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: Textbook
ASIN: 9780786838189
Publish date: 25-03-2008
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Humor,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
School Stories,
Boarding School,
Fiction
Well...I have to say I enjoyed this, but it didn't captivate me the way the Ruby Oliver books did. I did enjoy the way the story was told as it was unusual and effective, and while I very much enjoyed the character of Frankie, I wasn't too keen on the constant comparison of her to "typical girls". W...
I'm not rating this book because I didn't get far enough into it. I had to stop when it hit one of my rage buttons.The book started out cute enough...for the first two pages. I was honestly interested in finding out what the Canned Beet Rebellion was. I wanted to know. And then we got into the m...
Intelligent, witty, funny. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is a sharp, thought-provoking book with depth and interesting things to say about feminism under the smooth prose.While I thoroughly enjoyed Lockhart's tight, clever writing and the ingenuity of Frankie's hi-jinks, I just fa...
Goodreads Summary: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 supremel...
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