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Where I Belong [Paperback]

Gwendolyn Heasley
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)

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Book Description

February 8, 2011

Meet Corrinne. She's living every girl's dream in New York City—shopping sprees at Barneys, open access to the best clubs and parties, and her own horse at the country club. Her perfect life is perfectly on track. At least it was. . . .

When Corrinne's father is laid off, her world suddenly falls apart. Instead of heading to boarding school, she's stripped of her credit cards and shipped off to the boonies of Texas to live with her grandparents. On her own in a big public school and forced to take a job shoveling manure, Corrinne is determined to get back to the life she's supposed to be living. She doesn't care who she stomps on in the process. But when Corrinne makes an unlikely friend and discovers a total hottie at work, she begins to wonder if her life B.R.—before the recession—was as perfect as it seemed.


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About the Author

Gwendolyn Heasley is a graduate of Davidson College and the University of Missouri–Columbia, where she earned her master's degree in journalism. When she was a little girl, she desperately wanted to be the next Ann M. Martin, so she's grateful that the recession rendered her unemployed and made her chase her nearly forgotten dream. Gwendolyn now lives in New York City, teaches in New Jersey, and eats too much mac and cheese for an adult. She is also the author of Where I Belong.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: HarperTeen; 1 edition (February 8, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061978841
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061978845
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I won't go as far as to say I really enjoyed this, but it isn't like I disliked it, either. Misa Gracen  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
I really enjoyed this book because it has both romance and good qualities. katie grabski  |  9 reviewers made a similar statement
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Where I Belong money isn't everything February 13, 2011
Format:Paperback
I won this book here, thanks Harper Teen for the ARC. I absolutely loved this book!

Corrinne Corcoran is a rich girl who gets everything she wants, when she wants it. That is until her dad loses his job and she, along with her brother and mom, move to Broken Spoke, Texas to live with her grandparents, whom she had only met a couple of times before.

Corrine wants nothing to do other than sulk and try to find a way back to her old life. While living with her grandparents and while her mom is back in NY trying to sell their apartment, she has to go to public school, is forced to take a job shoveling manure, and eats way too much, since according to her in NY staying thin is a sport. Out of all of the bad things that have happened, she meets Rider, whom she works with next to and her mission is to get him to ask her out. In order to do that, she enlists the help of Kitsy, a girl in her Spanish class who she is slowly becoming friends with. Even though she has to go to a school dance with Bubby, the guy that from the first day has made fun of her, she is willing to do that in order to get Rider to pay attention to her.

Through her stay at Broken Spoke, she learns about why her mother has stayed away so long from there, learns how to drive and really knows how she feels when her best friend from NY, Waverly, goes to visit her.

At the beginning of the book there is a note to the readers, that if you hate her at first to keep reading, which is a very good idea. We join Corrine through her self discovery and that money really isn't everything
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4.0 out of 5 stars Where I Belong February 13, 2011
Format:Paperback
Until last week, I had heard absolutely nothing about this book. Not a word. Then I saw it in Kristi at The Story Siren's In My Mailbox post, and I bought it straight away. I mean, just look at the cover... does this book not scream HOT TEXAN COWBOY?! Why yes, yes it does. And there are! I must own any book set in Texas that features boys wearing cowboy boots as they stroll around fields saying "Y'all". It's a rule.

Where I Belong is fresh and funny, and full of Texan charm. It also reminded me of Melissa Walker's Lovestruck Summer, which is a book I almost proposed to in 2009. (Seriously, I was *this* close). I have a mini fascination with stories about people moving to new states or just Texas in general, though I have never (and probably will never - I'm scared of flying) been there. I don't know much about the state, but I am an avid Friday Night Lights fan. That show has taught me a lot, including how important football is to Texans, and how Friday night is usually spend watching the games. I also know there are lots of fields and a cool accent, but that's about as far as my knowledge goes. Unless you want to know what kind of jeans Tim Riggins wears...

