How to Kiss a Guy

by Elizabeth Bernard

Book Overview

Determined to shed her serious, shy reputation, Naomi Peters auditions for the starring role in her high school's production of "Beauty and the Beast"--and gets it! Acting brings out a side of Naomi... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553566628
• ISBN13: 9780553566628
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

The best LoveStories book ever written

I've read dozens of the LoveStories series, ever since I was a very young teen, and this one remains my absolute favorite. The first time I read it, I stayed up until four am until I had finished it, and it positively gave me tingles. I'm in college now, but still every time I read it (often!), I feel the same way. The characters of Dylan and Naomi have stuck with me for a long time. It was romantic, funny, and had a good plot-- I loved everything about the play they were doing. I have to admit, though I like them, the LoveStories books usually have a thin plot with only semi-memorable characters, but this book goes above and beyond the cliched teen romance. (Personally, I think it deserves a better title than How to Kiss A Guy, but I guess I can overlook that.) Way to go, Elizabeth Bernard!! I'm a fan for life!

Very Romantic!

I really loved this book. I read it in one day! Out of all the Love Story books I have read, this one was the best! I really liked the way Naomi and Dylan, went from freinds, lovers, enimies, and back to lovers again. It really was like Beauty and the Beast. :)Elizabeth Bernard, Great Book!

Being who you want to be is hard.

I love How to Kiss a Guy. Naomi feels stuck. Everyone has her life planned out for her. But she's not sure anymore the life her friends expect her to live or that her parents want for her is what she wahts. She wants to be herself, whoever that is. She meets Dylan when she tries out for a play. Everyone she knows, her friends, her parents can't understand why she wants to be in a play, and why she likes a guy who rides a motorcycle. They act like she is becoming a bad girl. The title of the book makes it sound like a different kind of story than it is. Dylan and Naomi do kiss each other, a lot. But what I like about this book is how Naomi learns to stick up for herself, for what she wants and believes, no matter what anyone around her says or does or thinks.

Excellent Lesson Learned

Author portrays an often occurring problem, lying. Naomi Peters finds her world falling apart from all of her sneaking around and lying. Her grades are falling, her friends do not like who she has become, and her parents feel left out of her life. Finally she realizes the pain she has inflicted on some many people she cares about. After realizing how severe her life has turned upside down, she decides to come clean. I think this book is a good learning tool for teenagers today. Truth prevails