Adapted from husband and wife Bennett and Gottesfeld's (previously teamed for University Hospital) stage drama of the same name, this time-travel view of the Holocaust is long on gimmickry and short on history. Nicole Burns is a self-absorbed...
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Cherie Bennett, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-440-22029-9
A beauty queen develops a rare (and fictional) weight-gaining disorder. ""Reading this often artificial novel for insight into [issues of weight, self-image and beauty] is a little like eating peanut M&Ms for the protein, but it's a similarly...
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Cherie Bennett, Author Puffin Books $3.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-036318-0
Bennett, author of the Sunset Island books, kicks off her Surviving 16 trilogy with the tale of smart, beautiful, exceedingly haughty Amber, a talented dancer who lives with her single mother in a rundown house on the wrong side of the tracks. As...
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Cherie Bennett, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-32274-4
Lara Ardeche seems to have everything--the perfect boyfriend, a roomful of beauty pageant trophies, a talent for the piano and terrific looks--and as her saga begins, she is crowned homecoming queen of her Nashville high school. Upon this paragon,...
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Cherie Bennett, Author Apple $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-05959-6
Neither the course of true love nor friendship runs smooth in Bennett's (Girls in Love; The Bridesmaids) bubbly, if contrived, tale. Three 12-year-olds--tomboy Annie, romantic Cassie and perfectionist Breezy--pledge to be best friends forever, as...
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Cherie Bennett, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-32669-8
Adapted from a play Bennett (University Hospital, reviewed below) wrote for young audiences, this uneasy mix of fantasy and realism focuses on a sixth-grader's fatal bout with leukemia. At first there are two separate threads, and the narrative...
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Cherie Bennett, Author, Jeff Gottesfeld, With Berkley $3.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-425-15851-7
Bennett, author of the Sunset Island novels, teams up with Gottesfeld in a new series that pulls out all the stops to snare female young adults looking for a read that's, well, just a trifle trashy. Cliches and coincidences abound, intentionally and
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Cherie Bennett, Author, Jeff Gottesfeld, Joint Author Berkley Trade Pub $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-17144-8
This series opener delivers melodrama, albeit of the telegenic variety. Five recent high school graduates who hope to become doctors win places in a prestigious summer program in a hospital on the Massachusetts coast. All are competing for a...
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Cherie Bennett, Author, Jeff Gottesfeld, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-32749-7
Shortly after Bennett and Gottesfeld's (the Trash series) strained novel opens, a family move wrenches 16-year-old narrator Kate from her suburban friends and beloved playwriting workshops in New York City, and immerses her in Redford, a small...
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Cherie Bennett, Author, Jeff Gottesfeld, Author Simon Pulse $4.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-671-03630-0
With the plot of Bennett's Life in the Fat Lane taken in reverse, this far-fetched debut novel in the Mirror Image series features a girl who goes from geeky to glam. Fifteen-year-old Callie is nothing like her ""perfect"" older sister, Laurel, who...
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Cherie Bennett, Author, Patricia MacDonald, Editor Pocket Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-86513-9
Like Modern Love (see above), this first installment of the planned Wild Hearts series centers on a topic near and dear to the MTV generation. Here it is rock 'n' roll that adds the all-important hip edge to the narrative. Convinced that she will...
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