The Queen of Everything

Author - Deb Caletti ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Simon Pulse was reviewed on 25-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book The Queen of Everything by Simon Pulse. Sure we all have are bad moments with our parents. But think about it... is it really all that bad?

Jordan MacKenzie is a teen in high school. So far her life has been pretty normal except for her mom. She was so embarrased by her mom that she decided to move in with her dad who she thought was the normal one. She gets a job at "True You" which is a health center and finds a new best friend, Melissa Beene. Then when everything seems to be normal she meets Gayle D´Angelo. She is a very beautiful lady her dads age and is married to a man who is very rich. At first she doesn´t think much of it when this mysterious lady asks about her and her father. Then later on she discovers that her dad and this lady are having an affair even though Gayle is married. They start to make this "friendship" more and more public untill Gayle D´Angelo´s husband hires guys to follow Jordan´s Dad around. While all this is happening Jordan is worried about her Dad and his safty. She is also hurt that he is doing this even though he knows its not right.

During this book, Jordan begins to realise who are her friends and who aren´t. She also learns to deal with bad situations. This book was very good at showing what some teens have to deal with. While reading this book you will be able to see into the mind of a teenager going throught a tragity that will effect her the rest of her life.

By: Anne Tshudy
Mrs. Bains 3rd Block Class¤

2) Paperback Book The Queen of Everything by Simon Pulse. everytime going into the bookstore i would look at THE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING and end up not getting it. until one day i decided to buy it. i love this book! it is one of my favortie books to read to this day.

sixteen year old Jordan´s dad is falling for a woman named gail. but gail is married and her sons go to jordan´s school. THE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING has a polt truning, page turning thriller like book that everyone has to read!¤

3) Paperback Book The Queen of Everything by Simon Pulse. Jordan MacKenzie is your average high-school junior. Her parents are divorced and she lives with her dad, she has a new boyfriend, and an after-school job that´s only so-so. Her father has always seemed like the "normal" one: he´s an optometrist, where as her mother is a leftover hippie who runs a B&B. Then Jordan meets Gayle. Gayle is married, and she´s also dating Jordan´s father. Jordan feels trapped: she knows it´s wrong, but her dad tells her it´s his own business. Then things start to spiral scarily out of control, and Jordan feels trapped. This book tells movingly and compellingly the story of a teen who is lost, and has nowhere to run. Although the circumstances are not extremely commonplace, Jordan´s emotions are, and you´ll be anticipating what will happen next, in both Jordan´s life and her father´s, for the whole book.¤

4) Paperback Book The Queen of Everything by Simon Pulse. Jordan´s life is about to change forever. This teenage girl thought the worse thing that could happen to her would be her artsy mother embarrassing her yet again. Then, her father - the "normal" one, the parent she chose to live with after the divorce, the optometrist - becomes the epicenter of a scandal.

I read this novel when it was released in 2002 and it haunts me to this day. To say this is simply about what happens when teenagers realize that their parents are people too would be accurate, but incomplete. This book is an absolutely amazing story of a girl, a family, and a violent crime. Stunning.¤

5) Paperback Book The Queen of Everything by Simon Pulse. I was a Deb Caletti fan from Honey, Baby, Sweetheart and Wild Roses and just found The Queen Of Everything. Caletti´s books totally rock. Looking for something beyond your average teen read? Her characters are real, multi-dimensional people who you forget aren´t real. I love it that teens have these kind of books that don´t talk down to them or spoon feed their entertainment. Caletti makes you think, and provides a true and memorable world. Can´t wait for the next one.¤

6) Paperback Book The Queen of Everything by Simon Pulse.

High school junior Jordan MacKenzie´s life was pretty typical: fractured family, new boyfriend, dead-end job. She´d been living with her father (the predictable optometrist) since her mother (the hippie holdover) had become too embarrassing to be around. Jordan felt that she finally had as normal a life as she could. Then came Gayle D´Angelo.

Jordan knew her father was dating Gayle and that Gayle was married. Jordan knew it was wrong and that her father was becoming someone she didn´t recognize anymore, but what could she do about it? And how could she -- how could anyone -- have possibly guessed that this illicit love affair would implode in such a violent and disturbing way?¤

7) Paperback Book The Queen of Everything by Simon Pulse. "Nothing like that happens to people like me, not to people like my dad, who changes the oil in his car and pays his bills on time... I mean, imagine it. Your father. Your father. I can tell you, though, it does happen. To people like me." Up until now, 17-year-old Jordan´s biggest problem in life was dealing with her hippy-dippy mom, the kind of woman who "might suddenly flop out a boob" to nurse her little brother. She much preferred the company of her calm, measured father, "a Shredded Wheat and All-Bran guy," who never embarrassed her in front of her friends. That´s why Jordan is stunned when her nice, divorced dad starts acting like a lovelorn teenager over one of their neighbors, Gayle D´Angelo. True, Gayle is pretty, but she´s also married. Too proud to let anyone in their cloistered Pacific Northwest island community know, Jordan decides to handle the situation herself. She tries everything from directly confronting her dad, to dating local thug Kale Kramer in a misguided attempt to gain her father´s attention. But nothing seems to work, and when Gayle´s husband goes missing and the police name Jordan´s dad as a suspect, Jordan´s life rapidly spins out of control.

Emotional and intense, Deb Caletti´s first book for young adults is reminiscent of other recent teen psychological page-turners like Carol Plum-Ucci´s What Happened to Lani Garver and Aimee by Mary Beth Miller. Jordan is a realistic heroine that older female teen readers will sympathize with and cheer for as she struggles to understand this suddenly complex world of adult motivations and desires. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert¤

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