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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316091121
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Publication date: 9/11/2012
  • Series: Belles Series , #1
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 234,608
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Jen Calonita
Jen Calonita

Over the past eight years, as a Senior Editor at Teen People and a journalist for Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, and Marie Claire, Jen Calonita has interviewed everyone from Lindsay Lohan to Ashton Kutcher.

Jen's third novel, Secrets of My Hollywood Life: Family Affair, pubs in May 2008 and she is currently working on a new hardcover novel about teen girls at summer camp, Sleepaway Girls, coming in May 2009, as well as a fifth Secrets novel, coming May 2010.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 8, 2012

    Teenbooks101

    This book is amazing! I love Jen Calonita and the secrets of my hollywood life series. I love how you can relate to Izzie and how good a friend Brayden is to her. Mira and Izzie have nothing in common which makes the book really good. I cant wait for book 2 to come out! Jens writing is really good and relatable. If you like girly drama you will LOVE this book! If you haven't already, make sure you read sleepaway girls, reality check, and secrets of my hollywood life series!

    LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!! A must read

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 26, 2012

    Highly Recommended

    Such a cute book with such a heart-warming story. I love Jen Calonita's books, and I am looking forward to the possibility of a sequel. Great read for teens!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 2, 2012

    Anonymous

    If you are looking for a real good book, this is it. This book is definitly worth the money and will not leave you disappointed! It just lures you into reading from the first chapter, and with each new conflict in every chapter, I could not put it down! It was one of the few well written and heart-warming stories I've recently read. Positivly a must!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 15, 2012

    I was very disappointed with this book. The characters had very

    I was very disappointed with this book. The characters had very little depth. The whole story was ridiculous, it had one of those schools that were so rich the cafeterias serve lobster. Most characters were incredibly superficial and annoying. I feel like the author also didn't know who her audience was. It was about kids ages 15-16 but the topics discussed were appropriate for a 6th grader. I didn't even understand the "plot twist" at the end for awhile. The book ends very abruptly. Even though it is a cliffhanger, there is little sense of closure. It reminds me of a Pretty Little Liars/Watered-down Mean Girls in the South.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 12, 2013

    Jen Calonita builds a beautiful rags to riches story with her no

    Jen Calonita builds a beautiful rags to riches story with her novel, Belles.  This was a surprisingly good read!  What a great coming of age story about a high schooler, Isabelle Scott (Iz or Izzie for short) who grows up on the wrong side of the tracks and suddenly finds herself thrown into the life of the rich and elite of Emerald Cove (EC) after her grandma and legal guardian takes a turn for the worse.  

    Fitting  in and maneuvering the EC social structures in this town are harder than taking care of her ailing grandmother, working as a beach lifeguard, keeping her grades up, paying the bills, buying groceries and maintaining her status of star swimmer...Will she be able to climb the social ladder?  Will she make friends?  What about the summer fling that suddenly turns up at her new school and is in the arms of the one girl who she despises? 

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 28, 2013

    Omg

    Vannah is so meaaaaan!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 10, 2013

    Cute

    Lovely story

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 9, 2013

    #1book

    Such a great book.i garentee you will fall in love with izzi scott right away.it is a thrilling book full of so many mixed emotions ronance funny and more i think everyone will enjoy belles especily jen calonita fans.if you are in love with the first book you shoul read the second book winter white whicch if full of a lot if mixed emotiobs and twists and turns. Ii cant wait to read the grass is always greener the third book. Im sure it will be just as great.enjoy!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 4, 2013

    Kept me interested

    I liked this book. It kept me interested. It was a little cheesy at times but overall it was a good read. I'll definately read the next book in this seris!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 31, 2013

    Kate

    Party at christian 0.00!!!!

    0 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 30, 2013

    Kay

    Wacthing tv

    0 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 30, 2013

    Britany-Eric

    I honestly dnt knw..i guess..jus b urself i dnt lie bout who u r..the true u

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 30, 2013

    Tia

    Haha ok i will. Wait so ur name is eric right? Haha not thomas

    0 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 22, 2013

    Great!!

    This bookwas very well written. I was sucked in right away eith this clever storyline!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 20, 2013

    Brilliant!

    Such a touching story! Belles is not your typical unpopular-girl-opressed-by-popular-girls-and-falls-for-the-hottest-guy story. I would highly recommend it to any age group. Could not put it down till the end!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2013

    Belles

    This book is very good. Once you start reading you wont't want to put it down. When I started reading it wasn't sure if i would like it, but when you get deeper in you will love it. Thwy have two girls (Mira and Izzie) telling the story. They grew up in very diffrent places and don't quite understand eachothers back grounds. But the there is a mean girl factor (Savanah) and changes the whole thing! Plus they are both finding stuff out about themselves. Then at the very end the earth-shattering secret is revealed!! Will the girla figure out whatto do? Will they ever get aling? Will Savanah ever cclearrnt toz

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2013

    Yes

    Cars are cool

    0 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2013

    Belles is a wonderful book. The characters were relateable and i

    Belles is a wonderful book. The characters were relateable and interesting. Their problems were real and the author has a way of making the reader feel what the characters feel. I liked the way that Izzie and Mira grew as the book progressed and the way they dealt with their problems. 
    Izzie was a strong character that knew what she wanted. I loved that she stood up for what she believed in and stood up for herself and her hometown of Harbor Side. Emerald Cove was a very different place for her to live in, but Izzie loved her hometown and missed her beloved grandmother very much. As she tried to fit in, she tried to help her hometown.
    Mira was slightly sefish at first. She only seemed to care about her popular friends and her boyfriend tat she didnt truly love, dresses and shopping, and going to fancy parties. As the story went on, Mira learned many things from Izzie, including the fact that some things are more im
    rtant than shopping and being popular. As Mira started to stand up for herself and what she really wanted I began to like her mre. 
    Brayden and Kellen are both great guys who helped the girls realize what they wanted, an Hayden was a really good brother that helped Izzie.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 26, 2013

    Good

    And amazing

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2013

    Yessss

    Omg this book is amazinngggg! :)

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