Among Friends [electronic resource] :

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In this fast-paced novel about the bonds of friendship, Jenny, Emily, and Hillary, known as the Awesome Threesome, thought they’d be a threesome forever. But with Jennie’s relentless ambition, Emily’s jealousy, and Hillary’s building resentment, it seems the Awesome Threesome is destined to be a thing of the past. Assigned to write in diaries for English class, the three girls, along with three other classmates, find themselves admitting things so terrible that even they are shocked. All are left wondering: What price does a person have to pay for being successful? The pursuit of the truth is compellingly chronicled and the resolution satisfies.

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Random House Children's Books,

Datum:

2012

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CLOUDLIBRARY EPUB

Sprache:

Englisch

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In this fast-paced novel about the bonds of friendship, Jenny, Emily, and Hillary, known as the Awesome Threesome, thought they'd be a threesome forever. But with Jennie's relentless ambition, Emily's jealousy, and Hillary's building resentment, it seems the Awesome Threesome is destined to be a thing of the past.

Assigned to write in diaries for English class, the three girls, along with three other classmates, find themselves admitting things so terrible that even they are shocked. All are left wondering: What price does a person have to pay for being successful? The pursuit of the truth is compellingly chronicled and the resolution satisfies.

Rezensionen (2)

School Library Journal-Rezension

Gr 8-12 Through journal entries, six high-school juniors reveal their jealou sies, frustrations, fears, and hopes. The plot focuses on upper-crust super- achiever Jennie Quint and a withdrawn newcomer, Paul R. Smith. Driven by parental and self-imposed pressure to succeed, Jennie is lonely, alienated from her friends. Meanwhile, Paul faces a private trauma with his unstable mother and estranged sister. When Jen nie confronts failure on a statewide honors math test, she runs away. In contrast, Paul accepts help from class mate Emily and Jared's lawyer father. Cooney again exhibits her knack for portraying the perils of success in an adolescent world. Characters speak with candor, occasional meanness, wit, and conviction. Although Cooney's Don't Blame the Music (Putnam, 1986) is a more thematically subtle and dra matic account of alienation and friend ship, Among Friends will attract secon dary readers with its fast pace, friendships and rivalries, upbeat end ing, and believable cast of characters. Gerry Larson, Chewning Junior High School, Durham, N.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist-Rezension

Each member of an English class is required to keep a diary, and this story emerges through the alternating journal entries of a half-dozen high school juniors. Star achiever Jennie tells of the drive to succeed, the pressures from her parents and herself, and the loneliness at the top. Her former close friends, Emily and Hillary, tell of their jealousy. Then there's sexy newcomer Paul, mysterious to everyone else, who slowly reveals the secret of his family trauma and his mother's breakdown. Faced with failure, Jennie runs away; Paul learns to reach out for help. The diary format is really just a tired device for including alternating first-person narratives, and all the voices blend into one another. Much is overwritten and overexplained, including some heavy lessons (``success is being proud of yourself''). But the style is breezy, and though the narrative has little of the power of Cooney's Don't Blame the Music (Booklist 82:1628 Ag 86), readers will respond to the author's candid view of friendship with its intense bonding, rivalry, and sudden, surprising meanness. Gr. 7-10. HR. Self-perception Fiction / Friendship Fiction / Interpersonal relations Fiction / High schools Fiction / Schools Fiction [OCLC] 87-18853