Dean, Zoey. Talent. NY: Penguin Group, 2008. 288 pages. (Fiction)My book review was on Zoey Dean’s Talent. There are four main characters: Mackenzie (Mac), Coco, Rebecca (Becks), and Emily, they are all entering high school. This story takes place in Los Angeles just before school starts. Mac has no talent but tries encouraging a girl from a party she went to to be an actress. Emily faked her way in the party and Mac realized that Emily had talent. Her mom tries to tell her that she’s not cut out to be an agent but Mac pursues her dream. Mac had to turn Emily into a boy by changing her style because the role in the movie, Sea Devils, was for a boy. Some interesting things that happened in the book were that Becks got hit in the face by a football when she was on the beach. While I was reading it, I felt that you don’t have to be cool or rich to become what you want to become. The reason it was a teens book is because it speaks to teens by having a teen in the book with a teen life and the same issues that teens today have. I highly recommend that teens should read this book!
Reviewed by: BrownieLover101
