March 24, 2008
This is my first tour with Girlfriends Cyber Circuit and I’m so thrilled to be touring E Lockhart’s The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. It’s an amazing book and has had some fabulous reviews, as you’ll see below.
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:
Debate Club.
Her father’s “bunny rabbit.”
A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure.
A sharp tongue.
A chip on her shoulder.
And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.
Frankie Laundau-Banks.
No longer the kind of girl to take “no” for an answer.
Especially when “no” means she’s excluded from her boyfriend’s all-male secret society.
Not when her ex boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places.
Not when she knows she’s smarter than any of them.
When she knows Matthew’s lying to her.
And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.
Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:
Possibly a criminal mastermind.
This is the story of how she got that way.
“Big ideas are an essential part of the fun in this sparkling tour de force…. Lockhart (Dramarama; The Boyfriend List) dexterously juggles a number of smart and tantalizing themes—class and privilege, feminism and romance, wordplay and thought, friendship and loyalty—and combines the pacing of a mystery with writing that realizes settings and characters, large and small, with an artist’s sure hand….An exuberant, mischievous story, it scores its points memorably and lastingly.”
– Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Lockhart has transcended the chick-lit genre… A funny feminist manifesto that will delight the anti–Gossip Girl gang.”
– Kirkus, starred review
“An empowered female hero like Frankie is a rare and refreshing find. She is the ultimate feminist role model for teens: a girl with guts and imagination who’s brave enough to take on the “old boy’s club.”
– School Library Journal, starred review
“Lockhart fashions a thoroughly enjoyable tale of a good girl who aches to be bad….Fans will applaud at the conclusion as Frankie strides into the sunset, metaphorically bloody but unbowed.”
– VOYA
“Lockhart’s wholly engaging narrative, filled with wordplay, often reads like a clever satire about the capers about the entitled, interwoven with elements of a mystery. But the story’s expertly timed comedy also has deep undercurrents. Lockhart creates a unique, indelible character in Frankie, whose oddities only make her more realistic, and teens will be galvanized by her brazen action and her passionate, immediate questions about gender and power, individuals and institutions, and how to fall in love without losing herself.”
– Booklist, starred review
Bio:
E. Lockhart is the author of The Boyfriend List and its sequel, The Boy Book; Fly on the Wall; Dramarama; and the upcoming How to Be Bad, co-written with Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski. In stores March 25th is The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. Visit her on the web at www.theboyfriendlist.com — and soon (once the new web design is finished) at www.e-lockhart.com.
Posted by Sara Hantz in Uncategorized @ 9:08 pm
Jessica Burkhart Says:
Sounds soo good! I love the GCC!
Alyssa Goodnight Says:
This book looks awesome! I’ll definitely be picking it up–thanks for the head’s up and CONGRATULATIONS on getting on ‘The List’