Flirt Club

Description

Isabelle and Annie are two self-professed middle-school drama geeks who have no idea how to flirt with boys--successfully. Their sweet, awkward, and painful attempts at romance are getting them nowhere, so they start Flirt Club, an after-school support group for similarly afflicted friends who decide to take decisive and strategic action. Told entirely through notes passed in school, diary entries, and the occasional e-mail, "Flirt Club "is a hilarious and touching tween novel about love and lust with a heart, a brain, and a whole lot more.

Cathleen Daly is a writer and perfomance artist who lives in the Bay Area outside San Francisco.

"Oh the trauma of first kisses, crushes and co-ed convos. Izzy and Annie lose their ability to speak around boys. So they start Flirt Club, a secret society of equally distressed buds to help each other out, landing some hilarious and touching results."--"Girls' Life" "Told through very funny notes to each other, journal entries, and minutes from Flirt Club meetings, Daly's debut sparkles with wit, and her protagonists brim with enthusiasm and heart."--"Publishers Weekly," Starred Review "Told through a series of notes, journal entries, and minutes from Flirt Club meetings, Daly's tale of the (mis)adventures of a pair of self-professed drama dorks is a warm and funny portrait of the ups and downs of middle school life."--"The Horn Book" "The girls' friendships are authentic and the situations are definitely on target for middle schoolers."--"School Library Journal" "With a pleasing blend of genuine warmth and witty banter, Daly gets the tone just right as she offers up a nice counterbalance to the typical mean-girl story, focusing more on the candid affection between Annie and Izzy than on junior-high dramatics."--"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books" "Told through the girls' locker notes, lists, and journal entries, this entertaining read features peppy prose, humor, and on-target issues, such as dealing with insecurities, heartbreak, mean girls, and physical-relationship pressures."--"Booklist" "Just the ticket for preadolescent girls."--"Kirkus Reviews"