Jessica Darling's It List: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Popularity, Prettiness & Perfection

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There are some scenes that had me sitting there laughing out loud and my husband staring at me like I was off my rocker. The middle school years especially are a time of transition where friendships come and go, and many BFFs are actually trying to climb on top of one another up the social ladder. The subsequent three novels were first published in hardcover by Crown, [9] [10] [11] with later paperback editions by Three Rivers Press. Jessica Darling (Chloe East) is anxiously awaiting the first day of junior high school in JESSICA DARLING'S IT LIST.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Marcus in this, but I feel like he was just there because what's a Jessica Darling book without Marcus Flutie? With Jessica’s social awkwardness in play, things go awry on all four counts, but not in a particularly harmful way. Jessica Darling, star of Megan McCafferty's bestselling Jessica Darling series for adults, is back in a hilarious new series perfect for tween (10 to 14) girls. If you love the original Jessica Darling series, reading these books will give you so much joy and insight into the characters and how they came to be – it’s definitely a fun, light, and quick read for fans. After all Jess makes cheer team but not as it seems, makes friends and loses them in some ways and learns of growing apart as well as having enough best friend boyfriend drama to do without boy drama of her own!McCafferty noted that "Books for teens have taken a huge beating in the media" in the aftermath of the incident. and can we not forget that this shit doesn't happen in middle school like the hell, we didn't have no such thing as quads and the cheer team is just dumb as hell. Jessica Darling, star of Megan McCafferty’s bestselling Jessica Darling series for adults, is back in a hilarious new series perfect for tween (10 to 14) girls.

I'm looking forward to the next book - I wonder how many are in this series, because I enjoyed this start! McCafferty's depiction of middle school cliques, awkwardness and romance shines with her trademark humor. Jessica's much older sister Bethany, in a rare instance of sisterly feeling, has decided to help Jessica avoid the curse of dorkdom by passing down the patented method for achieving popularity. There is an encounter with a male goose that had me belly laughing so hard I had to set down the book. However, I found the items on the new It-List introduced in this book not as exciting or as interesting as the first book.Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. Being a huge fan of the Jessica Darling series (although the last half of the series couldn't hold a candle to the first two books), I was super excite to read this prequel. Megan McCafferty is the New York Times bestselling author of the Jessica Darling series, Bumped, and Thumped. Fans of the original Jessica Darling series will love this glimpse into pre-teen Jessica's life and mind! which sometimes leads her to disastrous consequences, like being stuck in a seagull costume as the school mascot, but sometimes, also, gives her signals to who and what she might want to be.