My Best Enemy

by Janet Quin-Harkin

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553265679
• ISBN13: 9780553265675
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Teen tennis stars find love in the Outback

Fun and adventure abound in "My Best Enemy", a captivating tale about gaining the independence and self confidence needed to stand up for oneself. The story opens on discontent tennis star Vicky Wilding who, at the request of her overbearing coach, agrees to travel to Australia to compete in the pro circuit, along with her mother and bratty, but adorable younger sister. Despite suffering some unsavory run-ins with the Australian media, being paired up to play doubles with notoriously bad-tempered tennis rebel Scott Cameron, and even becoming lost on a harrowing journey through the Australian bush, Vicky eventually learns to come to terms with the pressures and rewards of competitive tennis stardom, while learning to open herself up to the possibility of romance. Aided heftily by its exotic locale and out of the ordinary subject matter, the novel overcomes its lack of realism with interesting characters and a memorable climactic scene.

Ice princess meets spoiled brat.

Two troubled teens are thrown together in a "doubles" tennis tournament in Australia. Right from the moment their paths cross, it is hate. They can't spend a minute together without losing their tempers. Can they leave their defenses down long enough to become friends (or more)? Cute story about ambition and young love in the competitive world of tennis