Sk8er Boy

OMG! i love this book! The first time i read it i couldnt stop! I usually don't read ever but somethins about this book just got me really into it. People have to read this book like no joke

Fifteen years old Dawn Miller cannot believe that perfect grades, shopping with her girlfriends and joining every highly regarded extracurricular activity sanctioned by her parents is all there is to life. She is bored and tired and figures Harvard, her parents' goal for her, is still a few years away. Dawn decides it is time to break out of prison, but she must hide her escape from "The Evil Ones" who will punish her by a combination of grounding her and increasing her Harvard bound activities. Still sneaking out of the yearbook committee meeting is easy but to what remains the question. What is answered when she makes a new friend Starr, who introduces her to world of parking garage skateboarding. This is an exciting rebellious act on Dawn's part, but revolution is farthest from her mind when she meets intelligent and nice sk8er Sean McNally. She knows The Evil Ones would denounce this heart throb as a punk from the wrong side of town, but then again they would censure any boy wanting to date her before she graduates from Harvard. SK8ER BOY is a fabulous look at a teen in rebellion from her parents who have orchestrated every nanosecond of her life targeting Harvard as their child's only goal. Dawn is terrific as she is a teenage chick lit heroine providing asides and soliloquies about her life and the evil wardens who dictate her entire existence. Mari Mancusi cleverly captures the needs of youth seeking freedom in this delightful contemporary tale. Harriet Klausner

Good girl Dawn Miller has been living under her father's guidance for way too long. She's signed up for a bajillion after-school activities in an attempt to make it into her father's alma mater. She hangs out with the totally trendy Populars, who only acknowledge the presence of those who wear pink. And she's dated the rich, popular jocks - such as the current bore, Brent Baker III - who are more obnoxious than a five-year-old kid on a sugar high. Just for once, Dawn wants to see what it's like to live her life by her own rules. She wants to see what it's like to leave behind the good girl persona, and embrace the life of a bad girl. One who meets all kinds of cool new people, like Starr, the headmaster's totally punk-rock daughter; and pierces her bellybutton without permission. She wants to date a hot skater boy from the wrong side of the tracks whom her parents hate, and fall in love via text messaging with said skater boy. And this year, that's exactly what Dawn plans on doing... Amazing. That's the only way to describe Mari Mancusi's SK8ER BOY. SK8ER BOY contains all the elements that will make pre-teen and teen girls rush out to bookstores to get their hands on Mancusi's debut: rebellion, hot guys, pierced bellybuttons, and text messaging. Each character possesses their own look-at-me attention-grabbing antics that will keep readers turning pages, and begging for more. Featuring actual text messages between Dawn and her skater boy, Sean, that will make readers think of the Hilary Duff/Chad Michael Murray romance depicted in the movie A CINDERELLA STORY, SK8ER BOY is a marvelous book that must hold a place in everyone's library. Erika Sorocco Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper