Sweet 16

By Kate Brian

Book Overview

Teagan Phillips is obnoxiously rich, obnoxiously fashionable, and, this year, she's obnoxiously turning sixteen. No one's sweet sixteen party will be as glitzy, glamorous, decadent, and, well, obnoxious as Teagan's sweet sixteen party. She might single-handedly take thesweetout of sweet sixteen. In typical fashion, nothing is quite right for Teagan on the night of her sweet sixteen party. When a slew of unfortunate events unfold at what was supposed to be the sweet sixteen event of the century, she hits rock bottom, literally, by falling down the stairs into the wine cellar. When she comes to, a strange woman is standing over her. What happens next will bring Teagan back in time to when she was a sweet little girl with two parents, before her mother died and her father threw himself into his work. She'll be forced to face the choices she made that led her to be the person she is on her sixteenth birthday. And with the help of her fairy godmother (or whoever the heck the creepy woman in white is), this will be the sweetest of all sixteens.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416900322
• ISBN13: 9781416900320
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

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This book taught me a lot about life. It's about a snobby teenager that wants to have even more than she has. And beleive me she has a lot. Kate Brian is now 1 of my 3 favorite authors and I can't wait until sh writes another book like this one.

A Point

Teagen Phillips is a rich teenager that thinks that this will be the best party of the century. But what Teagan finds out is not what she expects! When trying to get wine from a cellar after she found out that her dad cancelled all alcohol from her party, she falls down the stairs and she is dead. When a strange woman in white appears above teagan when she is awoken she gets to look at few things she wasn't expecting. She finds out that her best friend and her boyfriend were secretly making love behind her back,and she is forced to find out what her future holds.When Teagen finds out what her future holds she is given a second chance to change things before she experiances an early death from cosmetic surgery. And her life was coming better by the time she awoken!

Amazing Book

I love this book. This book is amazing and I never wanted to put it down. Kate Brian did an amazing job.

amazing

it was a great book and an easy read. It teaches you a lesson while also keeping it interesting. I would totaly recommend this book.

An amazing novel that will truly give readers a better outlook on life - and how they are viewed by

Teagan Phillips may be known as the epitome of the perfect girl. However, she is also viewed by her classmates and neighbors as being not only obnoxiously rich, but obnoxiously pretty, fashionable, and smart. And this year, Teagan's obnoxious level is only going to increase, thanks to the fact that she is turning 16, and planning a Sweet 16 party that will blow every other Sweet 16 party out of the water, and make her the most talked-about girl for years to come. As the night of Teagan's Sweet 16 approaches, nothing works out for the Princess. And, within a short amount of time, a series of unfortunate events - spilled food, no alcohol, matching dresses, identical shoes, backstabbing friends, and more - take place, leading Teagan on a hunt for booze that leaves her lying on the concrete floor of a wine cellar - out cold. When she finally awakens, Teagan finds herself face to face with a strange woman. A strange woman who possesses a slew of powers, that take the spoiled, ungrateful, nasty Teagan back in time, to when she was the innocent little girl who was the apple of her father, and - deceased - mother's eye. A time before her father started ignoring her, by throwing himself into his work. It is during this time that Teagan must truly observe the error of her ways, and make a huge change - one that should have been made much sooner than this Sweet 16. Kate Brian is one of the most imaginative teen fiction writers out there at the moment; and her imagination truly flourishes within the pages of her newest novel SWEET 16. SWEET 16 combines the elements of MTV's hit TV show MY SUPER SWEET 16, with Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, in an attempt to create a magical tale of adventure and gossip, that takes one very ungrateful teenage girl on the thrill ride of her life. Teagan is the girl you love to hate, whose life seems picture-perfect and fabulous by outward appearances, but is truly unstable - at least according to her - once you penetrate the bubble. Her attitude will make readers want to hate her, but the sadness she experiences each day of her life, in memories of her mother, truly make you want to embrace her. Kate Brian has created an extremely enjoyable, heartfelt novel, that leaves room for a sequel; and, with the outcome of SWEET 16, readers will be more than happy to read more of Teagan's story in the future. An amazing novel that will truly give readers a better outlook on life - and how they are viewed by others. Erika Sorocco Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper