All's fair in love, war, and high school

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Title:

All's fair in love, war, and high school

Alternate title:

All is fair in love, war, and high school

Author:

Rallison, Janette, 1966- author.

Summary:

When head cheerleader Samantha Taylor does poorly on the SAT exam, she determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president, but her razor wit and acid tongue make her better suited to dishing out insults than winning votes.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Physical Description:

183 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject Term:

High schools -- Fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

Self-perception -- Fiction.

Elections -- Fiction.

High school students -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Walker : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,

Publication Date:

2005

2003

ISBN:

9780802777256

9780439636223

Publication Information:

New York : Walker : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005, c2003.

Call Number:

YA RALLISO

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Summary

When your chance for getting into college and your date for the prom are all on the line...

Sixteen-year-old Samantha Taylor is used to having things go her way. She's head cheerleader and has all the right friends and a steady stream of boyfriends. But when she tanks the SATs, her automatic assumptions about going to college don't appear to be so automatic anymore. She determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president. Unfortunately, with her razor wit and acid tongue she's bettersuited to dishing out insults than winning votes.

When she brashly bets her classmate Logan that she can go two weeks without uttering a single insult, Samantha immediately realizes that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. And when her current boyfriend dumps her, less than three weeks before the prom, it couldn't be a worse time to be forced to keep her opinions to herself. Finding a new boyfriend will be a challenge now that Logan shadows her every move, hoping to catch her slipping back into her old ways. Samantha is determined to win the election and find a dream date for the prom, no matter what it takes. After all . . . all's fair in love and war (and high school!).

Author Notes

Janette Rallison is the author of Playing the Field; All's Fair in Love, War, and High School ; and Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws . She lives with her husband and their five kids, in Chandler, Arizona, where she continues to dream up book titles that use a whole lot of commas.

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 9 Up-Samantha has bombed her SATs, and her prospects for college are looking dim. What can she do to redeem herself in the eyes of college admissions? Head cheerleader isn't exactly awe inspiring, so she decides that politics is her salvation, and she begins her campaign for student body president with the help and support of her fellow cheerleaders. Branching out of her clique to enlist others to help leads to a bet with Logan, her eighth-grade boyfriend, that she cannot go two weeks without insulting someone. In the process, Samantha makes new friends, loses old ones, dates a hunk from her past, and learns something about character. Readers who find comfort in a familiar plot will be drawn to this book because the standard "hate him, love him" device finds form in the romances here. The characters are all familiar as well, so there are no surprises. Teens who are looking for a predictable, comfortable love story will be most taken with this novel.-Lynn Evarts, Sauk Prairie High School, Prairie du Sac, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

Rallison's (Playing the Field) breezy comedy is narrated by Samantha, a popular, self-absorbed head cheerleader who, after receiving abysmal SAT scores, decides that her resum? needs some beefing up if she is going to get into a decent college. When she asks Logan, a fellow junior and her one-time boyfriend, for his help running for student body president, he scoffs-"To campaign, you have to talk to people outside your clique," he tell her. "You can't walk into a room of six people without insulting five of them." Samantha accepts his challenge to avoid insulting anyone for a full week (which is then extended to two weeks), a bet that paves the way for a host of humorous exchanges and near slip-ups. While struggling to hold her tongue and coping with campaign trauma (someone distributes flyers divulging her SAT scores), Samantha must also land a last-minute date for the prom after her current beau dumps her. Though readers will have few doubts about where Samantha and Logan's coy cat-and-mouse game will lead, they will follow along contentedly enough, as appealing characters and snappy dialogue give this light fare a satisfying bite. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved