Present Out Of Books Gamer Girl
| Title | : | Gamer Girl |
| Author | : | Mari Mancusi |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 248 pages |
| Published | : | November 13th 2008 by Dutton Children's Books |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Romance. Contemporary. Realistic Fiction. Fiction |
Mari Mancusi
Hardcover | Pages: 248 pages Rating: 3.77 | 4304 Users | 688 Reviews
Ilustration As Books Gamer Girl
After Maddy's parents divorce, she's stuck starting over at a new high school. Friendless and nicknamed Freak Girl, Manga-loving artist Maddy finds refuge in the interactive online game Fields of Fantasy. In that virtual world, she reinvents herself as Allora, a gorgeous elfin alter ego, and meets a true friend in Sir Leo. Maddy can't hide behind Allora forever, especially as a real-life crush begins edging in on her budding virtual romance. But would anyone pick the real Maddy, gamer girl and Manga freak, over the fantasy? This fresh, geeky/cool novel includes online chats and exciting gaming, and features Maddy's Mangastyle artwork.Declare Books Toward Gamer Girl
| Original Title: | Gamer Girl |
| ISBN: | 0525479953 (ISBN13: 9780525479956) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.marimancusi.com/gamergirl.html |
Rating Out Of Books Gamer Girl
Ratings: 3.77 From 4304 Users | 688 ReviewsCritique Out Of Books Gamer Girl
This book had the potential to be so much more, a real paen to the "pwn you" spirit of geek girls and gamer-girls everywhere (of which I am one), but the author chose instead to rehash every predictable high-school trope prevalent in much of today's YA fiction. Not to mention create the thoroughly unlikable character of Maddy Starr, who was quite obviously Mari Mancusi--another grown woman reliving her high school days--what is the deal with that anyway? First Meyer and now Mancusi and goddessReviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.comMaddy Starr's world has come to an end. Her parents just divorced, and now she's living with her mother and her 8-year-old sister in the unicorn-infested house of her grandmother. Yikes! Could it possibly get any worse?Yep, it can get worse.On her first day at her new high school, Maddy is humiliated. As she's about to leave for school, her grandmother declares she will not allow her granddaughter to go to school looking like "a
This book is somewhat cliche, but I actually really enjoyed it! This is more like book candy for me than it being super inspirational or really deep, it's just a casual story to enjoy that has a little bit of romance! If you feel like just tuning out the world for a little while, then you can try this book!! It's a pretty quick and easy read.
I read this AGES ago in high school and it was so, so important to me. I need to reread and properly review.
I should have known by the title that this book was terrible. No self respecting gamer would label themselves a gamer "girl". Not only is it slightly offensive to categorize yourself as something separate and thus pushing the cultural idea that male is "default", but anyone who does label themselves that is clearly not a gamer. If you play games and are you are a girl, you are simply a gamer. Stop trying to segregate us! I'm all for female empowerment but we can do that without tagging already
Maddys life couldnt get much worse. Her parents split and now shes stuck in a small town and at a new school. Most of the time, she retreats into her manga art, but when she gets into the Fields of Fantasy online computer game, she knows shes found the one place she can be herself. In the game world, Maddy can be the beautiful and magical Allora and have a virtually perfect life. And she even finds a little romance. But can Maddy escape her real-life problems altogether, or will she have to find
This is a book that I would read once, but never again.I'm not going to lie; I did not enjoy this book as much as I wanted myself to. The main character was a girl that I could easily aspire to become; her life could possibly be an exact duplicate of mine, however, the difference was that her life was too easy.This book did not do what I wished it would to me emotionally. In most books I enjoyed, there were times when I could emotionally connect with the main character, and we would seem to form
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