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Slam Book
Anna's slam book, a notebook in which students can anonymously writer their opinions of one another, proves dangerous when unattractive Cheryl Sutphin becomes the tragic victim of a chain of events initiated in the slam book
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Ann M. Martin
1,005 books2,966 followersAnn Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.
Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
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Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
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June 14, 2023
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Most people know Ann M. Martin from her popular series, The Baby-Sitters' Club, or her preteen one-offs, like BUMMER SUMMER or ME AND KATIE (THE PEST). I had never actually heard of SLAM BOOK before, until I saw it mentioned in Gabrielle Moss's fantastic book, PAPERBACK CRUSH, where she lists some influential paperback books aimed at preteens and teens from the 70s-90s, when publishing began to discover that not only was there a niche for kids in the double-digits but also that it was $$profitable$$.
SLAM BOOK appears to be geared towards an older audience than some of Martin's other books. The "heroine," Anna, is just starting out as a freshman in high school. Right before she begins at her new school, she has a visit with her cousin, who introduces her to the concept of a "slam book." For those of you who are old (like me) and don't know what a slam book is, it's like the burn book from Mean Girls or like those apps people can download where people can anonymously ask you questions (I think one of them is called ASKfm), only it's all done in physical form, like a yearbook, where anyone who has the book can see it.
***SPOILERS AND DISCUSSION OF TRIGGERING CONTENT TO FOLLOW*
Anna's burn book is an instant hit and she and her three friends, Jessie, Randy, and Paige, get really into it. The book is passed around to the entire school where everyone gets things written out them. WHAT FUN you are thinking, because you are a fool. If you're not a fool, you're probably thinking THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL, and you would be correct, my non-fool friend. It does not end well. Not that any adults get involved. Adults weren't invented until the 2000s. Anyway, things come to a head when Paige, the rich mean one, decides that she wants a boy, so she spreads a rumor that results in him breaking up with his girlfriend. When she tries to hit on him, though, he's like EW NO, and asks Anna out instead. WHAT. DON'T YOU KNOW HOW RICH AND AWESOME PAIGE IS? SHE WILL HAVE HER REVENGE. Suddenly, Anna is being called boy-crazy and a boyfriend-stealer! That's so hurtful! It's only ok to insult OTHER people but it HURTS when you do it to Anna! DON'T YOU KNOW HOW COOL AND AWESOME ANNA IS? SHE WILL HAVE HER REVENGE.
Anna decides that the best way to humiliate Paige is by siccing the unpopular heavy girl on her. Cheryl. She tells Cheryl (through the slam book, in Paige's handwriting) that a boy named Kirk likes her. This goes on for a while until eventually Anna sets up a fake double date between Paige, Kirk, and Cheryl. Cheryl goes to Paige's house on a bicycle, dressed up in her dead mother's prom dress, and Paige answers the door and basically unleashes the power of the slam book on Cheryl in person (basically, you know, insulting her looks, her body odor, her fashion sense, her poor person poverty). Cheryl ends her life. Paige feels guilty about this and ends up trying to take hers also.
But OH NO Anna feels guilty when someone who isn't unpopular and heavy almost dies. The truth must out! SO she tells Paige, who has just had her stomach pumped or something IDK, that SHE was the one who wrote all that stuff in the slam book. Paige gets mad and Anna is like HEY I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT I DID OK YOU DON'T HAVE TO BLAME ME. Also, Anna confessed to her mom first and her mom said-- THIS IS LITERALLY PARAPHRASED FROM THE BOOK-- no Anna it's not your fault, these girls just aren't "well-adjusted" (actual word used) and you aren't to blame if you didn't hold the razor or the pill bottle. WHAT. WHAT. WHAAAAAAAAAT. *head explodes*
So anyway, Anna is like neither of us are at fault, hooray no consequences, and everyone who isn't Cheryl lives happily ever after.
