I also liked how Melissa Kantor inserted the controversial issue of race in high school and how she tackled it dead on in the end. She claims that it takes such a long time to go from “heartache to happiness”.

Jennifer clings to Max for what seems like forever and that’s what it actually feels like for her. She can also be relatable for those girls who ever felt like they can never let go of the ones who dumped them. The way she narrates the story can hold your attention because she’s funny, real, smart and deep. Well, I thought this book was really good. Is there a Web site called ? If so, this moment deserved to be the home page. And Jennifer discovers there just might be life after heartbreak. īut as spring semester rolls around, and Jen finds herself on the trail of a controversial feature story, she starts to see Max - and herself - in a whole new light.

In fact, she’s sure there’s been a mistake - she and Max aren’t really.

And when her grandmother gives her The Breakup Bible, a self-help book that claims its “commandments” can make her “the happiest dumpee on the block,” Jen is convinced that the humiliation of heartbreak might actually be fatal. Shocked, Jen can’t imagine how she’s supposed to get out of bed every morning much less face Max across a conference table at meetings for The Hillsdale High Spectator. Then, out of nowhere, Max casually tells Jennifer that maybe “it would be better if we were just friends,” and the world comes to a screeching halt. High school junior Jennifer Lewis has it all: amazing friends, a coveted editorial position on the school newspaper, and the perfect relationship with senior Max Brown, her editor in chief and the boy of her dreams.

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If you want a nice book to read, I recommend this book. This was the first book by Melissa Kantor that I have read, and it made me want to read more. Despite the bubblegum-pink color or the cover, this novel was slightly serious. This was one of the books that got me out of one of my reading lulls. Emerson's The Breakup Bible claims that 'there's no reason a woman can't get over a breakup very quickly if she'll just follow a few basic commandments.' Jen is doubtful. Her misery only intensifies when her grandmother gives her a book that she heard about on the radio. Everything is perfect-that is, until Max says, 'Maybe it would be better if we were just friends.' In shock and total denial, Jen wonders how she is going to deal with the pain of seeing Max in school every day. She is the features editor of the school paper, and she's dating Max Brown, the paper's editor-in-chief. I just randomely picked it off of my libraries shelf, and I loved it.

The breakup bible by melissa kantor