April 28, 2009

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks by E. Lockhart

Frankie Landau Banks is starting her sophomore year at Alabaster prep school. She has physically matured over the summer and is excited to return better looking and out from her family nickname of "Bunny Rabbit." She almost immediately starts dating one of the hottest seniors at school, Matthew Livingston, who claims he doesn't remember her even though her older sister introduced them several times the previous year. She loves being his girlfriend but knows that he and his friend Alpha are hiding something from her. She soon finds out the secret that they are part of The Bassets, a secret all male society on campus. Frankie becomes determined to show Matthew, without him knowing, that she has the brains to pull off pranks just like the boys of The Bassets. She starts secretly plotting all their pranks without Matthew's knowledge.
Frankie is a great character. She is mischievous without being destructive and puts a lot of thought into her pranks. I did want to tell her that she needed to dump Matthew since he didn't treat her like an equal, but that was a key part to her mentally maturing through the book. I enjoyed this book thoroughly and would recommend it to girls in middle school and early high school.

Posted by Lisa at April 28, 2009 6:19 PM