All-American Girl (All-American Girl #1)

 
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Reader reviewed by Therdry

This book has all the makings of a tale of growth and experience. I love the way Sam has real people struggles. She is well rounded individule, and her spontanity is a great character flaw. I think it is to offset the prefection around her, which is a wonderful juxaposition.

Great book, I recomend the sequil, but not so much.
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Amazing!!
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Reader reviewed by Jennie

All American Girl-
The book was about a normal unpopular girl, Sam. She is a wonderful artist, who can draw almost anything. When her parents find out she has been drawing, instead of focusing on her foreign language, they force her to join local art lessons. While waiting for her ride to go home she sees the presidents car stop and go in to the local cookie store, a man standing beside her pulls out a gun&&..
This book was a very good book! I loved it&and I cant wait to read the sequel!!!
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hilarius and adictting
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Reader reviewed by Catherine

Ok, first off, let me say Meg Cabbot has once again made a thrilling novel. Sam, rebellios teen who is in love with her sisters boy friend, is starting to understand more and more around her. of course this is all on acident (other wise how could it be so hilarius?)She starts art lessons (a punishment for those drawings.. well really the money behind it) anyway, she begins to like the classes with the cute guy named David in her class. until one day she skippes out and guess who she saves? the president. and guess who America loves? Sam. now she was never popular having only one good friend, who was equally tormented in high school, now Sam is faced with posar people who all want to be her friend. and the even BIGGER problem? she is falling in love.. now i wont say who(that would spoil the book) but it gets pretty obvios... until she finally thinks her life is over, and then she some how makes it all better (once again i shan't say how) a very good book, one of my favorites.. anything by Meg Cabbot is sure to be extreamly HILARIUS!!!
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A piece of Art (like Sam's work)
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Reader reviewed by Nurin

Sam's in big trouble. She saved the president from being shot at and now she some national hero. All she ever wanted was her sisters boyfriend to love her back. But thats not the case. David, the first son, is causing her to have "frisson" and then Sam has to mess the whole thing up because of jack, (sister's BF.) Then Sam comes to her senses, she loves DAVID but he seems to think she's some player....
Funny, unbelievable, the perfect read for ANYBODY!
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A Truly Awesome Book!
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Reader reviewed by Lianne



Samantha Madison is fifteen years old and lives in Washington D.C. with her family. After getting caught selling celebrity portraits at her school, her parents force her to begin to take art classes twice a week. At the first class Sam is humiliated and vows to never return back to the class. Instead she decides to begin to ditch class and go to a nearby music store, . Everything goes fine with her plan until she stops a assassination attempt on the president. Now she is considered a national hero and is even invited to dinner at the White House with the president and his family! Sam is also named teen ambassador of the UN. But, Sam soon has bigger problems that spending her Wednesday afternoons at the White House with the press Secretary doing nothing, she is in love with her older sister's boyfriend Jack and might also have feelings for the president's son David. Before she knows it Sam has herself into a bit of a mess and has to find a way to fix it! But, is it to late?

This book is wonderfully written and is just as hilarious as Meg Cabot's other books!

"Reprinted with author's permisson"
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I thought this was about a cheerleader.
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Reader reviewed by Babydex17

When I first saw the title I thought this was about a cheerleader, 'cause when you hear 'All-American' your first thought is cheerleader, football player, smalltowns like Smallville and Homecoming parades. So imagine my surprise when I find out it's about an artistic Goth who saves the presidents life. Come on now, I have never heard the phrase All-American Goth, so that was just new to me. And that whole Preppy cheerleader dating a Goth guy thing was just . . . inetersting. All in all, that was a great book.
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the most important facts on this book, which is great by the way
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Reader reviewed by Tamanna

*She is the middle child in the family
*She has an older sister who is the most popular girl in school, and a little sister who is a genius
*Her parents and other people do not like her the most because she wears all black showing that she mourns todays society
*Her old sis, Lucy, and young Rebecca, herself, Samantha (Sam)
*One day, Lucy shows her parents a drawing that she made, and she is very good, so parents make her take art classes with a teacher who only wants her to draw what she sees and not what she wants to draw in her heart
*She hates the teacher
*She loves Ska music
*She lives Washington D.C.
*She has a crush on Lucys boyfriend, Jack, whom she thinks would be better with her because they both are artists and she wont abandon him.
*One day she skips class, hangs out at a music store, and listens to samples of her favorite songs.
*She sits at the curb and waits for Theresa to pick her up, and then the president goes into Capitol Cookies, which she thinks is strange, since he should probably order them and get them delivered. It is raining too.
*Then this person next to her pulls out a big gun from under his rain poncho and aims for the president. Sam, though never brave or poking in other peoples stuff, jumps him, and accidentally breaks her wrist, and saves the president from a direct hit to the head.
*Now she is very popular. In the hospital, all of the presidents guards guard her since the man couldve been part of a terrorist group, which might now want revenge.
*She is shocked to find millions of reporters and other people outside of the hospital. She is getting many gifts. She had never had this much attention.
* She has now turned from the most unpopular person ever to the most popular person ever
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Sometimes you look, but you don't actually see
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Reader reviewed by two sided freek

Sam saves the president and the president's son just might be in love with her. On top of that, her art class is driving her wild and she's in love with her sister's boyfriend. What's a girl to do?

Despite the fluffy summary I just gave and the weird summary in the book, I found this novel exceptionally deep. Sam's often naive perspective on the world changes dramatically throughout the book. Only when she's shown the obvious does she see. As my title states, maybe when you read the book, you see and read the words but don't actually read between the lines.
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All-American, All-Fabulous
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Reader reviewed by Jocelyn

This is my favorite Meg Cabot book, and one of my favorite books ever. All-American girl's main character, Sam, is a Gwen Stefani-loving, all-black-wearing, celebrity-drawing, totally not what you think of from the title (All-American brings to mind a cheerleader living in suburbia, you know?) awesome girl who saves the life of the President, and ends up falling in love with his son.

This book is amazing. It has fabulous, believable characters--cheerleading, makeup-loving older sister Lucy, freaky-genius, sci-fi fan little sister Rebecca, super-tough housekeeper Theresa, and so many more. Everything in this book is well-thought-out and well written, and the result is something that everyone should read!
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A realistic teen hero
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Reader reviewed by LJK

There is a streak of fantasy that runs through Meg Cabot's teen fiction in which ordinary girls wake up to discover that they're a princess, or, in this case, a national hero. And while this isn't entirely realistic (Sam sees a gunman that the secret service doesn't notice?), but who cares! All girls once had a fantasy like this, and what makes Cabot's story so great is that she reveals some of the drawbacks of sudden fame (a horrible school id photo on the national news) without spoiling the fun of the story. Girls of all ages will enjoy this book.
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