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I Was a Teenage Fairy
I Was a Teenage Fairy
Author: Francesca Lia Block
Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex... A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of superstars and supermodels. A too beautiful boy with a secret he can never share... From the author...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060277475
ISBN-10: 0060277475
Publication Date: 10/1998
Pages: 192
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 29 ratings
Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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retro-redux avatar reviewed I Was a Teenage Fairy on + 219 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
horrible-cannot believe this is recommended for children twelve and up-definately skip it, unless you're into child molestation, drugs, smoking, drinking, and underage sex.
LaurieS avatar reviewed I Was a Teenage Fairy on + 504 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
This book is about a young girl named Barbie blessed (or cursed) with beauty and forced into modeling by her controlling mom (an ex-model herself, living vicariously through her child). When she's 11 she meets Mab, a sarcastic fairy, who almost reluctantly becomes Barbie's friend. During this same time she's molested by a lecherous photographer. Her mother tells her not to cry, that life is full of problems and she had just better learn to deal with them.

Fast forward 5 years and Barbie's a rail thin, jaded model. Mab is still part of her life, encouraging her to have sex which I found bizarre seeing as she's only 16 . . .

This book was just "eh, so what" for me. I didn't connect with the character and the sparse writing style left me cold. The issues of molestation, teen sex, drugs, homosexuality, etc. seemed to be very glossed over but I guess that couldn't be helped seeing as the book was so short. Maybe I'm just getting too old for this stuff? Nah, that can't be it.
reviewed I Was a Teenage Fairy on + 21 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I love Francesca Lia Block. She paints the most vivid pictures with her words. I highly recommend this.
amichai avatar reviewed I Was a Teenage Fairy on + 368 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Characteristically dark fairy story by Francesca Lia Block, incorporating magic and childhood abuse among other things.
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Helpful Score: 2
This book provides a realistic view of modern Los Angeles. Mab is a fairy who may or may not be the figment of Barbie's imagination, Mab helps Barbie through a tough childhood of being put through the child modeling scene. Its pretty deep and definately not the book to be giving your teenager if your a protective parent without pre-reading it first, it deals with sexual themes and drugs.
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This is one of my fav books of all time, i have read it so many times!


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