Downtown Boy

By Laura Battanyi-Petose

Secure and protected, suburban girl Alex learns much about the real world when she begins volunteer work at a daycare center, where she meets Russell, an unpredictable and irresistible boy from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061061549
• ISBN13: 9780061061547
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A charmingly modern and unexpected effort.

For a young romance novel, I must say that "Downtown Boy", by Laura Battanyi-Petose, is a fairly well-done representation of the genre. Nice, suburban girl meets "dangerous" downtown boy and sparks immediately fly. Yet, the real charm of the story is not merely the teenage romance, but rather the evolving relationships between the heroine and her mother, her best friend, and her babysitting client as a result of her new and different "Downtown Boy". Another good point of the book is its references to current popular music; Battanyi-Petose will certainly score big with young readers of current popular culture