Parallel Parking

By Natalie Standiford

Book Overview

Three best friends. One school dance. Enough crushes, secrets, and parking cones to cause a full-on emotional pileup.

At Rosewood School for Alternative Gifted Education, Holly, Lina, and Mads run The Dating Game--the blog where everyone goes for love advice, secret crushes, and Missed Connections. But their own love lives? Total traffic jam.

Holly has caught the eye of Sean Benedetto, the school's gorgeous, impossible-to-ignore senior. Mads has been quietly obsessed with Sean forever--and she already has sweet, shy Stephen. Meanwhile, Lina is determined to find a boyfriend for sharp-tongued Goth poet Ramona, even if Ramona's dream admirer comes with khakis, a whale belt, and a very unfortunate hamster story.

Then there's driver's ed: terrifying crash films, disastrous three-point turns, and Mads versus the ultimate enemy--parallel parking. Can the friends survive the Happening dance, shifting loyalties, and kisses that definitely do not stay in the car?

A fizzy teen romance full of friendship drama, first-love chaos, school-dance sparkle, and laugh-out-loud mishaps. Readers who love Gossip Girl will find plenty to cheer for in Parallel Parking.

The Dating Game series:
The Dating Game
Breaking Up is Really, Really Hard to Do
Can True Love Survive High School?
Ex-Rating
Speed Dating
Parallel Parking

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316115312
• ISBN13: 9780316115315
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 13 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Courtesy of Teens Read Too

PARALLEL PARKING is the sixth book in the DATING GAME series. The whole series is funny and lighthearted. It's a great book to read if you feel like reading something that is not long and drug out and depressing. This book is the total opposite of that! Holly, Lina, and Madison are up to more mischief with their uber-popular website that they started as a school project. Holly and Madison have to take driver's education this semester so that they can get their driver's license. (Lina took it first semester.) Madison has major problems learning to parallel park, hence the title of the book. A new surprising couple hooks up. Hint: Think of friends and someone admired from afar. A school dance wraps up the book with two people dancing that you probably wouldn't suspect! I never saw it coming! Since this book is from a series, I will say this: don't read it until you have read the first five! I wouldn't want you to ruin a perfectly good book! Reviewed by: Taylor Rector