The Book Depository The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E Lockhart
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Description: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks : Paperback : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers : 9780786838196 : 0786838191 : 25 Aug 2009 : The acclaimed author of Dramarama and The Boy Book now delivers a story about a girl who goes from being mildly geeky to a teenage knockout to. a criminal mastermind?. The Book Depository The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E Lockhart - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780786838196
MPN: 0786838191
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Author: S. Marsden
Rating: 5
Review: The bastard child of Attwood's `Handmaid's Tale' and the `Chalet School' series. Elements of mystery and adventure stories, mixed with a healthy dose of feminist reality pervade this teenage fable set in an exclusive American private school with a boys-only secret society at its heart. Tired of being excluded from the inner workings of her new boyfriend's clique of alpha males, Frankie Landau-Banks succeeds in piercing their veil of secrecy and begins to shake things up for the staff and students at Alabaster Prep. Lockhart's triumph is in having Frankie undo the corset of expectations, the gamut of aspirations and constraints that family, friends and communities lace women and girls up in, and demolish it eagerly. Frankie herself is not a self-conscious feminist, but rather a postmodern feminist faced with a less-than-modern boy's club. Writing in deceptively accessible English, Lockhart relates a carefully subversive story that most teachers couldn't justify confiscating- but it might just start a revolution if the right people read it.The book's themes mean it is probably most appropriate for women and girls aged 12+, although it will probably speak more to those with life experience on their side, not least because of the wry, witty commentary from the book's 'narrator',who I strongly suspect is in fact an older Frankie. With that in mind, I hope to see further instalments documenting her career and time at college emerge in years to come.
Author: Novel Resources
Rating: 3
Review: A unique novel about a determined girl who refuses to accept that girls cannot be a part of a secret school pranking society that her father was part of. Lockhart's novels are so different to each other and this one is fantastically distinct in it's humour, positive female role model and humour.