专题简介
Francesca Castarelli has to choose. Dreamy and athletic Jeremy is the most popular boy in her school and the center of her social scene. Luke Barton isn't part of her scene at all—he's her SAT tutor and an impudent smart-ass. Will Francesca risk everything for the guy who drives her crazy—in every way?
关键词： SAT阅读理解
Today, directly after school, I drove to Donner Park for my meeting with Luke. The venue, the Donner Outdoor Auditorium, was picked by him for reasons he refused to explain. But it was a great choice, because today was a real halcyon day: bright yellow su 【详细】
Today, for the first time in the history of Columbus High, the Student Disciplinary Committee got its day in court. I was so proud. I had advised Luke to give as few details as possible but to show how deeply he regretted his actions—which were admitted 【详细】
I convinced Nikki to wake up early and go running with me before the test. I was totally exhausted when the alarm went off, but I did it anyway. And at first, during the test, it did seem to help. My mind was totally alert, and on the first three sections 【详细】
I went to see Luke today, at his house. He looked like a textbook derelict, with a two-day stubble and that depressed, hopeless glint in his eyes. And he didn’t smell too good, either. I told him to shower and shave, and then we’d talk. When he came b 【详细】
I woke up this morning with a headache the size of Rhode Island. Let’s just say there was a lot of crying last night. After three Excedrin and a long hot shower, I moaned all the way downstairs. “You don’t look so good,” Mom said when I walked int 【详细】
By the time we arrived, I wondered whether I wasn’t too bloated to dance. But Eric wasn’t having it. He pulled me out on the floor and just started boogying. After a few dances, he decided go by the alias “Lothar, King of a Thousand Dances.” “Ca 【详细】
Eric and his Lincoln Town Car showed up with remarkable alacrity at seven on the dot. Not unsurprisingly, his idea of a “cool tux” didn’t necessarily corroborate the image I’d had in my head. In fact, it wasn’t so much a tux as . . . not a tux. 【详细】
Today the candidates for Junior Prom King and Queen were announced. Among the candidates were Jeremy, Luke, Nikki and yours truly. I was psyched, especially since various rumors are still circulating about me since my big breakup with Jeremy. But then, I 【详细】
Down to the wire—two weeks to go until the prom—and I’m still deficient in the date category. Luke and I do that thing in the hall at school, where I’m sort of looking at him, and I think he’s looking at me too, but whenever the other one notice 【详细】
I sought out Jeremy today, after school, and found him at Olympia, this joint right near school where they sell candy and doughnuts and other such nutritious lures. It’s the main nexus spot for meeting up with friends, primarily because of its proximity 【详细】
Not a big Easter turnout this year. Just my parents, myself and—as a substitute for Rico, who’s off at tennis camp—my Uncle Randy. Tremulous about the potential of a repeat performance from Thanksgiving, Dad emptied the liquor cabinet. Mom hid her n 【详细】
During my fifteen-minute break at work today, I went out to my car, where I knew a bag of delicious spicy nacho Doritos were waiting for me. While unlocking the door, I saw a shock of color that was definitively not Doritos. A huge bouquet of flowers was 【详细】
On the plane ride back, I thought a lot about Nikki. I knew that if we were ever going to reconcile, drastic measures were needed. I had a few tricks left in my arsenal that might get us talking again. Conner and I had done a quick analysis of all our fav 【详细】
He came. My heart shot up through my esophagus when I heard the knock. The first thing he said was, where had I been? He had stopped by three times already, yesterday afternoon and once in the evening. (Stupid manatees!) He said he even talked to the gr 【详细】
No sight of him yet. I am beginning to doubt the Greek man’s sagacious advice, or at least my interpretation of it. I’m 130 pages into Zorba the Greek, and I’m grooving on it, though Zorba’s having a better go of it than I am. I’ve played so man 【详细】
Today there was a guy at the pool. A plenitude of them, actually, but only one that mattered. I had been watching him for a while, and not just because he was exceedingly cute—bright blue eyes, a tanned, carved-up bod straight off the cover of Men’s F 【详细】
