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About Cynthia Voigt
See more books from this AuthorFresh from their debut (Bad Girls, 1996), sixth-graders Mikey and Margalo cement their gloriously improbable friendship in a painful--sometimes side-splitting--effort to save Mikey's parents' marriage.
| Read Full Review of Bad Girls.” The plot meanders somewhat from scheme to scheme—one plan involves getting Mikey on the tennis team by petitioning to allow seventh-graders on the basketball team—but what drives the story is the growing tension between the two best friends as Margalo quietly courts popularity while trying to ...
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsBoth are bright, tough, acerbic, and fond of stirring things up, but their differences really spark the relationship: Mike), is public and aggressive, willing to punch the class bully in the nose or dye her hair green, while Margalo prefers to start damaging rumors or slip a dead squirrel into a ...
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsMikey and Margalo, the redoubtable Bad Girls, are back for ninth grade and a new set of conflicts with both peers and authority figures.
| Read Full Review of Bad Girls""Rarely are heroines so charismatic"" as Mikey and Margalo, said PW of this sequel to Bad Girls.
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsIn the third novel about Mikey and Margalo, heroines of Bad Girls and Bad, Badder, Baddest, Newbery Medalist Voigt demonstrates that, indeed, it's not easy being bad: Mikey and Margalo, now in junior high, are working overtime at their schemes and plots and machinations.
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsThis time she concentrates on domestic dramas, chiefly the breakup of Mikey's parents' marriage and heroines Mikey and Margalo's carefully laid schemes to keep Mikey's family together.
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsIn Bad Girls in Love, the latest entry in her Bad Girls series, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt revisits the world of junior high, here exploring the experience of falling in love for the first time.
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsIn a starred review, PW called this comedy about two troublemaking fifth graders who question authority ""tart, subversive and wholly entertaining."" Ages 10-up.
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsIn this latest entry of the Bad Girls series, Voigt revisits the world of junior high, here exploring the experience of falling in love for the first time.
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsIf Thelma and Louise had met in fifth grade they might have taken lessons in bravado from Mikey and Margalo, the heroines of this tart, subversive and wholly entertaining comedy.
| Read Full Review of Bad GirlsOutsiders Margalo and Mikey, stars of BAD GIRLS, are now in junior high and they're determined to shed their "bad" image and become the most popular girls in seventh grade.
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of Bad GirlsAn aggregated and normalized score based on 14 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes