Girls for Breakfast
by David Yoo
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Author: David YooEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-12
ISBN: 0440238838
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Book Reviews of Girls for Breakfast
Book Review: Funny and honest
Summary: 4 Stars
I just finished Yoo's "Girls for Breakfast". I really don't like spoilers, so I won't include any here. The narrator of the novel,Nick, is soooo funny, that I couldn't put it down and finished it in a couple of sittings. Nick wants it all with typical teen bravado, but is also incredibly insecure. I read a fair bit of YA lit. (I'm a teacher), and I was really grateful that Yoo doesn't have some big moment of clarity where the character figures out all his problems and does the right thing at just the right time(this ruins many similar books). Instead, his narrator is just a big ball of raging hormones and confusion and contradictions. I'd say the only downside of this novel is all the pop culture allusions. They had me dying from laughter from the first couple of pages ("Kodiak Long Cut bear"), but they might be confusing to a 16 year old who didn't grow up in the 80's. Overall, hilarious and painfully honest. I would definitely recommend this to smart teens.
Summary of Girls for Breakfast
Nick Park loves girls.Drumstick legs, cherry-colored lips, dumpling cheeks . . . everything about them he wants to eat up. But he?s dateless and has been since he discovered girls in the third grade, and he?s convinced himself that this is solely based on the fact that he?s the only Korean American teenager in Renfield?the fifth richest (and WASPiest) town in Connecticut. In Nick?s mind, he sticks out like a banana in a wheat field.
And now it?s time for him to figure it out once and for all. Is it all in his head or are his suspicions that his heritage is keeping him from a triumphant boob fest true?
An excerpt from Girls for Breakfast:
What confused me about involuntarily visualizing Miss Hamilton with no clothes on was that she wasn?t even pretty. Her nose was pointy and her frizzy hair always looked sweaty, but I couldn?t stop picturing her naked. I also couldn?t stop picturing Martha the bus driver naked every time I stepped on the bus. I was a perverted Superman. As the bell rang I silently vowed to stop staring at the Playboys at night in order to get the rest crucial to curing me. I glared at Miss Hamilton?s breasts and shook a fist at her bare butt as she faced the chalkboard. I knew in my heart I?d beat this disease.
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