More Than a Crush

by Linda Lewis

Overview

It seems that every boy Linda Berman likes wants to be with someone else. And Linda is not interested in the boys that like her! It’s hard to learn all the rules for meeting, dating and breaking up, but this year Linda and her friends are getting a lot of practice….

Previously published as We Only Like Older Boys.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442467972
Publisher:	Simon Pulse
Publication date:	06/12/2012
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Linda Lewis has been a successful author and freelance writer for more than twenty-five years. Her career blossomed with the publication of her first book, We Hate Everything But Boys. She went on to write a series of eleven young adult novels, published by Simon & Schuster, between 1985 and 1993. The realistic and humorous stories are based on her diaries and experiences growing up in New York City. Lewis’s adult novel, The Road Back to Heaven, was published in April 2007 by Baycrest Books. In addition, Lewis has had hundreds of articles published in national newspapers and magazines, mostly business and travel. Lewis is still married to Lenny, her childhood sweetheart, whose adventures were chronicled in her books. They live today in Boynton Beach, Florida. They have two children and a grandson.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 6-8 Thirteen-year-old Linda Berman has two important goals to reach during eighth grade: dating older boys and placing in the top ten percent of her class at her academically demanding school. Linda and her three best friends, the Gruesome Four, stalk boys on the subway, in the bowling alley, at the park, and in front of the candy store. Such effort inevitably pays with a dividend of parties (chaperoned and not) accompanied by kissing games of many varieties. Beyond picturing the awkwardness of adolescent courtship rituals, Lewis explores the nature of friendship among girls and theirs with boys. The first-person narration allows the story to be told in a warm, funny way. Excellent dialogue enhances the story's flow. The jock, the genius, the troublemaker, and the flip-flop romances all ring true. Lack of skillful foreshadowing makes the turn-around ending seem a bit unbelievable, but most of the girls who read this book will have had too much fun to notice. Cindy Darling Codell, Belmont Junior High School, Winchester, Ky.

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