This book was published in the 90s when bullying really wasn't treated the same way it was now. I grew up in the 90s/early 2000s and I can tell you that administrations liked to keep a hands-off approach when it came to bullying and harassment. When I was the same age as Anna, actually, I was being bullied. I had a group of people following me around, calling me several slurs, threatening me with physical violence, shoving me in the halls, and encouraging me to end my life. They harassed me online and offline and when my mom complained to the administration and told them I'd been keeping logs, they were like IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN ON CAMPUS WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT SO GOOD LUCK WITH THAT BYE. Because-- remember-- adults weren't invented until the 2000s.
It wasn't until a number of high profile cases of MySpace harassment and bullying that culminated in suicide went viral that adults started to think, WOW, I GUESS ONLINE BULLYING ACTUALLY FOMENTS IRL BULLYING AND VICE-VERSA? WE PROBABLY SHOULDN'T TOLERATE THIS. Because it's finally the 2000s and adults remembered that not only were they invented now but that teens probably shouldn't be left to their own unsupervised devices on the wild west of the internet. You see all these people on Twitter boo-hooing about how X slur or Y harassment kept them from getting into their college of choice because boo hoo hoo it was the internet and everyone's mean. Anyone who's well-adjusted with a sense of humor understands an LOL or an internet funny JEEZ. But the fact of the matter is, words have consequences and sometimes they leave wounds that can outlast any bruise. Part of growing up is learning how to be accountable for one's treatment of others.
WHICH IS WHY THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK WAS SO INFURIATING TO ME. Because it's basically like "welp, she was weak and sad so sucks for her but also not our fault, BYE." No one really gets any real consequences for their actions and the only one who experiences REAL guilt over what she did is Paige, who is then immediately told not to worry about it. In some ways, it's a rather keen snapshot into how bullying and accountability was viewed in the 90s and 00s. But it's also a pretty toxic and infuriating mess, too, because it ages so badly that it almost seems to suggest that the kids who get bullied are asking for it in some way. The way that Randy's ethnicity (Black) was handled was also pretty clumsy. She's bullied for being an "Oreo" (a pejorative term for someone who is Black but acts "white") but nobody is ever punished for this and Randy just sort of ends up sucking it up. Also, there's an infuriating scene in the beginning of the book where Paige is shoplifting and like lalala FREE STUFF and Randy is like NOT COOL and the other girls are like OH MY GOD WHAT A SPOILSPORT WHY IS SHE STORMING OFF? Which would be a great teaching moment for how Black people are stalked in stores while people like Paige get off scot-free but NOPE. Paige isn't punished and Randy is just way lame, you guys, omg. At the end of the book, Randy is talking with her mom and she's like I'M GLAD MY CLIQUE DISBANDED and I'm thinking, Randy is literally the only sane person in this entire book and why is she not the heroine??? #RandyForPresident2024.
*exhales deeply*
So obviously I hated this book. Until about 80% I liked it just fine but then it went all "NO REAL CONSEQUENCES LALALALALALA" and I wanted to launch it into a solar flare.
Ann M. Martin, you make me sad. I thought we were cool.
1 star
August 6, 2020
I checked this book out of the library over and over as a kid. The slam book concept was so fascinating to me and I loved how much darker/more mature it was than BSC. I just bought a used copy and reread it as an adult for the first time in years.
I remember thinking as a kid that Anna was so cool, but now I just think she’s a bad person and a bad friend. If this book was written today then I think Randy would be the main character instead of Anna. I found Randy so much more interesting this time around than Anna and wished she’d had more scenes. I definitely saw more flaws in the writing and storyline this time around, but this book is so nostalgic for me that I’m sure I’ll reread it again in the future.
I remember thinking as a kid that Anna was so cool, but now I just think she’s a bad person and a bad friend. If this book was written today then I think Randy would be the main character instead of Anna. I found Randy so much more interesting this time around than Anna and wished she’d had more scenes. I definitely saw more flaws in the writing and storyline this time around, but this book is so nostalgic for me that I’m sure I’ll reread it again in the future.
