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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780525478966
ISBN number: 0525478965
Label: Dutton Juvenile
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: February 27, 2008
Publishing house: Dutton Juvenile
Age index: Ages 9-12
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Winnie Perry is a teenager—at last! And it’s a really big deal. A ginormous deal, which, wouldn’t you know it, brings ginormous problems along with it. Winnie’s bff #1 is growing up too slowly, while her bff #2 is growing up too fast, leaving Winnie stuck in the middle. Winnie’s boyfriend, Lars, is fabulous—except when he’s not. And as for Winnie’s family, well, BIG changes are in the air.
Bestselling author Lauren Myracle concludes her enormously popular trilogy about a winning young heroine whose humor, daring, and compassion for others is infectious and unforgettable.
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I am 12, and this is what it is like growing up. I can't wait for Fourteen to come out,this series rocks!
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Thirteen, like Lauren Myracle's previous books Eleven and Twelve, follows a year in the life of a girl named Winnie. Every chapter highlights a month in that year, following Winnie as she deals with various goings-on at school and at home.
Now in seventh grade, Winnie's got her first-ever boyfriend and isn't always sure how to act around him. She sometimes finds herself torn between her two best friends, Cinnamon and Dinah, for although the three of them get along famously, they don't always want to do the same things. Winnie remains protective of her younger brother, in awe of her older sister, and close to her parents, especially her mom.
It's been fun to watch Winnie become Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. Rumour has it this is the last Winnie book, but let's hope that there's a Fourteen - and beyond!
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it was a great book that warns everyone about crabby sisters, rude bffs, and odd boyfriends plus is a laugh a minute.
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It's always weird to drop right smack dab into the middle of a series. You never know whether you're missing out on some subtle details from the previous books, or even whether or not the book in your hand would be better if you knew its characters already. It's more of a problem with series books, I suppose. Realistic fiction doesn't contain crazy names and weird interior logics. Tween books starring girl characters supposedly are all the same too. The idea is that if you've read the Anastasia Krupnik books by Lois Lowry then you've read the Phyllis Reynolds Naylour Alice series then you've read the Lauren Myracle books, and so on and so on. Which, let's face it, isn't true at all. Tween girl heroines each have their own set of quirks and characteristics and Lauren Myracle is no exception. Now I've heard a couple people who are fans of Myracle pooh-poohing her latest book Thirteen. They say it isn't as strong as the other books or the plot wraps up too neatly. Stuff along those lines. Well I myself haven't read any other books by Ms. Myracle except for this title and what I read I really liked. I'm sure that every series like this one has its supporters, but when it comes to an incredible voice and a likable heroine, colour me a new Myracle fan. I can't wait to start recommending this book left and right to my patrons.
She survived the age of eleven. She breezed (sorta) through the age of twelve. Now Winnie Perry is a great big beautiful thirteen and boy is she feeling it. She has a boyfriend (sorta sorta) by the name of Lars who seems okay and all but is much better at kissing than communicating. She has her two best friends Cinnamon and Dinah by her side, helping her through her roles. And then there are her siblings, moody for their own reasons, and a mom who has a couple secrets of her own. The trek into teenagerhood is fraught with many perils, but through it all Winnie comes this much closer to knowing who she is and what she can accomplish.
Ms. Myracle is one of the few authors I know of to acknowledge and thank her cover artist (in this case the fabulously named "Beegee Tolpa"). For this reason alone I believe that she must have more in common with her charming heroine than one might initially think. It doesn't hurt matters any that Myracle gets the sheer level of tween/teen selfishness down pat. The constant fears that you aren't looking the way that you should be looking, for example. She has an ear for relaying when people trying to hard, like Winnie laughing uproariously at her friends' jokes when Lars is near, so as to look wild and free and attractive. I loved too how Myracle accurately got down the fogginess teens feel about what constitutes "old" (example: "I thought it was important to make this promise to myself now, before I turned thirty and got saggy and fat."). She gets the age.
I suppose I could see how Winnie's bon mots might tap dance on a person's nerves, but somehow they never got to me. I liked her insights most times. Like when a popular girl acts like she's a loser, which was weird but, "better than being snotty". I loved her cheery sarcasm regarding boring children's primers. "Oh, the joy of short A's. Might there be a bat in the cat's future? A bat wearing a hat? Who knew! That's what made it so exciting!" Any author that can make a thirteen-year-old character sound like someone who would call herself a stud ("that's the kind of stud I am") wins my heart. She also has this unexpectedly dirty mouth that just pops out of nowhere. I can think of at least one section where the words "turd", "penis", and "vagina" all pop out at you, and somehow it's funny rather than overly scatological.
Some things didn't sit with me perfectly, though. Maybe I just had a really self-involved life, but when I was thirteen nobody had parties where they invited the whole class. I went to public school, though, and Winnie is going to a private one where issues of class and race (set against an Atlanta setting, no less) never even come up. Still, I can't imagine the kind of privilege a person would have to be raised in to hear about 14-year-olds throwing house parties with hot tubs and liquor cabinets. It happens probably, but at least in my own case it made Winnie's story seem so much older than its scant thirteen years. Then again, if Myracle continues at the rate she's been going, Winnie's gonna be nineteen soon and possibly outgrowing her young fans. On the other other hand, I have this weird desire for that to happen. Remember in the old days when books like Betsy-Tacy and Anne of Green Gables would just keep going and going until their characters grew up, got married, and had kids? How cool would it be if Lauren Myracle continued that trend? I mean, what if? I know that publishers would shy away from that kind of retro writing, but I think that there's a real allure in following a character through life. Winnie certainly has plenty of material to ... Read More
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This continues what was begun in 11 and 12. Another great addition to the series. I hope that 14 will appear subsequent year! Lauren Myracle knows these girls.
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