Megan McCafferty has accomplished quite a feat!

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	• Second Helpings: A Novel Megan Mccafferty Three Rivers Press, 2003 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 195 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Brilliantly Fantastic

OMG!!!!! I bought the book on Wednesday and now its Friday, and I finished it ten minutes ago. I LOVED IT! I couldn't put it down, it was so good. If you liked 'Sloppy Firsts,' your gonna adore this sequel. Oh, on another note, I read somewhere that the auhor is going to write another sequel to this book. You know Jessica Darling in Collage. But, she won't write it for a few years. We need to get a petition signed to get her to write it like NOW.

Megan McCafferty has accomplished quite a feat!

Megan McCafferty has accomplished quite a feat with this novel and her first book, Sloppy Firsts. She's written a book about teenagers that landed in the adult fiction section - where it rightfully belongs. As a former bookseller, I can say that this placement has a big role in the popularity of these titles. It ensured that teenage girls seeking out Ms. McCafferty's writing felt like grown-ups, and made those of us who were grown-ups feel we'd discovered a hidden treasure. Ms. McCafferty has created a character who speaks to the teenage girl in all of us. Who doesn't recall having friends and feeling friendless? Quitting things you were good at because they didn't make you feel good anymore? Wondering if it was possible to both make good grades AND get the boy? Lots of teen-girl books (like Sweet Valley or Mary-Kate & Ashley) need twins to present this essential dichotomy of teen-girl life. They seem to say, who could REALLY be this complex? But Jessica Darling is. She's the antisocial girl who finds true friends. She's the witty Ivy League-bound class brainiac who knows she isn't being challenged enough, the smart girl who has sex and isn't punished for it. Here's hoping that Megan McCafferty is sitting on a few more Jessica Darling stories. In the meantime, head to your adult fiction section and take a trip back in time. You'll wish you'd been Jessica then, but be just as happy to make her acquaintance now.

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TERRIFIC!!!!

Great book! better than the first one (sloppy firsts) it actually made me laugh out loud. that doesn't happen too often. you'll want to read it to know what happens to jessica. you'll wish there really was a macus flootie. ya gotta read it , or you'll miss out. i hope there is a sequel.

words cannot describe how good this boook is

Words cannot describe how good this book is, and it becomes quite enjoyable and addciting read. Every one of my good girl friends who has borrowed my book enjoys reading it, and then get their BOYFRIENDS to read it as well. I highly reccomend this sequel to the book, and as you read it you realize how you are a Jessica Darling and that no matter what, we all have a Marcus Flutie in our life.

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Darling!

Enter Jessica Darling's senior year and watch her as she starts her summer by attending a camp. She takes the creative writing portion in the camp and is forced to keep a journal. Jessica Darling turns in the wrong journal to her teacher by accident and feels embarrassed after he reads the journal. Jessica has had her eye on her creative writing teacher and her entries were full of love notes and admiration towards him. The teacher confesses to Jessica that he is a homosexual and Jessica is mortified. First, she confesses her love to the gay Paul, now to him. Her senior year starts and Jessica still is one of the top in her class. She's permently stopped cross country and spends her free time on the couch watching Real World or writing to her best friend who's hundreds of miles away. Jessica dwells on her "virgin" status and is a tad bit weary that she'll stay a virgin throughout high school. The book explains of the many hookups at Jessica's school. Most disgust Jessica, until she finds one of her own. Her old crush from elementary school, who was known as a dork totally transfered into a hot stud who took many by surprise. Jessica thought Len was a stranger, but in fact he was the dorky brainac that was her competition for valevictorian. They hook up, but the charisma between the two is slim. Len proclaims he wants to save his virginity until marriage. Len soon breaks up with the wild Jessica. Jessica takes ectasy, which Len tells his mother, and Len's mother tells him that Jessica is a bad influence. He breaks up with her on Valentines day which leaves Jessica at her biggest low. She finds herself moping around being extremely lethargic. Jessica's dream is to go to Columbia, but after the 9-11 incidents, she thinks her parents will hate the idea. She sneaks an application and awaits for the acceptance letter. Jessica gets accepted to every college she applied, but what one will she end up going to? She also experiances death, more boy problems, and normal teenage quirks. I suggest anyone to read this humorous coming to age tale of a fictional brilliant girl who skips prom to make out with her true love, sneaks out on runs at night to beat her insomnia, and has to live with her pregnant stingy sister Bethany. A must read, and favorite, but be sure to pick up Sloppy Firsts before this.

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