Kale, My Ex, and Other Things to Toss in a Blender

Kale, My Ex, and Other Things to Toss in a Blender
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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2017

Lexile Score

520

Reading Level

1-3

نویسنده

Lisa Greenwald

شابک

9780399556401
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Kirkus

March 15, 2017
It's summer before senior year, and Mia, who needs a boyfriend to -feel like a person,- finds herself on the receiving end of a publicly humiliating breakup.Her best friend, Justine, hatches a revenge plan: catfish ex-boyfriend Seth via social media and make him fall in love with fictional -Katie,- thus ensuring his total destruction. -Slightly chubby- Mia, who's already decided on revenge-through-weight loss, acquiesces, and the two white girls go ahead with the plan. As their scheme progresses, they express doubt about their actions, but that doesn't stop them from seeing the plan to fruition. As Mia's body shrinks, thanks to her overconsumption of creatively named smoothies, so does her lingering love for Seth; other factors play a role in her changing attitude, but weight loss seems to be the key ingredient. (To Justine's credit, she'd rather enjoy the cookies than worry about an extra 10 pounds.) What had the potential to be a delightful summer-vacation story is marred by the dysfunctional weight-loss narrative, the girls' obsession with appearance, and only a modicum of diversity. (Justine and Seth are both Jewish.) Decent enough for readers looking for something fast and fun to pack in a beach bag, but young feminists will likely throw it at the wall. (Fiction. 13-17)

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School Library Journal

March 1, 2017

Gr 6 Up-Mia and Justine begin their summer trying on cute bathing suits to wear to a pool party. It's going to be a great summer for Mia, who has an awesome boyfriend, Seth, even if she does have to work serving sno-cones out of a truck. But when Seth breaks up with her to hook up with another girl, she can focus only on her heartbreak. In order to support Mia, Justine creates a fictitious girl complete with Facebook page and social media profiles to entrap and humiliate Seth. Meanwhile, summer continues: Justine meets a young man working for the summer at the bank. Mia starts to form a "more than friends" relationship with Dennis, Justine's cousin. The two teens spend the summer making smoothies instead of sno-cones and cyberstalking Seth. Mia and Justine do experience guilt for coming up with the fake profile but still carry on with the ruse. Mia stubbornly does not allow herself to get over Seth even while spending time with Dennis. Told from alternating perspectives, the narrative portrays the protagonists as stereotypical self-involved teenagers without nuance or character development. There are no real consequences for the cyberstalking. VERDICT Not recommended, even for libraries looking for beach reads and lighthearted middle school fare.-Patricia Feriano, Montgomery County Public Schools, MD

Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.



DOGO Books
maddow1718 - Do you like books that switch perspectives? If so this is the one for you! What if your best friends boyfriend breaks up with her at a pool party and cheats on her? You make a fake account on Facebook and get back at him! In the book Kale, my ex, and Other Things to Toss in the Blender by Lisa Greenwald, Mia and her boyfriend did everything together and then at the pool party he broke up with her. Mia was very heartbroken and couldn’t stop talking to Seth which just made things worse for her but Justine had a plan to fix everything. Justine and Mia made a fake Facebook and started to talk to Seth through messaging. To get things off Mia’s mind about Seth they started working at Justine’s uncle’s snow cone shop. But instead of selling snow cones they started selling smoothie which brought in a lot of money. But the thing is, Justine’s uncle doesn’t know about it. They find new love and a new life. This book I rate a billion stars because it's a book that you’ll start reading and never want it to end. This book I would say should be 6th graders because of some parts in the book but, I really recommend this book!

Booklist

April 1, 2017
Grades 7-10 Mia was going to have a summer to remember: for the first time, she's got a boyfriend. But then Seth brutally dumps her, and Mia's best friend, Justine, overhears Seth and his friends trash-talking Mia for her weight. Justine isn't about to let Mia waste her summer moping over a jerk, so she devises a plan. The girls create Katie, a fake online persona; the plan is to make Seth fall in love with Katie and then break his heart. They'll be able to keep tabs on him easily: they've got a summer job driving a snow cone truck. Mia, though, isn't sold on revenge, and she focuses her energy on using the truck's blender to make healthy smoothies that are soon selling faster than the snow cones. Told in Mia's and Justine's alternating narrations, this is a frothy summer story of heartbreak and new love. It's sometimes overly dramatic, and Mia's body image story line could have been more developed, but the celebration of strong female friendship is admirable.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)




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