Franks is thirteen years old and has it all worked out, What she needs is a plan to elevate her and her bff from average in her mind being equivalent to inconsequential to popular.
And in a few short chapters she achieves her goal, which soon has a bonus inclusion of meeting the acceptable styleoftheday, fashion standards and conversational topics of her new group.
Throw in a 'meet by text' boy, and she's pretty much in heaven, . . or so she thinks. Then things go wrong. Very wrong.
Her parents get this ridiculous idea that she and her siblings, but never mind them must be uprooted from her now 'perfect' life and dumped in some backofnowhere rural Australian locality.
Horses, leeches and other unsavouries included,
Through this 'trauma', Coco eventually and I do mean eventually, as she's pretty good at being hard headed and pouty has opportunity to learn that good friends don't necessarily dress in the latest fashions, and maybe the fact she's had to lie to keep 'in' with her new group could be a hint to look a little deeper when it comes to choosing her friends and life priorities.
But then again, if she could just convince her parents that the relocation was a complete mistake, she could leave behind the eyerollworthy country folk and their bumpkin ways and get on with her life.
Maybe.
This was a fun story I felt I could comfortably recommend to young readers in the target demographic.
And enjoyed myself. : Although Coco can put on a mothersized turn, I think most tweens and young teens would be able to see the humour lurking in the shadows of her tanticloud.
With Coco's choices come more serious consequences, which enables young readers an opportunity to take away some valuable perspectives on friendships and family.
This is a very cute novel!
Coco and her friend Samantha want nothing more but to be popular.
So when Saffron and Tiger Lily begin to run the school, they have one goal: Be their friend! The girls have tryouts to join their group and Coco is picked! But not long after, her dad tells the family that they are moving out to the middle of nowhere.
Coco feels like her life is RUINED, She is nothing without her friends and her fashion, She throws a fit and her parents finally tell her that she has to try it for one year and if she absolutely hates it, she can come back to her old school.
Throughout that year Coco does a lot of growing up and learns a lot about herself, love, and life.
It's a great story about finding yourself and making true friends, I would definitely recommend it to middle school girls or anyone who loves goodhearted stories, Disappointing after enjoying Patersons Invisible series but I acknowledge that the book is pitched at an audience a quarter of my age! The main character was hard to sympathise with and the resolution didnt leave me believing that she was any less selfcentred.
I read it in one day,
There's something about Coco Franks that I loved and completely hated, I am her sister Charlie so I didn't really align myself in understanding Coco's mindset of needing makeup.
But there was something so fascinating about Coco's view on life that, despite her brattiness, endeared her to me immediately.
It brought me back to my teenage years in a very real way, She really does go through a lot and you can't help but feel for her, the stubborn brat!
Part of me just loved Coco for her want to fit in, her drive to be as loved and accepted as Charlie.
Being popular as her "thing" seemed sufficient motivation as to why Coco wanted to be so popular for me, and was willing to forgo all else for it, although I could never adopt that mindset myself.
What's great about her brattiness is the development that came a long with this story.
Coco is annoying, selfconsumed, and totally snarky, But she develops in a muddy, more accepting, contrite girl that moves forward past her selfconsumption.
I was most impressed by the amount of character development I saw in this book,
I loved Charlie, too, And the hilarious exploits that Coco found herself in that made me bust up, I know some other reviews have tagged this as a slow start, but Coco has so much attitude and voice at the beginning that I was hooked from the getgo and didn't think it was slow at all.
Personality is Coco's hook, and she has it in abundance,
I've read Paterson's other novel, and while I enjoyed Invisible, and it made me want to read this one, I LOVED this book.
It's totally appropriate for any girl who has ever been through the teen years, who may be currently going through them, or who anticipates going through them soon.
I'm keeping my eye on Paterson for future works, Bookof my reading challenge a very enjoyable teen read with lots of fun in the country for twins Coco amp Charlie.
A great read for horse lovers, This is a first in a series onlymore out at this time that I can tell: Charlie Franks is AOK but stands alone quite nicely.
Set in Australia but probably universal for Westernyr, olds! Cute although the level of shallowness displayed by the main character for a good chunk of the book is really annoying.
Of course that may be the point! Luckily, character development does happen sometimes painfully slowly, sometimes almost unbelievably quickly but it happens! A wee bit repetitive at times, but not distractingly so.
Not a great story for adults, but probably excellent for its target audience which I assume is the preteen to very early teenage girl.
I may read the second book one of these days, Would recommend it to anyone with a preteen daughter, One caveat: Does deal with unwanted sexual touching by older teen boy but it handles it well.
