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Footfree and Fancyloose

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Best friends Harper Waddle, Sophie Bushell, and Kate Foster committed the ultimate suburban sin: bailing on college to pursue their dreams. Middlebury-bound Becca Winsberg was convinced her friends had gone insane until they reminded her she just might have a dream of her own.

Now the year is half-way through and their dreams seem within reach. Well, almost. Harper has managed to gain the freshman fifteen without ever being a freshman, though locked in her basement bathroom she finds inspiration and finally seems to be writing from the heart. Sophie is forced to leave her cushy Beverly Hills quarters and crashes on Sam's couch while looking for her big Hollywood break. Kate is doing aid work in Ethiopia, where she encounters family ghosts - along with Darby, the handsome but antagonistic Princeton student who thinks she's a dumb blonde who couldn't possibly care about Ethiopia "since there are no celebrities here." And when Becca finally emerges from her lovers' nest, it seems her relationship with Stuart isn't as perfect as she thought.

Even if "the year that changed everything" has sometimes been less than dreamy, these four best friends will always have each other.
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    • School Library Journal

      October 1, 2008
      Gr 10 Up-The "Year of Dreams" continues for Harper, Kate, Becca, and Sophie, BFF. In "Bass Ackwards and Belly Up" (Little, Brown, 2006), Harper, because she did not get into NYU, told a little white liethat she decided to take a year off before college to follow her dream to write a novel. Admiring her bravery, her best friends make a pact to follow their own aspirationsBecca wants to fall in love, Sophie wants to be an actress, and Kate dumps her acceptance to Harvard to find herself by backpacking through Europe. The story continues in this sequel as the girls persist in their efforts while pursuing romantic interests. The events are related through each protagonist's point of view, and the narrative is filled with the label-dropping shallowness of the day. There are sex scenes, strong language, and lots of cute boys. Settings such as a hip Denver coffee shop, Hollywood, and a private college in Vermont, with a humanitarian trip to Ethiopia thrown in, should entice plenty of eager readers, especially fans of the first book. While the story does move quickly and has a decent story line, it's not worthy of the A-list of chick lit."Angela J. Reynolds, Annapolis Valley Regional Library, Bridgetown, NS, Canada"

      Copyright 2008 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2008
      This sequel to Bass Ackwards and Belly Up follows best friends Harper, Sophie, Kate, and Becca as they ditch their traditional college plans for a "Year of Dreams" in which each pursues personal goals ranging from Hollywood stardom to falling in love. The emotions ring true, and the alternation among the girls' perspectives keeps the novel balanced and fun to read.

      (Copyright 2008 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • ATOS Level:5.4
  • Lexile® Measure:820
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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