Flirt Club - by Cathleen Daly (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Told entirely through notes passed in school, diary entries, and the occasional e-mail, Cathleen Daly's Flirt Club is a hilarious and touching tween novel about love and lust with a heart, a brain, and a whole lot more.

Isabelle and Annie are two self-professed middle-school drama geeks who have no idea how to flirt with boys--successfully. Their sweet, awkward, and painful attempts at romance are getting them nowhere, so they start Flirt Club, an after-school support group for similarly afflicted friends who decide to take decisive and strategic action.

Review Quotes

"Oh the trauma of first kisses, crushes and co-ed convos. Izzy and Annie lose their ability to speak around boys. So they start Flirt Club, a secret society of equally distressed buds to help each other out, landing some hilarious and touching results." --Girls' Life

"Told through very funny notes to each other, journal entries, and minutes from Flirt Club meetings, Daly's debut sparkles with wit, and her protagonists brim with enthusiasm and heart." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Told through a series of notes, journal entries, and minutes from Flirt Club meetings, Daly's tale of the (mis)adventures of a pair of self-professed drama dorks is a warm and funny portrait of the ups and downs of middle school life." --The Horn Book

"The girls' friendships are authentic and the situations are definitely on target for middle schoolers." --School Library Journal

"With a pleasing blend of genuine warmth and witty banter, Daly gets the tone just right as she offers up a nice counterbalance to the typical mean-girl story, focusing more on the candid affection between Annie and Izzy than on junior-high dramatics." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Told through the girls' locker notes, lists, and journal entries, this entertaining read features peppy prose, humor, and on-target issues, such as dealing with insecurities, heartbreak, mean girls, and physical-relationship pressures." --Booklist

"Just the ticket for preadolescent girls." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Cathleen Daly is a writer and perfomance artist who lives in the Bay Area outside San Francisco.