Papademetriou, Lisa. How To Be A Girly Girl In Just Ten Days. New York: Scholastic, 2007. 163 pages. (Fiction / Candy Apple Series)

The book I read was How to Be a Girly Girl in Just Ten Days. The main characters are Nick, Lindsay, Hannah, and Ben. The story takes place mostly in their school, but in a party too. Nick is a total tomboy who’s more interested in getting new basketball shoes then lip gloss and make up like the rest of the girls in her class. And after basketball practice one night “she gets invited to one of Hannah’s parties.” But that all changes, when she meets the new kid, Ben, because Ben is into the girly girls, like Hannah, Nick decides in order to get his attention she has to become a girly girl. To help her do is her best friend Lindsay, who also has a crush, but it’s a secret. The two of them go shopping first, and find nothing, so they go to the food court and have a snack; while they’re there they see Hannah. Hannah was not only the most popular girl through out the whole school, and the supper star on the basketball team, but also Nick’s and Lindsay’s worst enemy. So of course she had to come over and make fun of them some how. After that they finally found the perfect store. They got what they wanted and left. After a while of observing how Nick acts around guys, Lindsay decides to teach Nick how to talk to guys. In order to test her ability, Lindsay takes her to a reunion that her family is having. She does well till she sees Ben there. It went well till they all started dancing. By the time they got home Lindsay decides Nick is almost ready she just needs to use make up. They went to a little make up shop, and the owner Charlie was there and gave them ideas on what to put on and some free samples. Lindsay thinks she’s ready now.

I think the book was ok, but I would have picked some thing else if I had known really what the book was like. It wasn’t one of those books that you just can’t put down, but it wasn’t one that you would never pick up again.

Reviewed by: Mator1313