My point is that I love learning about different places in the US. Things across the pond are so different to here in the UK, and Gwendolyn Heasley does a brilliant job of setting the scene. I felt I was actually in Texas with Corrinne, preparing for rodeos and driving a truck like something out of Twilight. Talking of Corrinne, our dear protagonist, I didn't like her at first. She's like Blair Waldorf in the heart of NYC, with bitchy friends and more money than sense. When her father loses everything in the recession, she's forced to leave her whole life behind, and move to Broken Spoke, Texas.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Where I Belong by Gwendolyn Heasley August 20, 2012
Format:Paperback
Y'all, sometimes, you need to read a book where you know everything that is going to happen. From the second you read the summary, you know the entire plot but you need a pick me up novel. Where I Belong is just that. Not the best book out there and certainly clichéd, but it's still a "make up feel good" type of book.

Form the beginning, Corrinne is the girl you want to hate. She's obnoxious and oblivious and stuck up. So when she's got to move from her large city, glamorous life style to a small town, her reactions are predictable. She's not going to like it and will constantly complain. Surprisingly, I found some of me in Corrinne. Like her, I had to move from a large city (Atlanta) when my dad got a new job to the middle of nowhere. I felt her pain at the new place where everyone knew everyone else; their grandparents had gone to school together even! That sort of environment is hard to settle into but again, I knew that Corrinne would eventually. So yes, the plot was in one word: obvious.

Corrinne and the rest of the cast of characters were just what I was expecting: from the hard working mother and father, to the amazing grandparents, to that one girl in the small town who is really nice and that one football player that is destined to get out and make it big! Mind you, it's not all that bad. It's an enjoyable read and I liked reading about these characters. Corrinne goes through the most change in this novel but with only 289 pages (the beginning 100 or so are spent complaining about the new town), there isn't much that can happen. She does grow though, which is my point. She accepts what's happening, makes friends, and even gets a job!

Overall, Where I Belong was a clichéd novel that was an enjoyment novel.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Expected more
I was prepared to really like this book. I wanted a quick, easy, feel-good read, and this sounded like one from the reviews.
It wasn't. Read more
Published 6 days ago by Emmaline
5.0 out of 5 stars Where I Belong = Fantastic
Where I belong is an absolutely fantastic book! If you're on the fence, I suggest taking a chance and checking it out! I don't think you'll be disappointed!!
Published 3 months ago by Mike G
5.0 out of 5 stars Where I Belong
Purchased this book as a Christmas gift for two of my teen-aged granddaughters to share. They really enjoyed reading it.
Published 4 months ago by Bookwoman
2.0 out of 5 stars Underdeveloped and cliched
It might be my own fault that I didn't like this book. I haven't been reading much ever since starting college, and I always felt like I had to force myself to keep reading. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Hannah @ Paperback Treasures
4.0 out of 5 stars great summer read!
This book really surprised me. I love young adult romance and fiction, and this book really hit the spot. Read more
Published 11 months ago by katie grabski
2.0 out of 5 stars Annoyingly amateurish writing.
I agree with the reviewer who was irritated by the consistent lack of contractions in the dialog. No one sounds like this in real life. It took me right out of the story. Read more
Published 11 months ago by flowergrrlll
2.0 out of 5 stars Skip It
Wow. This was no where as good as I'd hoped. I'd seen this as part of a giveaway on the Spring Fling Blog Hop and the description grabbed me as much as the cover. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Turning the Pages
3.0 out of 5 stars Money doesn't define a teen
Where I Belong started pretty slowly for me because I had a very difficult time connecting with Corrinne, the main character. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Lisa McGeen
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read for 13 year old!
I bought this fr my 13 year old who reads "occasionally" for pleasure. She read 50 pages the 1st day! She loved the book and looks forward to a second one.
Published 13 months ago by Kelly
3.0 out of 5 stars A Fluffy Read
I don't think I've ever read a book in which there was such a bitchy, snobby, self-centered, egotistical girl as a main character. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Misa Gracen
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