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October 20, 2011Slam books are of course the 80s/90s version of the burn book made famous in Tina Fey's "Mean Girls". A book put together my adolescent teenage girls with a lot of hormones and aggression and a need to bitch about their peers. I read this book in grade eight and still remember it 13 years later because I skipped the after school special message of the book ("don't be a mean girl!") and jumped straight into the idea of "let's make a slam book". It didn't end well.
I can't really speak to how well the book was written, but like most books by Ann M Marting, it dealt with some issues of race, some issues of growing up, and as I recall, it was neatly wrapped up in the end.
I can't really speak to how well the book was written, but like most books by Ann M Marting, it dealt with some issues of race, some issues of growing up, and as I recall, it was neatly wrapped up in the end.
October 5, 2012
I bet you $10 that Taylor Swift owns this book.
May 28, 2019
Remember when slam books were a thing? Analog social media bullying. This book is horrible - think 13 Reasons Why - but in that very specific Ann M. Martin way*, so...how do you even rate that?? But uh it does include specific information on how to commit suicide, which I feel like even in the 80s an editor should've made a note on. Also after their first date a dude kisses a chick on the forehead; like...wtf? Is this how AMM thinks heterosexuals behave? (I mean, I wouldn't know either, but I feel like it's not. It's not, right?)
* Black girl called an "Oreo" as an insult and called a cleaning lady; that is the full extent of the racism faced in this book; I think these are literally the only two racist acts AMM knows about. Character has such a weird fucking name (who the fuck names a child "Gooz"?! And AMM seems to really like the name Randy/Randi for a girl) that you know they're named after a specific person she knew. Being fat and ugly are character flaws. "Teen" narrator talks like a 50-year-old lady, and is a complete asshole we're supposed to feel bad for for some reason. The only thing missing is an I Love Lucy and/or Wizard of Oz reference. I sound harsh, but I'm really not. AMM's writing isn't and never has been good, but I ate it up as a child. I only own a copy of this book to complete a collection of her work (well, it's still not complete, but getting there). I thought I had read this one as a kid, but it's not familiar at all, so I guess I'm thinking of something else. But I would've been all about tHe dRaMa as a kid.
* Black girl called an "Oreo" as an insult and called a cleaning lady; that is the full extent of the racism faced in this book; I think these are literally the only two racist acts AMM knows about. Character has such a weird fucking name (who the fuck names a child "Gooz"?! And AMM seems to really like the name Randy/Randi for a girl) that you know they're named after a specific person she knew. Being fat and ugly are character flaws. "Teen" narrator talks like a 50-year-old lady, and is a complete asshole we're supposed to feel bad for for some reason. The only thing missing is an I Love Lucy and/or Wizard of Oz reference. I sound harsh, but I'm really not. AMM's writing isn't and never has been good, but I ate it up as a child. I only own a copy of this book to complete a collection of her work (well, it's still not complete, but getting there). I thought I had read this one as a kid, but it's not familiar at all, so I guess I'm thinking of something else. But I would've been all about tHe dRaMa as a kid.
October 28, 2021
(CW: self-harm, suicide)
Well, this was a ride, and a far cry from The Babysitters' Club. I'm also wondering if Heathers was influenced by it since the movie premiered two years after the book was published and there are some similar plot lines, particularly Cheryl's arc.
This book is a weird combination of both not pulling punches but also refusing to let the fallout occur with any kind of consequences for the instigators. Cheryl commits suicide, Paige tries to commit suicide, Jessica's brother is a drug addict... but aside from poor Cheryl, pretty much everyone gets a happy ending with no real punishment. I guess Martin wanted to show the ugly side of bullying but also didn't want a bummer ending.
For 1987, I think this would be a pretty ground-breaking cautionary tale. I don't think slam books (physical ones, at least) are still a thing in 2021, but I don't know if they died out or just moved online. Sadly, many of the basic elements of bullying remain the same across the decades.
Well, this was a ride, and a far cry from The Babysitters' Club. I'm also wondering if Heathers was influenced by it since the movie premiered two years after the book was published and there are some similar plot lines, particularly Cheryl's arc.
