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Sweethearts
Sweethearts
Author: Sara Zarr
As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts.They were also one another's only friend.So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she's lost the only person who will ever understand her.Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed.Known as Jenna, she's popular, happy, and dating, everything "Jenni...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780316014557
ISBN-10: 0316014559
Publication Date: 2/1/2008
Pages: 224
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 23 ratings
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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sfc95 avatar reviewed Sweethearts on + 686 more book reviews
This is a simple and somewhat interesting teen book about relationships. It gives fictional accounts of an overwhelming change from geek to beauty, which we all no gives false hope to all those teens reading it instead of dating etc. To me is was ok, a good story with likeable enough characters but the book had no complete ending and really in looking back at it, no real story.
Cindy84 avatar reviewed Sweethearts on + 118 more book reviews
My Thoughts: This was such a good book! We are introduced to Jennifer and Cameron as children. They are best friends. They do everything together, and Cameron "gets" Jennifer even when all the other kids make fun of her. All of a sudden, one day he is gone, and all the kids tell her he's dead, so she spends weeks crying over him. Years go by, Jennifer has changed into a whole other person. Now she goes by Jenna and has grew out of her "kid stage." Cameron shows back up in town! And he looks different, hot even. Jennifer still feels that connection towards him as kids, not quite a brother, but not a boyfriend either. Don't want to give away the whole book but this is truly a good book. Had me wanting to laugh at times and cry at times. Give it a read!

Overall: I loved it! It was such a good and heartfelt story!

Cover: Its so plain, yet so gorgeous. I love the cookie. It looks like a sugar cookie with pink frosting. Makes me very hungry
whippoorwill avatar reviewed Sweethearts on
Sweethearts is one of those novels that my words will always be inferior in describing. It's one of those novels that is experienced, not just read. It's a novel that makes you question yourself and what you believe about yourself, and the world, and your own personal history. It's what I like to call a "What If" novel. What if this happened to me? What would I do? What if there is no right or wrong way to react?

What would you do if someone from your past, someone you thought was dead (and might as well have been) suddenly reappears and brings along with him secrets and pain of a former life you thought you'd successfully buried long ago? For Jenna, the sudden reappearance of Cameron, her best childhood friend, brings confusing memories as she struggles to reconcile who she is now at 17, with the Jennifer she was in 5th grade.

I loved it. Loved it in a way I've loved only three other books: Raise High the Roof-beam Carpenters, Looking For Alaska, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Novels that made me cry, hold my breath, and hope they would never end.

Sweethearts is the type of book that makes me wish it was around when I was a teen. It's a book I would have loved / needed at that age. Like Looking for Alaska and Nick and Norah, Sweethearts is a book that makes me wish I had the ability to go back in time and experience them again for the first time as a teen.

Rating: 5 closet food binges out of 5.
sparkle101 avatar reviewed Sweethearts on + 15 more book reviews
This was such a sweet book! I fell in love with Cameron<3
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Sweet, short novel.

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Jennifer Harris (Primary Character)
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