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List Price: $9.99
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Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780316110402
ISBN: 031611040X
Label: Little, Brown Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2005-02-02
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Meet Madison, Holly, and Lina, the stars of this smart, sexy new series. When The Dating Game web site they create for a sophomore class project is a smash hit, they become the matchmaking masters of their schooland, they hope, their own lives.
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Summary: The Dating Game
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Do you think dating is a game? Do you think blind dates are to be taken seriously? Are boys too obsessed with perverted actions? These questions lingered in the minds of teenage girls at Rosewood School for Alternative Gifted Education.
For a health project Madison, Holly, and Lina decide to make a love survey. They had students fill the survey out as honest as possible to see who was more sex obsessed girls or guys. Will this clear up the confusion between love and lust or make it more complicated then ever?
The Dating Game by Natalie Standiford, Was written in corky up-beat fashion, I would recommend it to mostly girls because first off the main characters are girls and talk about girly topics a lot too.I hope that after reading my review you will pick up this book for a good read.
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Summary: a good start
Comment: When three best friends, Mads, Lina, and Holly, are given a project in their sex-ed class, they decide to start a school-sponsored web-site called The Dating Game, where teens can fill out profiles for themselves, vote on polls, fill out questionnaires, and much more. Besides their boost in popularity, the web-site helps the girls get to know their crushes. The Dating Game is a good start to the series.
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Summary: good book
Comment: The Dating Game-The book the dating game by Natalie Standford was a very interesting book. The main points never rush into love. I think that a girl would want to read this and not a guy. The reason why is that it talks about things about girls and not as much as to guys. But that is my own opinion. The characters are well explained. They have minds of there own. The book is based on the teens and not the adults and teachers but only one guy teacher Dan. Every girl has a crush on him.
The three main characters are Holly, Mads, and Lina. They are best friends. This book kind of relates to me but not as much. It really didn't interest me, it wasn't a pull me in kind of book. But that is what I think. It might be different for other girls. So I wouldn't read it again. Other girls who love reading "Love" books would want to read this
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Summary: Thank goodness these girls are fictional
Comment: The Dating Game by Natalie Standiford rides the wave of alternative writing styles in young adult literature. Each chapter in this book opens with a whimsical horoscope followed by a mix of dialog, emails, instant message text, and quizzes that will appeal to teenage girls.
The story is set in a California high school for gifted students. Sophomores Madison, Holly and Lina need a project for their Interpersonal Human Development (IHD) class. They conceive the idea of creating and managing an on-line quiz for their fellow students hoping to prove their theory that boys are more obsessed with sexual thoughts than girls. The quiz is also designed as a matchmaking service to help the three girls meet their dream dates.
No complex issues are addressed in this story. Each girl works through a problem with little resolution in the end. Lina has a crush on the IHD teacher that blinds her to a senior boy who is pursuing her. Madison feels she is the last 15 year old virgin in California and sets out to change her image. Holly is the subject of rumors that depict her as a sex crazed wild woman and finds it almost impossible to get her classmates to believe her side of the story.
The characters are two dimensional but the high school setting and the weekend parties are believable. Although the writing style has high appeal for young adult readers I don't recommend this book because of the causal attitude toward teenage drinking and sexual behavior.
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Summary: Roxy Chick
Comment: This book kept me reading throughout the entire novel but there were some things that bothered me:
1. Are teenagers really this sex crazed?
2. Would a High school teacher really allow a student to make a project about sex?!
3. I went to high school once and usually at least a couple of parents cared about the safety of their children (sex, drugs etc.)
This book maybe even promote sex and therefore a book written like this should maybe take place out of high school.
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