This book is a weird combination of both not pulling punches but also refusing to let the fallout occur with any kind of consequences for the instigators. Cheryl commits suicide, Paige tries to commit suicide, Jessica's brother is a drug addict... but aside from poor Cheryl, pretty much everyone gets a happy ending with no real punishment. I guess Martin wanted to show the ugly side of bullying but also didn't want a bummer ending.
For 1987, I think this would be a pretty ground-breaking cautionary tale. I don't think slam books (physical ones, at least) are still a thing in 2021, but I don't know if they died out or just moved online. Sadly, many of the basic elements of bullying remain the same across the decades.
January 25, 2012
I picked this book up expecting it to be a humorous take on the old slam book craze, but I found it to be very serious, even a bit of a tearjerker in a couple of places. It was written by the author of The Babysitters Club, but this is not a book for children. I was very young when this was written so I don't remember if bullying was as hot a topic as it is today, and if this were to be rewritten today, I think it would need more serious consequences for the bullying.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. I was drawn to the characters and couldn't put the book down until I knew how it ended. It's very short, around 150 pages so the character development simple yet well done, the story line moves along quickly.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. I was drawn to the characters and couldn't put the book down until I knew how it ended. It's very short, around 150 pages so the character development simple yet well done, the story line moves along quickly.
April 27, 2019
I think I read this as a kid..reread..surprised how much I did not like it. I was a fan of other books that dealt wit h this subject matter but this one I could not get involved in.
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I have read so many books o n bullying but this one seemed awfully tame in a sense but also horrific with the suicide. I applaud the book's message and it was way ahead of its time in a sense. The issue for me was that, having read so many of these types of books, I could not really engage at all. The book is clearly dated and I never felt like anything I was reading was real. It wasn't my favorite.
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I have read so many books o n bullying but this one seemed awfully tame in a sense but also horrific with the suicide. I applaud the book's message and it was way ahead of its time in a sense. The issue for me was that, having read so many of these types of books, I could not really engage at all. The book is clearly dated and I never felt like anything I was reading was real. It wasn't my favorite.
February 13, 2019
I loved this book when I read it as a tween and re-read many times because of the serious topic. I was a huge Ann Martin fan. Not sure if I would enjoy as much as an adult but loved it as an omen of our future Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook social/cyber bullying.
January 24, 2014
God I loved this back when I was a kid....
March 15, 2019
I mean, there were some issues with the book, some race comments, etc. - but the overall theme was great - how bullying truly is and how sad
December 22, 2021
what the actual fuck
December 1, 2020
Anna tries to gain popularity by trashing her high school classmates, but soon she’ll discover some comments can never be taken back.
Switch the physical composition notebook with social media, and this sad and shocking cautionary tale about rumors gone awry is as relevant today as it was in 1987!
Switch the physical composition notebook with social media, and this sad and shocking cautionary tale about rumors gone awry is as relevant today as it was in 1987!
August 14, 2019
More like 2.5
Boof. This book.
At least it’s short and fast-paced!
#justiceforcheryl #annaisamurderer #lockherup
Boof. This book.
At least it’s short and fast-paced!
#justiceforcheryl #annaisamurderer #lockherup
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January 3, 2022
This book was well-paced and beautiful; it was really captivating and it handled social issues very well
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September 21, 2010This book horrified me as a pre-teen. I think slam books are up there with rainbow parties as things-that-never-happened-except-that-once-but-were-thought-to-be-a-sweeping-new-trend-terrifying-the-populace... but yeah, I still remember the premise vividly. It's a pretty far departure from the BSC series.
January 27, 2013
I read this as a child. I know I really liked it back then. I need to read it again though..
January 1, 2016
Horrified me as a kid. Very different from the author's Babysitters' Club series.
December 8, 2018
How do you review an absolutely insane book by the author of the Babysitters Club? Disturbing.
