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| AUTHOR: | Gordon Korman, Jim Colby |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Recorded Books |
| ISBN: | 1402570309 |
| TYPE: | Love & Romance, School & Education, Social Issues - General, Audio - Children's - Young Adult |
| MEDIA: | Audio Cassette |
| # OF MEDIA: | 3 |
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Customer Reviews of Jake, Reinvented
A terrible Remake! Jake, Reinvented was such a disappointment! For any Gatsby lovers, don't read this book! Maybe I'm biased, but I love Gatsby and this book was just a poorly done carbon copy of the classic. My school librarian told me this was a supposedly a modern Gatsby, but I don't think she knew that it's basically a rip-off of the original.
Jake, Reinvented
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> Jake Garrett's life is perfect. He has the most popular friends in F. Scott Fitzgerald High School, all the girls want to date him and he throws the biggest parties every Friday night! But, everything changes one night when things go a little too far at a party.
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>In Gordon Korman's realistic fiction novel, Jake, Reinvented, it tells a story about how someone who has so much can lose it all in one night.
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>Korman tells the story of Jake through the eyes of Jake's friend and kicker for the football team, Rick. At first in the story, Jake is a mysterious new kid in school who is quickly admired, and then soon becomes the most popular kid in school next to Todd, the starting quarterback.
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>Before Jake comes along, Rick is best friends with Todd, but he quickly grows attached to Jake. But there is one problem: Jake only has eyes for one girl in school, Didi, Todd's girlfriend. Then, one night at a party, Jake and Didi are seen walking off together and Todd loses his cool which sparks a controversy that turns everything upside down!
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>I would recommend this book to anyone from seventh to ninth grade and for anyone who likes realistic fiction books with a big twist.
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Not a newage classic, but still a good read
Somewhere among "The Great Gatsby," "Can't Buy Me Love" and "The New Guy," the story of the one guy that cares about the outcome of the nerd gets lost in the perfect ending. "Jake, Reinvented" tells the story of the nerd turned cool from the best friend's perspective.
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>When Jake Garrett moves to town and becomes the king of all parties, the fashion plate for guys, the biggest thing in high school football since the plastic mouth-guard, people start looking for the catch. That is everyone but Rick Paradise. Rick just sees a guy trying to fit in and win over the prettiest girl in town.
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>But when a party gets out of hand and high school infidelity is brought to light, even Rick's friendship can't save Jake from the scrutiny of the masses.
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>While Korman re-tells an old high school Cinderella story from a new perspective, it lacks the usual humor and human insight of most of his books. The ending, however, is not your normal nerd fairytale ending. Life is not perfect and things never wrap up in neat little packages, but there is always a hope for things yet to come.