Holly's First Love [Paperback]

I read This Holly book and fell in love with the series. It is a little bit confusing that there are two different titles but it is just because one was published later so they had to have a new cover. I loved that this book talked about the real things that go on in a young girls life. I remember fighting with my best friend over a guy to. Every 12-14 year old girl will love and relate to these books.

I got this book from the library, and I really liked it, but it looked a lot different than on the computer, and anyway, it's called Best Friend, Worst Enemy, not Holly's First Love. The one at the library is, anyway. It's the same book they talk about on here, not a different book in the series. Other series I've read, like The Baby-Sitters Club, have had two different versions of each book, but all they changed on those was the covers, and not the title. They shouldn't sell the same book with two different titles, you just end up with two of the same book.

Holly Meredith, 12 going on 13, and her "best friend", Andrea (Andie) Martinez, have been best friends forever. When they were little, they drew up The Loyalty Papers, swore to keep their promise to it, and sealed the deal by trading their dear teddie bears. That was untill they found Jared Wilkins the cool new kid. Holly was desprate to find out exactly what had gon on behind stage when she passed out while singing, on stage, in front of the WHOLE SCHOOL!! But only three people know about what happened. Her "best friend" Andie, her crush Jared, and the worm Tom Sly and all she knows is that someone had or atempted to KISS her! Meanwhile Andie is just soo annoying. Holly knows that Jared likes her and Andie just won't face it. Her fight with Andie and the fight to keep Jared only gets worse. A youth group at church is going to hold auditions to have someone new in the group. Andie has already been promised to get in and is going to accompany Jared's singing on the piano! But Tom Sly fixes Jared up good trying to get in good with the unexpecting Holly Meredith by telling the school principal that Jared and a few other boys where smoking and when that didn't work,he got dirty and didn't catch Jared as he fell off the tampoline and onto the ground breaking his leg. Holly finds out that her most favorite aunt no her dad's side has cancer that eventually kills her. Everything was happening so fast! And after all these years of her divorsed dad's no letters thing she gets one out of the blue inviting her to go and spend the spring break with him and his family. She says yes after not making the group as an attempt to get away from this mess. Everthing seemed hopeless and at lest she get away at her dad's house in California right by the beach.Then she discovers something about Jared. He's been cheating on her and Andie! Her getting in trouble for him didn't seem so worth it right now. So at her birthday, on Valentine's Day, she plots against him at the party which was meant to show Andie that he was such a big cheater. Well, her plan back fires even with her fiends', Billy Hill and Marcia Greene, help. Now Andie is even more mad at her. The only good thing that happens is when a girl from her town Dressel Hills, CO drops out of the youth group and gives her the spot in the group but now she has to tell her dad she see him this spring break because of the trip their going on then. At the trip her dad comes making the night complete. She still can't seem to muster up the courage though to ask The Question about why he left her mom, her sister Carrie, and of course HER! You know when some comes and shows you the way back on the path to God when yo get lost, it feels very good. Her person was the very christion Danny Myers. After quoting a few verses and praying she made it through the rest of the musical. After the play was over they would go on to Disney World. There she got Andie's friendship back when at last she saw Jared with her own eyes, playing footsie with the cutest girl in their class. After telling him off they walked together through the park riding the rides they both wanted to ride on. Holly's nickname was returned to her. Instead of being called Holly-Heartless, her old nickname was back to Holly-Heart. I just love this book!! I really was able to relate to it. I sing, I have a crush, I'm thirteen, and I have had lots of bad experiences with friends. I hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I did.

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