the Pauper. The two girls meet in the restroom of the Department of Motor Vehicles where they have both gone on their mutual 16th birthday to get their driver's licenses. What a shock to look into the eyes of a total stranger and see oneself reflected. On a whim, the teens decide to switch places and attend each other's birthday parties with the hopes of finding a situation better than the one they are leaving behind. Neither the conversations nor the situations really ring true. Both titles read like scripts for made-for-TV movies.
Lynda Short, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Jessica Barondes grew up in La Jolla, California, and now makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband, Ben, and their son, Jonah.  Also a screenwriter, her feature film Wish Upon a Star, a winner of the Heartland Film Festival, has been featured on the Disney Channel.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 215 pages
• Publisher: HarperTrophy (January 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0064408132
• ISBN-13: 978-0064408134
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,315,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Sixteen, April 1, 2000

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Morgan (Laguna Niguel, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Sixteen #2: Lucy (Paperback)

Sweet Sixteen #2:Lucy helps show the differnent aspects of teenage life and shows how much one person can effect another. The story takes place in Illionis and follows the life of a girl named Lucy. Lucy moved from her old home town and is trying to make a new impression on people. Through this she makes up lies which put her in a state to take herself to 3 sweet 16 b-day parties and in the end her lies come back around to her. This is an amazing fictional story of one 16 year old girl and her peers.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't you wish you Had a twin?, April 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sweet Sixteen #2: Lucy (Paperback)

I really liked this book. I usally am pretty low on cash, but ilove to read, and am always asking my rents' to buy me books, but lasttime i asked my mom put her foot down she said she spends almost 200 DOLLARS on books for me every month. and she told me that if i wanted anymore books i would be the one to pay for them. so i won this award for attendance at school ($15), and went shoppin. since it had been like forever since i had bought any books i wanted to get a long but good won, i love reading books that are set up as personal narritoves, and when i saw this i had to get it. I really got into the book, i was afraid if i put it down luc would go to the party without me nd i woulld miss out. the book made me bite my nails, i just kept wishing, if only i had 2 twins and could be in 3 places at once withoput anyone noticing !