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Original Title:	Beautiful
ISBN:	1416978305 (ISBN13: 9781416978305)
Edition Language:	English

Beautiful Hardcover | Pages: 232 pages

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Title	:	Beautiful
Author	:	Amy Reed
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 232 pages
Published	:	October 6th 2009 by Simon Pulse (first published September 23rd 2009)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Contemporary. Realistic Fiction. Fiction

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When Cassie moves from the tiny town where she has always lived to a suburb of Seattle, she is determined to leave her boring, good-girl existence behind. This is Cassie’s chance to stop being invisible and become the kind of girl who’s worth noticing. Stepping into her new identity turns out to be easier than Cassie could have ever imagined… one moment, one choice, changes everything. Cassie’s new existence both thrills and terrifies her. Swept into a world of illicit parties and social landmines, she sheds her virginity, embraces the numbness she feels from the drugs, and floats through it all, knowing that she is now called beautiful. She ignores the dangers of her fast-paced life… but she can’t sidestep the secrets and the cruelty. Cassie is trapped in a swift downward spiral tinged with violence and abuse, and no one—not even the one person she thought she could trust—can help her now.

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What? Are you guys kidding me? Was I reading a different book from everyone else? Because I can't imagine what could possibly earn this piece of trash a four- or five-star review.I mean, I thought people were done writing things like this. It's so formulaic that it's laughable. An absentee father, a depressed alcoholic mother, a shy, ugly teenager who somehow gets reborn into a beautiful swan (although we never do learn how Cassie got that new face and body everyone keeps talking about) and sets

4.5 stars. This is a very powerful read that I wouldn't recommend to younger teens. There is a lot of very graphic language, sex, abuse, and drugs. Cassie is a 13-year old who is starting at a new school. She has no siblings, her mom drinks a lot and generally does nothing, and her dad is very absent. She decides that since she has now blossomed into a beautiful young girl the cool kids will of course accept her. The problem is that the "cool" kids at her new school are also the kids who sleep

I'm not usually a fan of the gritty "troubled teen" genre, but holy cow Amy Reed sucks you right into the life and mind of 13-year-old Cassie. And while I couldn't personally identify with the character and the situations she gets herself into, I couldn't help but feel a fatherly ache for the pain and numbness she puts herself through. In fact there were two very specific scenes involving Cassie's emotionally absent father that I actually felt myself choke up... which again, doesn't usually

Before moving to a small town outside of Seattle, Cassie had always been what most people would call a good kid. She had lived on an island called Bainbridge Island and she was invisible, living but not fully. She had fake friends, and did well in school because it was what was expected of her. For the first week or so at her new school as a seventh grader, it seemed like things were going to be exactly the same as when she went to school in Bainbridge. That all changed though when Alex, the

Although the book is classified as Young Adult fiction, anyone who has ever been a young adult can enjoy it. The toxic friendship between Cassie and Alex is something most girls have known all too well at some point in their lives and seeing it here on the page is both riveting and therapeutic. The author is just as adept at describing the more fulfilling, life-changing best friendship between Cassie and Sarah, that instant connection that feels almost like falling in love. Reed does such a

Although the book is classified as Young Adult fiction, anyone who has ever been a young adult can enjoy it. The toxic friendship between Cassie and Alex is something most girls have known all too well at some point in their lives and seeing it here on the page is both riveting and therapeutic. The author is just as adept at describing the more fulfilling, life-changing best friendship between Cassie and Sarah, that instant connection that feels almost like falling in love. Reed does such a

Wonderfully well-written, thougth provoking, raw and real. It threw me off at first that she was 13/in 7th grade. But then, I realized that while I would have written her older, the fact is, 13 year olds DO face these problems and take these actions, and once I settled into the story, I realized that the author made the right choice. I loved that both the mom and the dad were never 100% villains, neither were they perfect. The moment where she calls her dad from the pay phone, I think, was one