{"id":2735,"date":"2006-12-04T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:57","slug":"psst-r-u-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Psst! R U There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This book is a 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/dadtalk.typepad.com\/cybils\/2006\/10\/young_adult_nov.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cybil Award<\/a> Nominee for YA Fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maddie, Zoe and Angela are high school juniors now, and of course, be bff&#8217;s &#8212; best friends forever. But as the school year unfolds, a few things they hadn&#8217;t counted on how things like <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"547\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/10830000\/10834254.jpg\" width=\"250\" align=\"right\" \/>parents, distance &#8212; and the way people change, is throwing the trio for a loop. Angela&#8217;s Dad has been laid off, and he&#8217;s been interviewing on the sly&#8230; The biggest news to the Winsome Threesome is that Angela&#8217;s family is moving &#8212; to El Cerrito, California, all the way across the WORLD from Chicago! How is Angela supposed to be a part of the threesome if she&#8217;s gone?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Maddie&#8217;s life continues in the same vein &#8212; she drinks with her parents, macks on guys she meets only once, and parties away. For the first time, though, she&#8217;s making some decisions that aren&#8217;t quite as harmless as before. Zoe and Angela are worrying about her. Maddie&#8217;s guy-hopping lands her Clive, a guy she&#8217;s made out with and fallen for, but whose easy-going looseness is hard to get a grip on. Does he really like Maddie? Or is he just all about the whole pass-the-doobie, &#8216;friends with benefits&#8217; thing? Can Maddie ever get serious enough about herself to tell Clive how she feels? And what then?<\/p>\n<p>Awkward, late-blooming Zoe is falling in love for the first time with Doug &#8212; Doug the sweet poet who has had a crush on Angela for so long that everyone has sort of made a joke out of it, even Angela, who has NEVER had any interest. Zoe is thrilled &#8212; but scared. Now that Angela&#8217;s gone, she feels like she needs somebody to think of her with faithful longing &#8212; like her old flame, Doug&#8230; unfortunately, he&#8217;s &#8230; busy. With Zoe. And Zoe&#8217;s too freaked out to tell Angela the truth&#8230; which could ruin their friendship forever.<\/p>\n<p>In their abbreviated instant messages or in the ominous silences in between, Mad Maddie, SnowAngel and Zoegirl once again keep the conversation flowing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=0810942348\" target=\"_blank\">ttfn<\/a>, a mostly stand-alone sequel about three best friends who share everything &#8212; the smileys, the frownies, and the chatroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a 2006 Cybil Award Nominee for YA Fiction. Maddie, Zoe and Angela are high school juniors now, and of course, be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}