Name: Folded notes from high school
Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780451478207

Matthew Boren

It's 1991, and Tara Maureen Murphy is finally on top. A frightening cross between Regina George and Tracy Flick, Tara Maureen Murphy is any high school's worst nightmare, bringing single-minded ambition, narcissism, manipulation, and jealousy to new extremes in this outrageous, satirical twist on the coming-of-age novel.

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Folded notes from high school

Matt Boren

A status-obsessed senior unexpectedly falls for a freshman because of his Danny Zuko audition in their high school's production of Grease in this outrageously funny epistolary novel set in 1991. "Matt Boren brilliantly captures the voices of students way back in 1992 with humor and wit and a unique ability to shift from freshman to senior, boy to girl, cheerleader to theater geek. In this hilarious novel, Boren adeptly proves that the more things change, the more things stay the same." --Kelly Ripa The folded notes collected for this book represent correspondence surrounding one Tara Maureen Murphy, senior at South High c. 1991-1992. It's 1991, and Tara Maureen Murphy is finally on top. A frightening cross between Regina George and Tracy Flick, Tara Maureen Murphy is any high school's worst nightmare, bringing single-minded ambition, narcissism, manipulation, and jealousy to new extremes in this outrageous, satirical twist on the coming-of-age novel. She's got a hot jock boyfriend in Christopher Patrick Caparelli, her best friend Stef Campbell by her side, and she's a SENIOR, poised to star as Sandy in South High's production of Grease. Clinching the role is just one teensy step in Tara's plot to get out of her hometown and become the Broadway starlet she was born to be. She's grasping distance from the finish line--graduation and college are right around the corner--but she has to remain vigilant. "This dumb town, as we know, can be a very tricky place." --Tara Maureen Murphy It gets trickier with the arrival of freshman Matthew Bloom, whose dazzling audition for the role of Danny Zuko turns Tara's world upside down. Freshmen belong in the chorus, not the spotlight! But Tara's outrage is tinged with an unfamiliar emotion, at least to her: adoration. And what starts as a conniving ploy to "mentor" young Matt quickly turns into a romantic obsession that threatens to topple Tara's hard-won status at South High....

Folded Notes from High School

Jackie

I loved the nostalgia that this book brought back with the notes! When I saw that it was set in the 90s, I just HAD to read it since I'm a 90s kid myself (although the book is set a year to two years before I was born!) With the way that it ended, I'm praying that we'll get more since I do have some questions with a few cliffhangers in it.

Despite Tara's character being manipulative, I really enjoyed reading the notes she wrote and also getting the points of view on her from the other character's as well. I wish that Joy's character had been included from her own perspective since I kind of hate her due to Tara's perspective and I know that it would have been the same way Stacey wise had we not been able to read from her point of view.

I very much enjoyed that the entire book was written as various letters! It was a very refreshing set up that I loved more than I thought I would!

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