Friday, November 16, 2012

All American Girl by Meg Cabot




Cabot, Meg. All American Girl. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN-13: 9780061479892. Paperback. USD $8.99. 

Awards/Honors
-#1 New York Times Best Seller on its Children's Chapter Book List; 6-week run on list
-A Publishers Weekly Best Seller
-10-week run on the New York Times Children's Paperback Best Seller List
-A Publishers Weekly and a BookSense Best Seller (paperback)
-Selected for the Fall 2002 Children's BookSense 76 List
-Selected for the Texas Lone Star Reading List for the 2003-2004 school year
-Chosen by the New York Public Library as a 2003 "Book for the Teen Age"
-Chosen by the ALA as a 2006 Popular Paperback for Young Adults: Books That Don't Make You Blush: No Dirty Laundry Here
-Won Washington State's 2005 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
-Nominated for the 2007 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
-Nominated for the 2007 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award



Annotation:
Note to self: when you save the President, your life may never be the same. Samantha learns this the hard way.



Booktalk:

Samantha Madison’s Top 10 Predicaments:  

10- Middle child syndrome... enough said. 

9- Sam doesn’t understand why her older sister, Lucy, is THAT popular. 

8- Why did Sam’s parents have to give her younger sister, Rebecca, all of the brains in the family? 

7- Jack, Lucy’s boyfriend, is really more Sam’s type. When is he going to see that? 

8- Sam is forced to attend art classes as a type of punishment from her parents. This is their way of cleaning up her act after wrongfully selling her celebrity drawings to classmates. 

7- Skipping art class was a mistake. While doing this, the President of the United States is right in front of Sam’s eyes, walking right into a bakery that is next to her music store. The other guy that sees the President is not as shocked as Sam. He planned on seeing him then and there. He also planned on killing the President. 

6- Sam is now in the hospital after jumping on the attacker and knows that she just saved the President’s life. 

5- Sam is labeled a national hero. 

4- The President has made Sam the teen ambassador. 

3- The President’s son, who is in her art class, has a crush on her. 

2- Sam has a crush on the President’s son. 

1- But is still in love with Jack, her sister’s boyfriend.   


Quirky Booktalk:



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