The Boy Next Door

by Janet Quin-Harkin

Book Overview

Amber is torn between friends in New York and her new home with her family in Wyoming. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553566636
• ISBN13: 9780553566635
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Boy got Frog in girl's hair.

This, book is a great love story. Amber, has to make a tough decision, to stay with family in Wyoming or go back to her home in NYC. People who would enjoy this, are people who ever been caught in between what they thought they wanted (New York City) or Happiness and love that they already have (Wyoming). Amber does a lot of growing up and making the right choice is easier when the boy next door put the frog on your head because he couldn't tell you that he liked you.

Cowboys can be romantic!!!!!!

AMber is petrified when she finds out that she is moving to Wyoming from New York. She has just found this wonderful guy and it is all good. But then she has to move to hickstown. She just knows she is going to have a miserable time. Her dad tell her that if she can stick it out for a year and is still unhappy then she can go back t New York. SO AMber says that she can act misetrable for a year. When she moves there she meets her next dor neighbor RIch ad falls in love. But what is she going to do when her wonderful boyfriend form new york comes to visit. WIll she pick the cowboy or the city boy. Read the book to find out what happens

Extraordinary!

This remarkable book is sure to leave youre head in the clouds-day dreaming. Why can't I have a deliciously cute and (actually) caring guy kissing the ground I walk on, but still keeping his pride? Amber Stevens is a (I have to say) spoiled brat. Her life in NY is finaly coming together and one of the most popular guy is interested in her and they really hit it off. Then her parents spring a surprising plan to move to Wyoming to restore their family. She's sick with anger and keeps a grudge against Wyopming and everyone in it. There isn't even a movie theater in and hours range! Her dad and her agree on a deal that if Amber is still miserable in a year then she will be allowed to move back to NY. Wyoming is a completely different atmosphere from her once busy city life. Everyone's values here are so much deeper and Amber turns in her snotty spoiled city girl attitude for a sweet and funny personality she knew was always underneath everything. Then she meets rugged Rich Winter who helps her out with chores and they begin to fall in love. . . I can't begin to tell you how you will be hopping up and down in your seat with excitement over this superb book. Lookin' for a good book that you will read over and over again like I have? Yes, then this is defiantly the right book for you. Sweet Dreams. . .

The Boy Next Door

I absolutely loved this book! I found it very easy to relate to the characters and loved the way Amber totally changed her perspective! The sequel is really good too! It's #38 Torn Apart

Warm -

It might seem like a really cheap story - like , big deal..she has to choose between two guys..but it's not.It's so much more than that.She's such a self-involved brat at the start, but after a while at Wyoming , she's really real and tough - totally without pretensions and you just want her relationship with Rich to last forever for them to get married and grow old together and everything.The ending got me smiling.The continuation - Torn Apart is just as great.I wish the author would come up with a new story about Amber and Rich every once in a while

A Great Book

This book is one of the best i've read. It's realistic and the decicions Amber has to face is what alot of girls have to face: Between two guys. If you haven't read this book, you don't know what you are missing.