Who's That Girl
3.5/5
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This laugh-out-loud debut is filled with hilarious awkward encounters, a supportive LGBTQ organization, and too many cheesy lyrics to count—all with the compulsive readability of Audrey, Wait! and Boy Meets Boy.
Junior Nattie McCullough has always been that under-the-radar straight girl who hangs out in the cafeteria with her gay-straight alliance friends. She’s never been the girl that gets the guy, let alone the girl that gets a hit song named after her.
But when last summer’s crush, smoking-hot musician Sebastian Delacroix—who has recently hit the mainstream big-time—returns home to play a local show, that’s just what she gets. He and his band, the Young Lungs, have written a chart-topping single—“Natalie”—which instantly makes Nattie second guess everything she thought about their awkward non-kiss at that June pool party. That it was horrific. That it meant nothing. That Sebastian never gave her another thought.
To help keep her mind off of Sebastian and his maybe-about-her, maybe-not-about-her song, Nattie throws herself into planning the school’s LGBTQIA dance. That proves problematic, too, when Nattie begins to develop feelings for her good friend Zach. With the song getting major airplay and her once-normal life starting to resemble the cover of a gossip magazine, Nattie is determined to figure out once and for all if her brief moment with Sebastian was the stuff love songs are made of—or just a one-hit wonder.
Blair Thornburgh
Blair Thornburgh is the author of several books for kids and teens. Her first novel, Who’s That Girl, was named a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. Ordinary Girls was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 for teens as well as an ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth. A graduate of the University of Chicago and of Hamline University’s MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, she lives outside of Philadelphia (in real life) and at www.blairthornburgh.com (online).
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Reviews for Who's That Girl
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5teen fiction (unwanted fame in high school romantic triangle crushes, a lack of communication all around makes things confusing and difficult for everyone). In the interest of diversity and portraying the lives of real teens, I liked the queer-friendly prom subplot and the best friend's coming out to her parents. Getting introduced to all of the characters and their personalities (2 zachs) was a little tedious (for someone that doesn't remember names or characters very well), but once established I enjoyed the story and the character interactions.
Parental notes: There's at least one "dammit" in here but I don't remember any f-bombs. Teens sneak off to New York without telling parents and get drunk, but thankfully escape other potential dangers. One boy doesn't kiss Nattie when she is unable to give consent (she tells him "I don't know," thereby dooming both to years of misery afterwards when actually they both do like each other); the other boy sets off a dangerous allergic reaction when he kisses her without consent (and the remnants of a strawberry pop-tart in his spit). Aside from the kissing there aren't any makeout sessions (or anything further than that), though it is intimated that one of the characters is out seducing another girl while Nattie is waiting to talk to him. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Adorably adorable, predictably predictable but also had me chuckling multiple times. Fun characters. A great debut but doesn't add anything to YA genre for me.