This comic look at the vicissitudes of the dating game stars Rosie, who can't seem to snag the boy she really wants; in PW 's words, "The description of teen boys' kisses is hilariously, achingly perceptive." Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 7-9--Sixteen-year-old Rosie is date crazy. As an only child whose parents have been divorced for four years, she tries to cure her loneliness by accepting any and all dates. Not only is she insuf ferably conceited about her own good looks and is as superficial about boys' looks, but she is actually proud of being vain and shallow. For Rosie, the Plain view Mall is the whole world. She has a crush on her best friend Jeannie's brother, Handsome Harry, and indeed they deserve each other. Jeannie falls for Spud, a fully costumed employee at the Potato Man whose face she never sees. While Jeannie tries to show Rosie that looks aren't everything, the insipid Rosie doesn't grow a bit in the story's development and fittingly ends up with Harry. While the descriptions of the mall are humorous and even somewhat futuristic (a dance hall, Club Mall, that holds 10,000 teens, for example), the characterizations are so exaggerated, Rosie is so obnoxious, and the theme is so trite as to render the book as superfi cial as Rosie herself.
-Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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