Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

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Kate Brian

When she was nine, Megan Meade met a group of terrible, mean, Popsicle-goo-covered boys, the sons of her father's friend -- the McGowan boys. Now, seven years later, Megan's army doctor parents are shipping off to Korea and Megan is being sent to live with the little monsters, who are older now and quite different than she remembered them. Living in a house with seven boys will give Megan, who has never even been kissed, the perfect opportunity to learn everything there is to know about boys. And she'll send all her notes to her best friend, Tracy, in... Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Observation #1: Being an army brat sucks. Except that this is definitely a better alternative to moving to Korea. Observation #2: Forget evil, laughing, little monsters. These guys have been touched by the Abercrombie gods. They are a blur of toned, suntanned perfection. Observation #3: I need a lock on my door. STAT. Observation #4: Three words: six-pack abs. Observation #5: Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a hazmat team. Seriously. Observation #6: These boys know how to make enemies. Big time. Megan Meade will have to juggle a new school, a new family, a new crush -- on the boy next door, as in next bedroom door -- and a new life. Will she survive the McGowan boys?

Comedy

Young Adult

Teen Romance

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Author

Kate Brian

Pages

288

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

2008-06-23

ISBN

1439107688 9781439107683

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"The is one of my favorite books! I just loved the storyline. Haven’t read it in ages!! "

Cat

"Is this book worth reading? Heard it was like the summer I turned pretty, is this true?"

Hope

"not sure about to fine out"

Samantha Crespin

"this book was amazing! so sad there wasn’t a second one! 😢"

Madeleine Scherzer

"What I Liked: 1. The McGowan Family - in general the McGowan family seemed really nice and supportive of one another. I love that they took Megan in and tried hard to make her feel at home. 2. Megan playing soccer - I liked that there was a big part of the story that had nothing to do with the boys and was just about Megan. Her playing soccer, making her own friends, and finding her place through the soccer team was interesting. What I Didn’t Like: 1. Love triangle-ish? - even though Evan has a girlfriend, you can tell that he’s at least attracted to Megan. I feel like he caused his own problems by being all hot and cold with Megan and Hailey. If he didn’t, Hailey wouldn’t have caused all the trouble she caused. And then Megan flip flopping back and forth between Evan and Finn was annoying. 2. Megan’s Character Development - she started off saying she was shy and never stood up for herself and as soon as she moves in with the McGowan family, she’s standing up for herself and being direct/confronting everyone pretty much immediately, which makes it hard to believe. 3. Megan’s interactions with the rest of the family - I feel like all interactions Megan had with the McGowan family felt forced/fake. She was like immediately perfect with Miller after googling Asperger’s/autism, which is not how it works. She covers for Doug and prevents him from getting suspended from school and then he doesn’t even thank her and just moved on. 4. Doug - I really didn’t like him. He slept with Evan’s girlfriend which is messed up. And his fake wannabe gangster accent is annoying. 5. The pacing of the story - the part that’s the most insane to me is that all of this happens within the first line month or so that Megan is there. Maybe less? And to me that’s wild. This would have felt more realistic if this took place over the span of the first semester or something. But the fact that all of this was in the first few weeks of school was just too much"