Rgz Street Team: Jacqueline Reviews the Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter

The rgz Street Team is a group of teens who bring YA reviews to our blog, led by Postergirl Miss Erin. Find out more.

Today, Jacqueline tells us about the first three Gallagher Girls books by our featured July author, Ally Carter!

"The Gallagher Girls Series consists of 4 books, and the newest one has just been released. These books were all amazing! I loved how the suspension and intensity of the books. In the first book they reveal that Cammie Morgan actually goes to a 'spy school' where breaking CIA codes is normal. So why all of the sudden when Cammie likes an ordinary boy does everything get hard? Yes, she could easily manipulate him, but she wants a normal relationship which, of course, makes everything MUCH harder.

"In the second book, nothing is going right for Cammie, and she needs her mom the most. But with her mom acting weird Cammie knows something's up--she wants to figure it out.

"The third book starts with Cammie visiting her roomate Macey in Boston to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for Vice President of the United States. Being a spy, Cammie is never far away from danger, and having a normal summer is out of question." --Jacqueline Glade

rgz Street Team: Jacqueline Reviews Paper Towns by John Green

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Today, Jacqueline reviews Paper Towns, the featured title this month by John Green!

"Reading Paper Towns was like reading a mystery, love story, and a teenage drama all intertwined and I LOVED IT!

"Quentin Jacobsen is the average teenager boy, he likes hanging out with friends, talking about girls, and partying. Margo Roth Spiegelman is not the average teenage girl. She is the most popular girl at her school, she has the hottest boyfriend, and she is a mystery that no one can really figure out.

"When Margo shows up at Quentin’s window late one night he can think of no one he would rather be with. He has no idea what he has just gotten himself into. Leaving little 'surprises' at the house of a bully, in the car of a former best friend, for her ex-boyfriend (he cheated on her with her best friend) and visiting Sea World and the biggest sky-scraper in Florida all in one night with Margo seems like all of Quentin's life wishes fulfilled. The only problem is that the next morning and the days following after that Margo is nowhere to be found.

"Quentin, desperate for answers about her shocking disappearance, looks for any clues to why Margo left. When he starts to get a lead on where she is he decides that Margo meant for him to find the clues because she wanted him to find her. On his frantic journey to find the girl he may or may not love not only does Quentin find out things about Margo he never knew, he finds himself as well." --Jacqueline Glade

rgz Street Team: Jacqueline Reviews Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee

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Today, Jacqueline reviews Absolutely Maybe, the featured title this month by Lisa Yee!

"Named after her mother’s favorite mascara, Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut is different in every way. With multiple hairstyles, and very little fashion sense, Maybelline is the opposite of her mother, Chessamay Chestnut Abajian Wing Marshall Wing Sinclair Alavrez -- also known as Chessy. With quite a long name for small-town, pageant-loving, commitment-confused, alcoholic mother you would be surprised how little self confidence she has.

"Through too many marriages to count, Maybelline’s last name seems to be the only thing she has in common with her mother. Her nonexistent father figure has always bothered her and when Chessy believes her soon-to-be-husband over Maybelline, it’s finally the last straw. On a quest to find her father, Maybelline finds herself on the way to Los Angeles with her best friends Ted and 'Hollywood.'

"This book is officially on my top ten favorite books' list. Throughout the book, I felt as if it were my life and I had to turn the page to see what would happen! I absolutely loved this book!" --Jacqueline Glade

rgz review: Jacqueline on The Secret Life of Prince Charming

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

By: Deb Caletti

Review written By: Jacqueline Glade

Reading The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti, I found out things I didn't know, had heard many times in love stories (yet it didn't sound like a cliche), and the beautiful truth of love. Not only is this book based on a family and their confusing struggles with love, but it also includes a teen girl, Quinn; her sister, Sprout; and her half-sister, Frances Lee.

The girls quest to return missing items to Quinn's fathers past lovers. They weren't missing from Quinn's father, Berry, though. He kept them and pretended like he had no idea where they went, but he really placed them in a room like a display. Names and ages on the bottom of the objects were the only evidence of the prior owners of the items. Quinn saw this and felt as if the things needed to be returned and the quest began.

Quinn and her sisters' adventure to the various houses of Berry's past lovers is one of my favorite parts in the book. With every house came a new part of Berry's long confusing love life. The "stories" that the women Berry had been with, the women that had loved him, were full of truth and never settled pain. I understood how each and everyone of those women felt, not through personal experience but through the avid description.

I loved this book for many different reasons one of which of course had to do with love. This is one of the best books I have ever read and would recommend it to teen girls.