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Best friends Summer and Marci are in a quandry when they tell obnoixious Jennifer that they have dates for the Spring fling. Unfortunately for them, this is not exactly true. The only way to recover from the ultimate humiliation of getting caught in this ile is to produce actual dates for the dance. Luckily for them, the girls' part-time boss, crazy Doris Trowbridge, finds a magic ring. With it, she turns two pet rats into the cutest guys they have ever seen. But now everyone, including Jennifer, is interested in them. And rats have a lot more in common with boys than anyone would think...
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 5-8-Eberhardt has created several teen movies and it shows in his first book's clich?d characters, overblown plot, and predictable conclusion. Marci, the 14-year-old narrator, and her best friend, Summer, live in suburban Indianapolis, where they work for "Weird Doris" at her junk shop, Hidden Treasures, and care for two rats that she's adopted. One day Doris discovers a magic ring in an old box she's bought. Coincidentally, Marci has angered Summer by bragging to Jennifer Martin, their arch rival, that they have dates to the big Spring Fling dance that night when they don't. Ta da! Doris uses the ring not only to transmutate herself into a popular "daytime drama star," but also changes the rats, ? la Cinderella's godmother, into hot-looking guys for her young friends. The Spring Fling is turned into chaos, Jennifer is upstaged, and Marci learns that ordinary girls can handle the weirdness of life better than someone so pampered. This is literally labeled an epiphany. Written to imitate, rather than approximate, teenspeak, the book's frequent misuse of "like" and "this" may even irritate the preteen girls most likely to read it. Steer those looking for a fast read about popularity to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's "Alice" books (Atheneum) or Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl (Knopf, 2000). Fans of fractured fairy tales will find richer, more satisfying material in Robin McKinley's Beauty (HarperCollins, 1978), Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted (HarperCollins, 1997), or Patrice Kindl's Goose Chase (Houghton, 2001).-Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Though screenwriter Eberhardt's zany plot makes no pretense at credibility, it introduces a witty, believable 15-year-old narrator whose language liberally sprinkled with the kind of teen jargon that makes English teachers cringe can be overheard at any mall. In a foreword, Marci explains that the tale she is about to relay, involving her best friend, took place a year earlier when the two were ninth graders: "This whole thing is really about the first dates me and Summer ever had in our lives, which were these two totally cool, cute beyond belief guys. I am not kidding about this they were to drool and die for." And they are, quite literally, rats, turned into handsome humans with the help of a magic ring that grants the wish of the person wearing it in this case Doris, the owner of an antique store for which Marci and Summer work part-time. Bribing the rat boys with food, the girls teach them to talk and dance in an attempt to pass them off as real guys at the town's annual spring dance and to show up their nemesis, a popular, picture-perfect classmate. As the ruse spins out of control, slapstick twists, snappy dialogue and wry asides from Marci create some laugh-out-loud moments reminiscent of a teen-targeted screenplay. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Marci and Summer, two somewhat geeky ninth graders, have to come up with the dates they boasted about for the end-of-school dance. A magic ring at a junk shop and a pair of pet rats do the job, but the girls have to keep the rat boys from gnawing everything in sight. While the first-person narrative's teenspeak becomes irritating, nonstop action and light humor drive this book to its satisfying conclusion. From HORN BOOK Fall 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Two 14-year-old girls of the less-than-stunningly-beautiful variety use a chance encounter with a magic ring to provide themselves with dates for the big town dance. If you're into, like, total fluff, this'll do it. Marci tells in her amusing valley-girl style how she and her best friend Summer attempt to convince ultracool Jennifer to think they are not rejects. The transmutation of two pet rats into studmuffins provides the comic premise along with the change of weird Doris of the local secondhand shop into a famous soap opera star. Rat-training is a combination of reward and aversion with some complications in the reward part limiting it to food, and the aversion part limited to the use of an electric "Juicer Gooser" borrowed from the repellent twin boys next door. That an Indiana town is having "Spring Fling" in March along with blooming bougainvillea is no more outrageous than anything else that happens in this Hollywood-wannabe comedy by screenwriter Eberhardt. With no pretensions, this is just plain fun and as memorable as your last set of hiccup inducing giggles at a sleepover. (Fiction. 10-14)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 6-8. Marci and Summer are cute and popular. Jennifer Martin is perfect. Then puberty hits, turning Jennifer into Junior Miss Indiana, and Marci and Summer into normal, awkward, orthodontically challenged 14-year-olds. When Jennifer insults Marci and Summer, Marci blurts out that she and Summer have dates for the Spring Fling dance. With the help of an eccentric store owner and a magic ring, the girls turn two pet rats into dates, but with unanticipated results. Mix-ups and lessons ensue, and when life eventually returns to normal, Marci and Summer are a little more accepting of themselves and others. The story isn't particularly credible. Rat-boys aside, it's hard, for example, to believe that young teens would discuss their menstrual cycle as explicitly as Eberhardt's characters do, and repeated use of phrases such as "I'm like, `huh'" wears one's patience after a while. Still, it's lighthearted stuff, and the end is refreshingly realistic: obnoxious Jennifer just keeps on being obnoxious. --Marta Segal