I wish the victim had told an adult, but understand that most often they won't, and why so this is very realistic, and a good lesson for the reader.
.Coco has attitude and is full of herself but she doesn't know that, We get a good insight into her through the first person narrative, She is funny and intelligent, but she has a lot to learn, Though she is angry at her dad for shifting her away from the city and her snobby horrid meangirl friends, and she is determined to keep that anger alive, there are many adventures and country disasters that eventually help Coco to see just how much she needs to take a long hard look at things.
Themes of bullying and teenage angst about appearance are featured, I'd recommend for girls aged, It was fun and funny, This edition has sitelinkanother cover
Thirteen year old fashionista Coco Franks has finally made it into the popular group at school and is planning to have the most amazing year ever.
But then her dad decides to go all ecoferalgreeniecrazytreechange and moves the whole family to a remote farm so they can 'bond'.
With social death looming and more than a few pairs of ballet flats ruined by mud, Coco's plan is to get herself back to Sydney and her clique at any cost.
But it will take an Akubrahatandflannyshirtwearing boy and a nervous horse called Cupcake to show her who her real friends are.
A short teen story written by an Australian author, this story focuses on Coco Franks.
She is just turningas the story starts, Coco is determined to fit in with the popular girls definitely of the mean girl variety at her school.
When they are auditioning for a new member, Coco is thrilled to be chosen, As she gets used to mandatory spa days and color palettes, her father announces that the family is moving to a farm in the outback.
Coco is devastated at the effect this will have on her new popularity,
That was the setup to this story, which unfortunately lasted much longer in the book.
Once the family moved, it was much more interesting, We got to see Coco develop a little more personality, I loved reading about the house building and the horse farm, Overall a decent story with a very strong message about being true to yourself and not being a victim of the quest for others' approval.
I wouldn't mind reading thend book and reading more about Coco's twin sister, I'm an adult, but I got this book free in an email, so I went ahead and read it.
It's a cute comingofage story filled with ups and downs, and embarrassing situations, It's a good book for teens and tweens alike, There are a lot of relatable situations that even a grown up can understand and remember feeling when they were young.
I would definitely recommend it, A really enjoyable book for teenage girls, It's not only funny but it shows really clearly the difference between real friends and mean girls and it really rams home the message that popularity is not worth having if you have to be fake to attain it.
And extra points for featuring a really solid genuine likeable guy, Even though Coco is such a spoiled brat she hardly deserves real friends yet I was glad when she finally saw the light.
By the way, the cover of the book I read was much nicer! I really enjoyed this book.
Although I'm an adult and it's clearly written for a younger audience, I found it very entertaining and read it in a day and a half.
There were some great lines and I found the asides amusing, A great readstars! Star Rating
Bravo!!! A fascinating story with pleasing amp impressive writing style.
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If I ever had to describe about the book, I'll describe it like this,
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Super Interesting
. Super Amazing
. Super Impressive
. Super Satisfying Story!
Yeah, Definitely these are the fine words to describe my feelings of the story.
Author's writing style was the exact writing style I always expect when I started
to read a book.
It's very pleasing amp I love it, I think her writing style was always able
to keep me on the track,
Story plot amp concepts were excellent amp interesting, And also a pageturner, indeed,
Character Development was absolutely PERFECT, All the characters had various amp
unique characteristics, For instance, Coco amp charlie had completely opposite characteristics,
I love the simple, smooth amp calmy feelings I felt while the reading, And I love the warmth sensation
clasp through my heart amp brain while the reading lot.
Absolutely, a stunning amp brilliant novel, Recommended!
Read like a Disney movie, Especially reminded me of Hannah Montana: the Movie but with some Mean Girls thrown haphazardly in there.
Love and Muddy Puddles by Cecily Anne Paterson is the first book of the Coco and Charlie Franks series.
This one is more middle grade than young adult with the characters being thirteen but they certainly bring to mind the old saying of thirteen going on thirty but its a cute contemporary read.
Coco and Charlie are thirteen year old twins that are actually pretty opposite in nature.
Coco cares about nothing more than getting into the popular crowd and has spent years with her best friend
planning and plotting on just how they could do so.
Just when things go Cocos way however her father drops a bomb on the girls announcing theyre moving to the country.
Coco may be the type of character that some would find annoying but others will find hysterical and entertaining, I happened to be in the latter crowd.
Very much self absorbed Coco only cared about herself in the beginning but a bit on the predictable side the story sees her grow and learn throughout.
This one turned out to me to be quite a cute read overall with plenty of chuckles along the way that I would rate.
stars.
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