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| Original Title: | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks |
| ISBN: | 0786838183 (ISBN13: 9780786838189) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Frankie Landau-Banks, Matthew Livingston |
| Setting: | Massachusetts(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2009), South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2011), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2010), Florida Teens Read Nominee (2009), Iowa Teen Award Nominee (2011) Lincoln Award Nominee (2011), Cybils Award for Young Adult Fiction (2008), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2008), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2011) |
E. Lockhart
Hardcover | Pages: 345 pages Rating: 3.82 | 44236 Users | 5309 Reviews
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Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club. Her father's "bunny rabbit." A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.
Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer and possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way.
Frankie Landau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer. Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. Not when her ex-boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places. Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them. When she knows Matthew's lying to her. And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.
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| Title | : | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks |
| Author | : | E. Lockhart |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 345 pages |
| Published | : | March 25th 2008 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Teen |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 44236 Users | 5309 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
How is it that this book so popular and well received? Frankie Landau-Banks is a bright, witty girl with issues. Lots and lots of issues which never get resolved let alone addressed. We meet her at the beginning of her sophomore year at the highly prestigious boarding school, Alabaster Preparatory Academy. In a moment that is clearly a blatant Threes Company rip-off, Frankie is so distracted by the butt of her longtime crush, Matthew Livingston, that she falls from her bicycle. Matthew hears theA solid, teen, feminist novel!I really enjoy e. lockhart's writing and this book didn't let me down! A story about a girl navigating a boarding school where boys have some /special/ privileges over girls, she starts to fight against that system. I liked the main character, enjoyed the boarding school setting, and really appreciated the feminist angle. My only reason for not giving this 5 stars is that I don't think that a) it did anything particularly new with plot or character development, and
The library loaned me an ARC! Bad library! Reading it anyway.Now that I'm finished:I feel like someone poured my head out into a book. And then revised it for the consumption of myself, age 11. You guys I am seriously considering building a time machine for the sole purpose of bringing this book back to myself as a preteen. It would have soothed a lot of nerves, I can tell you that, and then about ten years later it would have served as a memory-beacon. E. Lockhart just totally nails so many
Next time I see a 15-year-old girl reading Twilight, I will promptly yoink it from her hands and replace it with this. (As long as she's not already dressed as a vampire.)
I've pushed through to 100 pages, but I just can't go on. For all its braininess, this book feels very juvenile to me, except that girls in most middle grade books are rarely this boy-crazy--and few of them have so little else going on their lives.Here are some things that make it feel very young to me:--the story seems to be centered around a "caper" in which Frankie tries to infiltrate a secret boys club--three boys who don't recognize Frankie after her body develops (or pretend not to,
This book has aged so well. I am continually impressed with this author's compelling story-lines and unforgettable characters, and this book is no exception. Frankie's feminist ideologies and consistent challenging of the patriarchy made this book have continual resonance and relevance today. Definitely one of the thematically strongest contemporary stories I have read.
Frankie Landau-Banks was such a breath of fresh air. I absolutely loved her character and how she questioned literally everything about how boys and girls are treated in relationships and the real world. I was living for the boarding school secret society shenanigans and how Frankie was holding a middle finger up to the patriarchy but in such a brilliant and untraceable way. Every girl, teenage or otherwise, needs to get their hands on this book and enjoy witnessing a man's world get turned
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