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All's Fair in Love, War, and High School
Janette Rallison
Manufacturer: Walker Books for Young Readers
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Book Description
When your chance for getting into college and your date for the prom are all on the line…
Sixteen-year-old Samantha Taylor is used to having things go her way. She’s head cheerleader and has all the right friends and a steady stream of boyfriends. But when she tanks the SATs, her automatic assumptions about going to college don’t appear to be so automatic anymore. She determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president. Unfortunately, with her razor wit and acid tongue she’s bettersuited to dishing out insults than winning votes.
When she brashly bets her classmate Logan that she can go two weeks without uttering a single insult, Samantha immediately realizes that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. And when her current boyfriend dumps her, less than three weeks before the prom, it couldn’t be a worse time to be forced to keep her opinions to herself. Finding a new boyfriend will be a challenge now that Logan shadows her every move, hoping to catch her slipping back into her old ways. Samantha is determined to win the election and find a dream date for the prom, no matter what it takes. After all . . . all’s fair in love and war (and high school!).
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Delightful Read.......2007-06-06
All's Fair in Love, War, and High School is a great teen book. It's a story about Samantha, a popular, head cheerleader, who decides to run for class president after she bombs her SATs. Also, her ex-boyfriend/coworker makes a bet with her that she can't go two weeks without insulting someone.
Janette Rallison creates realistic teen dialogue and situations that teens can actually relate to. This book also shows how teens think and rethink through situations to try and find the correct solution. The twists and turns of the story are just enough to keep readers interested and guessing until the very end. In the end, All's Fair in Love, War, and High School is a delightful, quick read for anyone who wants to escape the drama of their own life.
Wonderful book!.......2007-01-25
"All's Fair in Love,war, and High School" is a wonderful book!
It all starts out when Samantha gets a low SAT score. She figured that her scores were to low to get into a good college, so she decides to run for class president hoping that it would look good in her colledge applications, after Logan said that he got accepted into one of the
colleges because he had "leadership qualities."
When Samantha told Logan that she was deciding to run for president and needed someone to help her make the campiens, Logan laughs and says," Samantha, you can't walk into a room of six people without
insulting five of them." So Samantha makes a bet with Logan that she
could go a week without insulting anyone, but it turns out to be harder
than it seems.
This book is a wonderful book, I recommend it to people who enjoy
a good novel. It deals with clique programs and if you try really hard,
you might be able to achieve what you want.I think "All's Fair in Love,War,and Highschool" is a book that many people can relate to.
-C.P.
from loser to winner overnight?.......2006-08-14
Samantha Taylor is a cheerleader whom everyone thinks has a perfect life. Well, think again. She bombed the SAT, got dumped by her boyfriend three weeks before prom, and is campaigning (and possibly losing) for student council president. On top of all that, she got roped into a bet with an old boyfriend that she can't go two weeks without insulting anyone. But Samantha is determined to live up to everyone's expectations and win-- the bet, the election, a date for prom, and a better score, and she'll go to no lengths to reach her goals. You know what they say: all's fair in love, war, and high school. This book is cute and clever, and though at first you will think of Samantha as ruthless, you will soon come to empathize with her and genuinely want her to win.
Must Read.......2006-05-03
This is a very very good book. I would have to say this is my favorite book. This story starts out as Samantha gets her SAT scores, and they turn out not so good. She recieves a very low score on the tests. In order to get into a good college she has to get some more credits. A class election comes up, and Samantha decides to run for the class president. Logan sees how much Samantha and her friends criticize everyone, so he makes a bet with Sam. Samantha has to go two weeks without criticizing someone or she will have to go out with a very unpopular guy named Doug, and if Samantha wins, Logan has to take Sam on a date of her choice. Little does Logan know, that Sam istrying her hardest to win the bet so she can go to prom with her crush Logan. Will Samantha or Logan win the bet?
Ever since I read the back of this book, it caught my attention. In this book you will find out everything that happens in a teen's life. This book includes everything from boys to school. I like this book because it taught me a lot how I shouldn't talk about other people, because it really hurts their feelings. It also taught me to not judge a person by how they look or who they hang out with, and that the only thing that counts it what is on the inside. This book inspired me, will it inpire you?
All's Fair in Love, War, and High School.......2006-03-28
(All's Fair in Love, War, and High School)
By Janette Rallison
N.Lee
Period three
A teenage-level book for girls called All's Fair in Love, War, and High School is about a girl named Samantha. This teenager wants to run as class president, but there is a bet. Her friend, Logan, bet she would insult anyone for two weeks or else she would go to the prom with Doug, someone she doesn't really like. There are some problems on the way like someone wanting to cheat in the election, and Samantha worrying about her social life. Can she handle it?
There are some things I like about the book. Samantha is around my age but a little older. This book is more about a typical teenager life which includes voting, dating, friends, and of course boys. Learning how a teenager would react to certain events and knowing how a girl feels like jealously, anger, guilty, and excited can be really interesting if you are more like me. If you are a person who likes to read about proms, how girls usually think about guys in the future, and teenage life, then this is a perfect book.
On the other hand, there were some things I disliked. I really don't know what life is like when fifteen or sixteen years old and that was what I was looking for. The author paid a lot of attention on running for president. There were not very many characters to meet and the kids I had read about were just a few of Samantha's friends, Logan, Doug, and Josh. This author wrote too much about Samantha. The book doesn't really give many details about how school works. I would rather know what my life in the future will be like as a teenager.
My favorite and least favorite parts are related to choosing a boyfriend and cheating. My favorite event in the story was in the prom, she chose to be with Logan instead of her crush, Josh, because Samantha likes Logan for who he is. I dislike the part when someone cheated by putting out flyers about her test score. She was so in embarrassed and very angry, and I would fell that way, too. The book had many things I liked and disliked and also very good and bad events, too. This was what I thought about the book.
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