Zoey Fools Around (Making Out) [Paperback]

Katherine Applegate (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2001 | Series: Making Out

A brand new look for the hugely successful Making Out - the series guaranteed to hook any teenager who's ever fallen in - or out - love! Making Out 1: Zoe Fools Around; Zoey, Lucas, Jake, Nina, Benjamin, Claire, Christopher and Aisha have all grown up together on Chatham Island, just off the Maine coast. Zoey has been with Jake forever, but when Lucas returns to the island after two years away, following a fatal accident he caused, Zoey finds herself drawn to him. And Claire has a secret - a secret that will change everything. But will all be revealed before Zoey fools around?

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The debut volume of the Boyfriends and Girlfriends series sports a snazzy die-cut cover with a collage of snapshot-style photographs of wholesome kids who would not be out of place on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210. Within, "handwritten" autobiographical fragments intercut the straightforward third-person narrative. High school senior Zoey, her boyfriend Jake and their gang are an especially close-knit group, having grown up on tiny Chatham Island off the Maine coast. Old alliances--especially Zoey and Jake's long-term relationship--are thrown off-balance when sexy loner Lucas Cabral returns to the island after spending two years in a reform school for his role in the drunk-driving accident that killed Jake's beloved older brother. A relatively lighthearted subplot chronicles feisty African American Aisha's efforts to avoid embarking on a romance with her potential soul mate. With its enticing, gossipy story lines and better-than-average character development (seductive, manipulative, Claire, who seems poised to become the series villainess, is more unhappy and confused than evil), this novel is likely to hook its intended audience. Ages 12-up.
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About the Author

Katherine Applegate has written forty books under her own name and various pseudonyms, including several titles for the Sweet Valley series, and the Ocean City fiction series. She's also the author of the brilliant Making Waves series.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Pan Childrens (July 6, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330397885
• ISBN-13: 978-0330397889
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #781,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katherine Applegate's many books include the Roscoe Riley Rules chapter book series, the picture book The Buffalo Storm, and the award-winning novel Home of the Brave. With her husband, Michael Grant, she wrote the hugely popular series Animorphs, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.

Katherine was inspired to write The One and Only Ivan after reading about the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla. The real Ivan lived alone in a tiny cage for twenty-seven years at a shopping mall before being moved to Zoo Atlanta after a public outcry. He is now a beloved celebrity at the zoo, which houses the nation's largest collection of western lowland gorillas. Ivan is well known for his paintings, which he "signs" with a thumb-print.

Katherine lives in California with her husband and two children.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And it all starts here, February 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Zoey Fools Around (Making Out, Book 1) (Paperback)

The best series in the whole world starts with this great book.

Zoey Passmore is one of the Chatham Island teenagers that grew up on this secluded island off the coast of Maine. She's the girlfriend of Jake and the sister of Benjamin, "the blind boy". She's the best friend to Nina, who happens to be the sister to Claire, who dates Benjamin. Claire used to date Lucas, Jake's enemy, but dumped him after an accident involving him, Claire, and Wade, Jake's brother who died in the accident. Confused yet? Heh. READ THE BOOKS!

Basically, this book is one where Zoey learns that she's growing up and can't depend on her lifelong habits. She's got to strike out on her own and do her own thing. Part of that means fooling around (making out) with Lucas. Then, she has to learn if she really loves Jake or Lucas. She has to listen to her heart...and not her head or her friends.

It's an amazing book and I recommend you check it, and all the other books out.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fooling Around, December 8, 1999

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David Lorne (Orlando, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zoey Fools Around (Making Out, Book 1) (Paperback)

Picture this, a girl thats "in love"ends up messing with this one other guy that is considered "forbidden". Her "best-friend"is falling for her boy-friend. A plot that is very interesting from the begining. When Zoey ends up kissing the "forbidden"People find out and things are crazy. There was a lot of details that make you avle to connect with the characters. For me, I was able to connect with Zoey. She is a helpless romantic. All she really wants is excitement. She discovers a new person which she has known for years, but suddenly he does something wrong that would change people's point of view about him. Zoey becomes very confused about how she feels. She thinks that she is in love with Jake (her boy-friend) But then she gets these weird feelings about the "forbidden". I recomend people that are in Middle or High school to read this because it deals with how we act and react with our emotions.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tsk Tsk Zoey, December 12, 1999

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Zoe - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zoey Fools Around (Making Out, Book 1) (Paperback)

The book, "Zoey Fools Around" Is a begining of a great series. Believe me I've read every book. This story is all about Zoey Passmore who has a wonderful love life with her great boyfriend Jake. Then she meets Lucas who has recently come back from the YA (a jail for teenagers) and she becomes closer and closer to him. Everybody else hates Lucas including Zoey's cool best friend, Nina Geiger and Nina's sister Claire (Who was a victim of the crime Lucas commited) and everybody else Zoey is close to! What will Zoey do? This book is cool, cheap, and well, just plain well written! So go ahead, buy it!