Why didn’t anyone tell me Anna Karenina dies? She actually throws herself onto train tracks, too. That is seriously messed up. And really not helping matters right now. It’s just like me to pick pring break for the onset of severe, acute depression. T 【详细】
I was totally prepared. I really was. Jeremy picked me up at home. We went to Applebee’s for dinner. It went fine, though my Chicken Cobb Salad was more filling than I’d expected and left me feeling less than sexy. And then, there was the fact that Je 【详细】
I e-mailed Nikki three times. The first time, I said I had a surprise for her. The second time, I said it was an emergency and she had to contact me immediately. The third time, I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I told her the whole deal—that my parents 【详细】
Mom came up to my room tonight, as a sort of follow-up visit to the heart-to-heart we had the other night. She wanted to know if I had made peace with Nikki. I hadn’t. “Well, maybe this will alleviate her anger.” Mom pulled an envelope from behind h 【详细】
Jeremy is the only string of hope I have left, and even our relationship feels tenuous. Which is why I went out of my way to smother him with affection today. I even told him I was ready to do it, and I wasn’t playing around this time. Luke had my head 【详细】
I couldn’t stand it anymore. No longer could I languish alone with my thoughts, my best friend hating me, too overcome by the inertia of self-hate to sleep, do homework or function socially. A decisive and valiant step had to be taken. Such was the misg 【详细】
I was forced to prevaricate to get a day off school today. I claimed PMS complications, even though mine won’t come until late next week. It’s quite possible that I’m losing my mind. The only person who still wants to be around me is Jeremy, and I f 【详细】
Nikki hasn’t talked to me in a week. I’ve left like six bizillion messages on her machine. Finally, today, I decided I couldn’t take it anymore. I furtively sneaked up on her at her locker and kind of pinned her there. “Hey,” I said. She looked 【详细】
Got a message on the machine from Luke saying he couldn’t make tonight’s makeup tutoring session because he had to work. I couldn’t stop wondering—did he really have to work, or was he just afraid to see me? Was he feeling as mixed up about everyt 【详细】
We’re stuck in that stagnant period of deep winter when days just sort of blend into each other. A week just rolled by, and I swear nothing happened. Wake up, hit snooze, get bundled up, go to class, eat, talk, do homework, eat, sleep. Repeat. My conver 【详细】
The universe really does have a great sense of humor. I mean, what’s the deal with plopping Valentine’s Day right in the middle of the most confusing time in the history of my barely existent romantic life? I can’t tell you how many times in the pas 【详细】
I was late to the tutorial, but Luke hadn’t even been in school that day so I wasn’t sure what was going on anyway. The whole ride over to his house I rehearsed my diatribe. He was either being insensitive or just clueless, and regardless, it was toyi 【详细】
Nikki just called and woke me up. I was in that deeply relaxed state of half-sleep that comes right after you set your book down but before you’re fully conked out. I looked at the clock—12:47. Nikki was pretty delirious herself—but in a more energe 【详细】
So I don’t know why I made the decision right then, while Jeremy and I were kissing in our usual spot in his basement, wedged in between square-shaped sofa stools, listening to Les Nubians. But suddenly it hit me that I’d be repeating history if I kep 【详细】
Nikki showed up at Viewpoint Books tonight, in the middle of my first shift. I was glad to see her, because after a week of debating, I knew I had to tell her about the lesson I was having with Luke. Especially now that we had a real date and everything. 【详细】
I definitely did the right thing. It’s like Luke is this totally different person lately. He asked me today if we could have our lesson Wednesday night, but I told him Thursday night worked best for me. He said he’d made other plans for Thursday, but 【详细】
Punxsutawney Phil must have seen his shadow today. I think things are looking up for me. I wrote an editorial in the school paper that the editor-in-chief called “brave.” I got compliments for it today at school. Open Letter to Principal Adams Dear Dr 【详细】
