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The Friendship Matchmaker Goes Undercover (2012)

by Randa Abdel-Fattah(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Scholastic

series

The Friendship Matchmaker

review 1: Better than expected! Lara prides herself as a friendship matchmaker, choosing just the right friend for students in her school. She is so good she conducts workshops at lunch and is writing a manual. What we soon find out is that Lara doesn't have any friends herself. With her use of fun acronyms (LBC= loner by choice...) and rules, the story reads quickly. As she races to find a best friend for Tanya she begins to learn the truth about herself. This book could provide some good talking points in a classroom setting dealing with friend dynamics and social behavior.
review 2: Lara is the school's friendship matchmaker. She goes around pairing people based on common interests, much like a regular matchmaker would do. Because she is so busy with this work, she d... moreoesn't have time for friends of her own. But Lara's rules for friendship matchmaking often involving changing aspects of oneself and morphing into someone you're not. When Emily Wong moves to the school and starts questioning Lara's methods, Lara challenges her to a matchmaking contest. Each girl has to find a friend for someone on Lara's Total Loner list by the end of the month.This book was fairly predictable. At first I couldn't stand Lara. She was an annoying, condescending, know it all. But this changed as the story developed. I still didn't end up feeling sorry for her, but the reason she acts the way she does is revealed and understandable. It was a good light read. less

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