September 29, 2023
I read The Little Sisters series before I read the Babysitters Club. Little Sisters is a spinoff of Babysitters Club and is about Kirsty's seven-year-old stepsister, Karen. So, that was my background on Ann Martin's writing. I had no idea she wrote this dark YA novel or was...even inspired to. It took me awhile to reconcile that. I wanted to reconcile my emotions before looking for this book. Many talked about how dark this book was, and how her writing changed so much between this and Babysitters Club. It...uh...sort of. The style is similar but that's it. The content, setting and POVs are definitely not what she got into later on.
TW: completed suicide; attempted suicide; bullying; grief.
A girl dies because the bullying is so bad, is how I will gently describe it. Someone else tries to die as a result, and I was -not- impressed. The attempt did not seem out of guilt, but...like she was trying to escape consequences of her mean-spirited prank. Cold hearted of me, but these are fictional characters. Anyway the attempt is not completed. Martin's writing is so lackluster and vague that I couldn't really feel any alarm. I felt mild curiosity and reread a few pages until I felt I fully understood. She skims over her own plot lines and is scant with details in her own book, for her own writing. I didn't expect anything grand but c'mon, I know she writes normally with more detail.
And you're telling me that Slam Books wouldn't be all over the whole school, with multiple kids making multiple books for themselves? Slam books used to be huge. There would be more than one! They would be hidden or traded or whatever. It's easy to make and circulate them. Not only for kids in your school, but also kids in your neighborhood could have separate notebooks for you. It wouldn't be just one book in one school, I think. "Mean Girls" kiiiiind of touched on this with their Burn Book, but that was somewhat different and had -wildly- different consequences. Judy Blume's character Sheila makes slam books for each of her friends at a sleepover. One girl cries but stays the night, and that's it. Nothing sinister or tragic like in this book. I didn't...really care about what anyone was going through. The funeral and everyone's grief felt...off. This was Martin's writing. I -wanted- to feel sad and shocked, but did not really.
I'm glad I read this so I could learn what else Martin was capable of.
TW: completed suicide; attempted suicide; bullying; grief.
A girl dies because the bullying is so bad, is how I will gently describe it. Someone else tries to die as a result, and I was -not- impressed. The attempt did not seem out of guilt, but...like she was trying to escape consequences of her mean-spirited prank. Cold hearted of me, but these are fictional characters. Anyway the attempt is not completed. Martin's writing is so lackluster and vague that I couldn't really feel any alarm. I felt mild curiosity and reread a few pages until I felt I fully understood. She skims over her own plot lines and is scant with details in her own book, for her own writing. I didn't expect anything grand but c'mon, I know she writes normally with more detail.
And you're telling me that Slam Books wouldn't be all over the whole school, with multiple kids making multiple books for themselves? Slam books used to be huge. There would be more than one! They would be hidden or traded or whatever. It's easy to make and circulate them. Not only for kids in your school, but also kids in your neighborhood could have separate notebooks for you. It wouldn't be just one book in one school, I think. "Mean Girls" kiiiiind of touched on this with their Burn Book, but that was somewhat different and had -wildly- different consequences. Judy Blume's character Sheila makes slam books for each of her friends at a sleepover. One girl cries but stays the night, and that's it. Nothing sinister or tragic like in this book. I didn't...really care about what anyone was going through. The funeral and everyone's grief felt...off. This was Martin's writing. I -wanted- to feel sad and shocked, but did not really.
I'm glad I read this so I could learn what else Martin was capable of.
January 12, 2020
This book was nothing like the Baby-Sitters Club. Honestly, the only real similarity I saw was that it involved a group of teenage girls, one of whom was token black girl with a unisex name who faced racial discrimination. This book discussed a lot of tough topics in its 160 pages, including bullying, suicide, alcoholism, racism, classism, and parental neglect. However, none of the topics were covered in detail. I would have liked to have seen less breadth but more depth. Lastly, the character's suicide was described in graphic detail. I would have preferred not to have that knowledge. Overall, I am giving this book 2 stars.
