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All-American Girl: Book 1

All-American Girl (2002) (edit title/settings)

by Meg Cabot (Author) (edit contributors)

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Samantha Madison is just your average disenfranchised sophomore gal living in D.C. when, in an idle moment sandwiched between cookie-buying and CD-perusing, she puts a stop to an attempt on the life of the president. Before she can say "MTV2" she’s appointed Teen Ambassador to the U.N. and has... read more

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This book is about Samantha Madison - a girl who is unpopular and who always wears black. She is the middle child, her older sister is Lucy. She is a popular girl in school and she is a cheerleader and her younger sister is Rebecca. She is Genius and go to special school. And she's in love... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

This book is about Samantha Madison - a girl who is unpopular and who always wears black. She is the middle child, her older sister is Lucy. She is a popular girl in school and she is a cheerleader and her younger sister is Rebecca. She is Genius and go to special school. And she's in love with her sister's boyfriend (Jack), she is waiting tell he realize that, he is in love with her not with her sister Lucy

Lucy one day find celebrity drawings in Samantha germany notebook in her room, so she show it to her parents at dinner, so now Samantha parents know's why she always get C- in germany class. Her punishment was to go to drawing classes at Susan Boone.

In her first day in Susan Boone she find a nice guy, David who's wearing band T-shirt. And he liked her boots that she is wearing. In Susan Boone class Susan want them to draw what they see not what they know, so it was Samantha first day, that's mean that she don't know that yet. While she was drawing he first drawing (Fruit plate) she add some pineapple's and pear's, she embarrassed that day cause she is the only one who add anything in the drawing. In her second class she tries to skip by sitting in music shop tell the class end and go home, so at 5:30 she was waiting for Theresa, the house keeper. While she was waiting she see The president in the cookie shop, he was waiting for his son, David but Samantha don't know that. In the time she is waiting she see a man who is caring a gun to The President side, so she jump on him. So that's how she saved The President . And after saving the president life she became the teen ambassador to the UN.

After a while she find out that she is not in love with Jack, she is in love with David. ☺

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  • “My dad looked up. "Why are Keanu and Josh more than Justin?""Because," I explained, "Justin has less hair.""Oh," my dad said. "I see."”
    Sam and her dad about Sam's drawing prices
  • “Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.”
    Samantha Madison
  • “Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”
    Samantha Madison
  • “A frisson. A tremor of intense attraction.”
    Rebecca Madison
  • “Before you can start trying to change the rules, you have to learn what the rules are.”
    David
  • “Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.”
    Samantha Madison
  • “I didn't wear black. I didn't even want to wear black. I didn't care what I wore. When you are in love, that's how it is. You don't care about things like clothes, because all you can think about is the object of your affections.”
    Samantha Madison
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  • “Ah, I see that the seed I planted about the frisson has germinated and produced a fragile, flowering bud.”
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  • that geeks make the best boyfriends. It sounds surprising, but it is true. You know those smiles of David’s, the little secret ones he always seemed to have on his face? Those smiles, he says, are on account of me.
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  • And the number-one reason I’m glad I’m not Gwen Stefani:   1. Because then I wouldn’t be me.
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  • we lefties just give up the struggle and croak rather than try one last time to write something in a spiral-bound notebook with all those wires poking into our wrist.
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  • And that was that David loved me. He loved me. He loved me. He loved me.
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  • There’s this theory that most lefties actually started out as one in a pair of twins. One out of every ten pregnancies starts out as twins. One out of every ten people is left-handed.
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  • Lucy took a deep breath. Then she let it out and said, “You love him.”
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  • Middle child (a.k.a. me): Lost in the shuffle. Never gets what she wants. Kid most likely to end up a teen runaway, living on leftover Big Macs scrounged from Dumpsters behind the local McDonald’s for weeks before anyone even notices she is gone.
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  • I am a middle child. Middle children die sooner than their older and younger siblings due to being routinely ignored. I have never seen documented proof of this, but I am sure it is true. It is a story just waiting to be busted wide open by 60 Minutes, or whatever.
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  • It turns out if you jump onto the back of a would-be assassin, and he isn’t expecting you to or anything, you can really throw off his aim.
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First Sentence edit see section history

She says she didn't mean to.

Table of Contents edit see section history

There are twenty-six unnamed chapters.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 2 in All-American Girl. (standard series)

Followed by Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Meg Cabot (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Lizzy Bromley (Designer)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0060294698
Page Count: 256

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Many sexual references and other objectionable content.

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