The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
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,...
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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. 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. Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:Possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786838196 (0786838191)
ASIN: 0786838191
Publish date: 2009-08-25
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Frankie’s new boyfriend is a member of the all-male secret society that is responsible for pulling the biggest pranks in school history. Frankie desperately wants to know what happens during the society’s secret meetings, but every time she asks, her boyfriend lies to her. What he doesn’t know is th...
The book started off slow and nothing really happened throughout, but I loved it anyway. I love Lockhart's novels. Frankie is a strong and clever young woman who feels as though she is as deserving, maybe more so, to be a part of the all-male secret society at the boarding school she attends. She ...
The book started off slow and nothing really happened throughout, but I loved it anyway. I love Lockhart's novels.Frankie is a strong and clever young woman who feels as though she is as deserving, maybe more so, to be a part of the all-male secret society at the boarding school she attends. She is ...
Frankie Landau-Banks is quite literally the book equivalent of Veronica Mars. And she's awesome. And also a bit scary.This is the book that I think every girl should read, even though many may not have the patience for it. The writing is a bit report-like and clinical, though you do get a thorough a...
***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.*** The prose and language of this book are delightfully brainy. Frankie's voice is snarky and bright, but in a way that is believable, given her circumstances (a reasonably wealthy girl in an elite boarding school on the level of Exeter and A...
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