May 15, 2023
SPOILERS (but like who is gonna read this)
This was an... interesting book. It was surprisingly progressive as far as face and topics of suicide, and it kinda reminded me of Heathers, which is funny since it actually came out before the movie. The main character, Anna, was not very likable though, and I wish we got to see more of Randy and Jessie. This was like 150 pages and still took me a month to get through- I will say I was busy with school but still, I think that points to this book not being very captivating. Overall a somewhat enjoyable little read found in the depths of my mom's old books from the 80s.
3.5 stars
This was an... interesting book. It was surprisingly progressive as far as face and topics of suicide, and it kinda reminded me of Heathers, which is funny since it actually came out before the movie. The main character, Anna, was not very likable though, and I wish we got to see more of Randy and Jessie. This was like 150 pages and still took me a month to get through- I will say I was busy with school but still, I think that points to this book not being very captivating. Overall a somewhat enjoyable little read found in the depths of my mom's old books from the 80s.
3.5 stars
April 22, 2020
“Slam Book” is like the 80’s version of Mean Girls, and the plot is realistic. That’s what made the book seem interesting at first, and reading it was a little like reading Sweet Valley High novels. The thing is Ann M. Martin is usually more descriptive with characters and a little less graphic. But she wasn’t, I couldn’t even tell which girl was who. Another upsetting thing was how Anne seemed to care more about reputation than about feelings. Though, Ann M. Martin still has more interesting books to choose from because she’s really a great author.
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September 16, 2020
I never read this as a kid even though I always wanted to, so when I saw it in my library’s ebook catalogue I just couldn’t resist.
This might be written by Ann M. Martin, but it’s definitely not a Baby-sitters Club story! This short but impactful book proves that bullying was alive and well even in 1989, and it was definitely a shocking story. It’s obviously very dated, though, and Anna suffers no punishments for her awful deeds which really stinks. Still, for the times it was written for I think it did a good job.
I’m really glad I finally read this!
This might be written by Ann M. Martin, but it’s definitely not a Baby-sitters Club story! This short but impactful book proves that bullying was alive and well even in 1989, and it was definitely a shocking story. It’s obviously very dated, though, and Anna suffers no punishments for her awful deeds which really stinks. Still, for the times it was written for I think it did a good job.
I’m really glad I finally read this!
November 22, 2021
I read this book in fifth grade because it was by Ann M. Martin, and I thought it would be just like the Babysitter’s Club. I was VERY WRONG. This book is very good, but don’t read it if you are sensitive to death, suicide, or alcohol abuse. And especially don’t let a 10 year old read it unsupervised.
This book really does capture the feeling of ninth grade and everything you tend to encounter. It was very similar to my ninth grade experience (except for a slam book being in the middle of it.) If you’re looking for a nice read, and you’re above the age of 13, I highly recommend it.
This book really does capture the feeling of ninth grade and everything you tend to encounter. It was very similar to my ninth grade experience (except for a slam book being in the middle of it.) If you’re looking for a nice read, and you’re above the age of 13, I highly recommend it.
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January 16, 2020
It takes a unique skill to take a book where pretty much all the characters are horrid and unlikable and still make it well very good.
Martin is quite skilful and her non Baby Sitter universe books are to me anyway a step above and in a different class. This was a good story, even if you did want to punch most of the characters in the face.
Ann M Martin #24
Martin is quite skilful and her non Baby Sitter universe books are to me anyway a step above and in a different class. This was a good story, even if you did want to punch most of the characters in the face.
Ann M Martin #24
June 28, 2024
Kindle recommended this book to me. I remembered reading it in middle school and liking it. It was on sale for 50 cents. So, I bought it because I was curious if I would still think it was good. The answer is, no. It did not age well. The best part was that it was short and it allowed me to reach my goal of reading 30 books by the end of June.
January 1, 2024
This was a book I liked when I was a preteen. I didn't remember anything about it thought expect about Cheryl. It was very controversial at the time but also relevant. Anna's parents reaction to her confession was totally ridiculous though.
September 1, 2019
BAD GIRLS
September 12, 2019
I read this book in elementary school and it has always stayed with me. I was definitely too young to fully understand all the themes but it still made a huge impact.
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