Play Me

by Laura Ruby

Overview

Eddy knows how to play the game of love.

He has all the tricks down cold, and his favorite girls are the ones with cherry lipstick and long legs in fishnets. They know he doesn’t make any promises.

But as graduation looms, the game begins to shift for Eddy. He never expected unattainable and perfect Lucinda Dulko to walk into his life. For the first time ever, Eddy’s not in control. To be with Lucinda, he has to play on her terms.

But what happens to a player when the rules suddenly change? Will Eddy find a way to win it all? Or will he get played?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061243295
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/06/2009
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	311
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Laura Ruby is the Michael L. Printz Award–winning author of many books for adults, teens, and children, including Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All and Bone Gap, both National Book Award finalists; the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection York: The Shadow Cipher and its sequels; the Edgar Award nominee Lily’s Ghosts; and the Book Sense Pick Good Girls. She is on the faculty of Hamline University’s MFA in writing for children and young adults program and lives in the Chicago area. You can visit her online at lauraruby.com.

Editorial Reviews

Guy lit with a brain and a heart, this has plenty to offer both romantics and cynics about love, film, and transformation.

Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Guy lit with a brain and a heart, this has plenty to offer both romantics and cynics about love, film, and transformation.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Guy lit with a brain and a heart, this has plenty to offer both romantics and cynics about love, film, and transformation.

The Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books

Gr 9 Up

Set in Ruby's Good Girls (HarperTempest, 2006) universe, this is the story of 18-year-old filmmaker Edward "Eddy" Rochester (named for Orson Welles's version, not Brontë's original), who was raised on cinema by his struggling actress mother. Now she's left the family for a bit part on a formulaic Miami crime show. At the close of senior year, Eddy is not thinking college. His main concerns are making movies (getting MTV to produce Riot Grrl 16 that he and his friends shot) and making moves on girls (lately, the fierce, athletic, unattainable Lucinda Dulko). Normally accustomed to getting girls without getting caught up, he's enthralled. Eventually insecurities and differing game plans for their futures find Eddy in a new role-dumpee. This wrinkle, combined with his AWOL mother and threatened career goals, means an impromptu road trip (important but somewhat tacked on) and serious self-evaluation. Eddy is enjoyable in that charming, self-obsessed, heartbreaker way, and he's flawed and vulnerable enough to be real. While readers will root for Riot Grrl 16 's success, what will grab them is the focus on Eddy's relationships-with Lucinda, his mom, his friends (serious Joe, horn-dog video-clerk Rory, faux-punk and bluntly honest Gina), and his family of abandoned men. The best moments involve uncensored Gina or heartbreaking Meatball, Eddy's half brother, who spouts morbid factoids and "dies" various deaths waiting for Eddy to revive him. Pop culture (film related), innuendos, sexual situations (not graphic), and snappy dialogue are all a part of this relationship-centered read.-Danielle Serra, Cliffside Park Public Library, NJ

School Library Journal

Eddy is enjoyable in that charming, self-obsessed, heartbreaker way, and he’s flawed and vulnerable enough to be real.” — School Library Journal

“Guy lit with a brain and a heart, this has plenty to offer both romantics and cynics about love, film, and transformation.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

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