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Girl Talk
Girl Talk
Author: Julianna Baggott
Lissy Jablonski was fifteen during the summer of 1985. That was the summer her father, a soft-spoken, seemingly passionless gynecologist, up and left her mother for a redheaded bank teller. The same summer Lissy and her mother disappeared from their quiet New Hampshire lives to have an adventure of their own amid a cast of unlikely characters, i...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743400824
ISBN-10: 0743400828
Publication Date: 2/1/2001
Pages: 256
Rating:
  • Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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2.7 stars, based on 19 ratings
Publisher: Atria
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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StephanieW avatar reviewed Girl Talk on + 34 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Baggott tries, and tries hard, but this novel never really takes off. The prose is mediocre and an editor should have caught some of the grammatical errors. Meanwhile, the characters are rather one-dimensional and the novel never adequately "grabs you" like a good book should.

Give this book a go if you're looking for a summer read. It will entertain you, but ultimately it leaves you feeling as though you wasted your time.
reviewed Girl Talk on + 10 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is a touching, great book.
reviewed Girl Talk on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book seemed to drag on in some places but was a pretty good read all in all.
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Helpful Score: 1
Great easy summer read!
BooksForever avatar reviewed Girl Talk on + 37 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Good chick lit book.
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kaybabe102906 avatar reviewed Girl Talk on
This is a wonderful book for girls that are very close with their mothers. My mother is my best friend, and a friend of mine bought me this book bc it reminded her of me. (:
SFmom avatar reviewed Girl Talk on + 9 more book reviews
I liked it - so did others:

-- Glamour --
A smart, quirky chronicle of mother-daughter bonding and binding.


-- USA Today --
What really makes this book a good read is the way Baggott allows her readers to get into her characters' feelings....She kindly allows one to care about how each character reacts to one another.


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