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"Every day, I wait for that doomsday shoe to drop on my head and crush my spirit," laments New Jersey high schooler Jessica Darling. This hilarious, candid sequel to Sloppy Firsts opens the summer before Jessica's senior year of high school, when the precocious misfit is at a New Jersey academic enrichment camp whose competitive enrollment is belied by its acronym-SPECIAL. There, she meets Prof. Samuel MacDougall, a handsome writing teacher with "three novels, two works of nonfiction and one hot piece of ass to his name," who challenges Jessica to imagine the world outside of her native suburbia. She also runs into her former "crush-to-end-all-crushes" Paul Parlipiano (he's gay, of course), who introduces her to Columbia University-which she decides she must attend. Come September, Jessica works on her college applications, dearly misses her best friend, Hope, who has moved to Tennessee, and spends much of her time trying not to think about bad boy Marcus Flutie, who broke her heart last winter when he confessed that he only asked her out as an experiment. As her senior year progresses, Jessica starts dating Len Levy, her rival for class valedictorian, and becomes the subject of the school's new anonymous gossip rag. The material is typical teen fare, but Jessica is a captivating, intelligent, acidly funny-but always believably adolescent-narrator who is unsparing in her sketches of Pineville High "society" yet touchingly alive to her own vulnerabilities. Though the happy ending seems targeted to a YA crowd, adults will also enjoy Jessica's winning observations.
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Jessica Darling, the lovably cynical heroine of Sloppy Firsts (2001), is about to begin her final year of high school. She is not looking forward to it. Her best friend, Hope, has moved away, leaving her with only budding-movie-star Bridget to confide in. She also is doing her best to forget Marcus Flutie, the oh-so-sexy guy who captured her heart the year before, only to break it. Jessica has resolved to apply to Columbia University, but after the 9/11 attack, she's doubly certain her parents won't hear of her going to school in New York City. She's flattered by the attentions of Len Levy, a hot brainiac, who just might be the one to drive Marcus from her mind, not to mention relieve her of her virginity. As the time to graduation ticks down, Jessica discovers she knows less about Bridget, Marcus, and the other people who surround her than she thought she did. Smart, tentative, and funny, Jessica is a likable and wry observer of the competitive, gossipy high-school world. Kristine Huntley
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"Every day, I wait for that doomsday shoe to drop on my head and crush my spirit," laments New Jersey high schooler Jessica Darling. This hilarious, candid sequel to Sloppy Firsts opens the summer before Jessica's senior year of high school, when the precocious misfit is at a New Jersey academic enrichment camp whose competitive enrollment is belied by its acronym-SPECIAL. There, she meets Prof. Samuel MacDougall, a handsome writing teacher with "three novels, two works of nonfiction and one hot piece of ass to his name," who challenges Jessica to imagine the world outside of her native suburbia. She also runs into her former "crush-to-end-all-crushes" Paul Parlipiano (he's gay, of course), who introduces her to Columbia University-which she decides she must attend. Come September, Jessica works on her college applications, dearly misses her best friend, Hope, who has moved to Tennessee, and spends much of her time trying not to think about bad boy Marcus Flutie, who broke her heart last winter when he confessed that he only asked her out as an experiment. As her senior year progresses, Jessica starts dating Len Levy, her rival for class valedictorian, and becomes the subject of the school's new anonymous gossip rag. The material is typical teen fare, but Jessica is a captivating, intelligent, acidly funny-but always believably adolescent-narrator who is unsparing in her sketches of Pineville High "society" yet touchingly alive to her own vulnerabilities. Though the happy ending seems targeted to a YA crowd, adults will also enjoy Jessica's winning observations.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Jessica Darling, the lovably cynical heroine of Sloppy Firsts (2001), is about to begin her final year of high school. She is not looking forward to it. Her best friend, Hope, has moved away, leaving her with only budding-movie-star Bridget to confide in. She also is doing her best to forget Marcus Flutie, the oh-so-sexy guy who captured her heart the year before, only to break it. Jessica has resolved to apply to Columbia University, but after the 9/11 attack, she's doubly certain her parents won't hear of her going to school in New York City. She's flattered by the attentions of Len Levy, a hot brainiac, who just might be the one to drive Marcus from her mind, not to mention relieve her of her virginity. As the time to graduation ticks down, Jessica discovers she knows less about Bridget, Marcus, and the other people who surround her than she thought she did. Smart, tentative, and funny, Jessica is a likable and wry observer of the competitive, gossipy high-school world. Kristine Huntley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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I can't believe I used to do this nearly every day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Paul Parlipiano, Pineville High, New York, Pinevile Low, Jessica Darling, Marcus Flutie, Silver Meadows, Jenn Sweet, New Year's Eve, Tutti Flutie, Chaos Called Creation, Bubblegum Bimbos, Game Master, Len Levy, Best Looking, Ivy League, New Jersey, The Seagull's Voice, Clueless Two, Number of Schools Left, Jesus Christ, Miss Hyacinth Anastasia Wallace, Taryn Baker, Snake March, Valentine's Day New!
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I can't believe I used to do this nearly every day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bizillion times, obsessive object, dignified grace Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Parlipiano, Pineville High, New York, Pinevile Low, Jessica Darling, Marcus Flutie, Silver Meadows, Jenn Sweet, New Year's Eve, Tutti Flutie, Chaos Called Creation, Bubblegum Bimbos, Game Master, Len Levy, Best Looking, Ivy League, New Jersey, The Seagull's Voice, Clueless Two, Number of Schools Left, Jesus Christ, Miss Hyacinth Anastasia Wallace, Taryn Baker, Snake March, Valentine's Day New!
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- New Year (Get Set, Go!) by Helen Bliss on page 106, page 192, and page 214
- Sloppy Firsts: A Novel (Jessica Darling) by Megan McCafferty in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- My Sister from the Black Lagoon : A Novel of My Life by Laurie Fox in Back Matter
- Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction by Suzanne Ferriss on page 143, page 149, and page 157
- Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday by Megan McCafferty in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Vocabbusters SAT: Make Vocabulary Fun, Meaningful and Memorable by Dusti Howell in Back Matter
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