Book: All American Girl
Author: Meg Cabot
Pages: 416
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Reviewed by: Kat (Age 20)
Amazon.com Price: $6.99
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Review By Kat

In All American Girl, 14-year-old Sam as an ordinary teenage girls who is virtually invisible at home – where she’s a middle child and at school – where she’s unpopular then one day while skipping her art class she inadvertently ends up foiling an assassination attempt on the President and overnight becomes America’s hero. As a thank-you the President makes Sam Teen Ambassador to the United Nations which exultingly makes her a regular visitor to the White House. Sam also finds herself strangely attracted to the President’s son David, which totally doesn’t make sense cause she’s 100% in love with her big sister Lucy’s boyfriend Jack…

All American Girl has much of the same appeal as author Meg Cabot’s hit series The Princess Diaries. The book is full of whacky laugh-out-loud moments and is written in first person by Sam. Included are various top 10 lists including ‘The top 10 things not to do at a press conference’, ‘The top 10 signs that Jack loves me and not my sister Lucy and just hasn’t realized it yet’ and ‘Top 10 things Gwen Stefanie would not be caught dead doing’.

Sam is a brilliant character that any teenage girl can relate to. She’s clumsy, she’s a picky eater, she says and does stupid and embarrassing things and she’s completely loveable.

All American Girl is definitely a must read for teen girls. I recommend it.