Who Needs Boys?

I loved this book!! I loved everything about it. I think that the author did a really good job with it. I look forward to buying this book. This book comes highly recommended from me!! You wont be left disappointed..trust me!! Enjoy!!

Ali is beautiful, and she knows how to handle boys. However, her confidence is shaken when her father unexpectedly cancels her trip to his place in California for the summer. Suddenly without plans, Ali decides to join her friends working at a farm stand. There she meets Tad and his older brother Rand. Tad is her age, and treats her with disdain. He thinks she is a prissy little princess who doesn't know how to work. Ali doesn't care-she prefers his older brother, Rand. When Ali goes on a camping trip trip with Rand, Tad, their family, and her friend Natalie, she finds out what a jerk Rand really is. Is it possible that Tad....a mere boy....might be the guy for her?

At first, the chance to spend the summer working on a farm holds no appeal to Ally; after all, she is going to go see her dad in LA, finally, and she is so not into dirt, even though there might be the chance to see boys. For a girl in an all female school, that's a big deal. Then, her plans crash and burn, so Ally is forced to either face a summer all alone while her friends work on the farm with boys or finagle herself a job with them, despite all the slots being filled. Her finagling is successful, therefore, Ally soon finds herself teamed up with the best worker on the farm, who happens to be the younger brother to both her teacher and the hottest of the guys there and has a real attitude problem in regards to her. Tad seems to consider her fluff, and a waste of his time. Well, that's okay, his very fine brother likes her, even inviting her on a family camping trip with him. Despite not being an outdoors person, Ally accepts. Then, a chance comment or two, a bet, and a bit of kindness change everything. **** Like Ally, the book itself is more than it seems. Her lostness and neediness will speak to the young readers who are in a broken home, and her triumph will give them hope. With the feeling of an old fashioned romance from years ago, Ally and Tad's story is heartwarming on multiple levels. ****

Fourteen-year-old Allie Morrison is ecstatic about leaving boring Massachusetts behind, and heading to hot, celebrity-filled Los Angeles to spend the summer with her father. Sure she'll miss her three best friends, Frances, Blue, and Natalie - all whom have summer jobs working at their Latin teacher, Sam Novak's, shop Sam's Farm Stand - but getting to see her father is going to be a blast. That is, until Allie's father calls to say that the trip is cancelled due to his pregnant wife's latest ailment, leaving Allie on her own for the summer, with no father, or mother - seeing as how her so-called loving mother isn't ever around for more than 5 minutes at a time. Luckily, Allie is able to find a position working alongside her friends at Sam's Farm Stand, where she is quickly assigned to work with Sam's fourteen-year-old brother, Tad, who is nothing more than a turd. Allie prefers Rand, Sam's eighteen-year-old brother, who makes her mouth water at the mere sight of him. Now, if he would only start to notice her. Stephie Davis has a knack for creating characters that every teenage girl can relate to. Her true-to-life situations bring each story she tells to life, and make the reader feel as if they are reading about themselves, or their best friend. Her hip prose will appeal to pre-teen and teenage girls, as they will feel as if they are being spoken to, rather than spoken down to, which is always a plus when choosing books. A fabulous book that MUST be read by all. Erika Sorocco Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

In Massachusetts, fourteen years old Allie Morrison looks forward to spending the summer with her father in Los Angeles. Since her parents divorced, she rarely sees him. For that matter she never sees her mother either though she lives with her. Mom is too busy at work or on dates so Allie lives on frozen pizza. While she is in California, her best friends, Blue, Natalie, and Frances all have jobs at Sam's Farm Stand, run and owned by Latin schoolteacher Sam Novak. The day before she is to fly to the West Coast, her father cancels the trip claiming his pregnant wife is ailing. A despondent Allie has no mom around to empathize with her. Allie manages to get work at Sam's Farm Stand. Sam assigns her to work with his younger brother Tad who is Allie's age. He is nasty to her besides being too young; his eighteen years old brother Rand is much nicer towards her and the right age. As Allie adjusts to field work from being a teen Fashionista, her three friends bet stuffed bras as to whether she becomes the girlfriend of the younger brother. WHO NEEDS BOYS? is a fabulous young teen angst tale starring a terrific lock key protagonist. The story line focuses on Allie, inadvertently abandoned by her parents, but the consequences of feeling discarded are powerful and deftly described in her philosophy of life: be dumped or do the dumping rather quickly. Though a confrontation with mom deals to easily with the estrangement, young adults will appreciate Stephie Davis' fine tale that requires Natalie the runner needing a boyfriend, preferably a non-athletic nerd. Harriet Klausner