Today I got an e-mail from Luke. Dear Francesca, I believe I have complied with my end of our arbitration (in spades), without so much as a thank you from you. But so be it. I will assume that I’m absolved of all guilt. Let’s fast forward to the matte 【详细】
All of Rico’s chirping, shoulder-punching, baggie-clothed,,hair-gelled friends showed up over an hour early for his party. I know this wasn’t out of fealty toward Rico, but just because of the Luke cameo. This freaked out my mom, who naïvely expects 【详细】
I went out and procured a job today, right after I used fourteen of my last sixteen bucks on gas. Indigence can be frightening, the way it constricts your freedom and makes you obsess about what you haven’t got. You don’t have to endure being a pauper 【详细】
First day back at school. I wasted no time. When Jeremy got to his locker before homeroom, I was waiting there. I took no chances on the outfit—it was my colorful flower-print Quiksilver skirt and a tight black fuzzy sweater, the exact same outfit he’ 【详细】
Due to a state of isolation-induced monotony bordering on epidemic, I actually sunk to an all-time nadir today. To cheer myself up, I willfully, even gladly submitted to an online practice SAT test. I got a 640 on the verbal section, which is pretty vener 【详细】
Gray Saturday. Things aren’t getting much easier. Jeremy finally called. He grilled me about what happened outside with Luke, down to the last detail. For the most part, my story held up against the crossfire. It’s not like anything happened between u 【详细】
I hereby pronounce today Black Thursday. Jeremy isn’t speaking to me. He can’t believe I walked out on the party and didn’t stick around to kiss him at midnight. I kind of think he could have come after me, but he doesn’t see it like that. Then I 【详细】
Jeremy and I exchanged gifts today. He said he loved his watch, and I don’t think he was faking it, because he put it on and didn’t take it off. There’s something about a watch that makes a guy more tantalizing. He got me a brown suede jacket, which 【详细】
I won’t bore you with all the odious little details, because Christmas is always Christmas, especially the morning part. Jingle bells, jingle all the way. Ripping apart wrapping paper. “Oh, thanks so much!” Kiss and hug. More ripping. Frosty the Sno 【详细】
As part of a larger effort to support her in this time of need, I have spent the last twenty-four hours with Nikki. First off, Mrs. Abrams drove us up to the Fashion Mall north of Indy for some last-minute holiday shopping. Despite my mom’s unmitigated 【详细】
Luke e-mailed today to say he received my letter, which I finally decided to mail after what he did to Nikki. The sniveling twit said that it made him feel like dung. He also admitted that I was deft with words and that my verbal skills were worthy of app 【详细】
In English class today, we discussed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, which we just finished reading. Luke, who has been making snide comments about the book for weeks, started off by calling Austen an overrated “writer of Victorian soap operas.” I 【详细】
When I got home tonight, my answering machine was blinking with three messages from Nikki, saying we had to talk . . . now. The urgency seemed to increase with each one, so I grabbed some special “medicine” from the emergency supply in my bedroom and 【详细】
I was sitting in the living room this evening after school, procrastinating on my English essay, wallowing in self-pity, and fending off waves of bad cramps. “Blind Date” was on TV. It’s one of those dating shows you can’t stop watching because at 【详细】
I found out I won the election today. Principal Adams divulged the results over the PA system during last period. Some of the people in my health class clapped, causing me to timorously blush into my desk’s wood veneer. When the bell rang, Jeremy was wa 【详细】
Ah, Thanksgiving at the Castarelli household. Per usual, Grandma Castarelli turned the Head Cook position into an appointed U.S. Army command post, barking orders at mom and censuring me for my lackadaisical attitude toward the kitchen. Dad went downstair 【详细】
It was before first period when I saw it—right next to one of my posters. My jaw almost dropped to the floor in abject horror. A huge picture of him, smirking and giving a snarky double thumbs-up. Beneath it: LUKE BARTON FOR PRESIDENT OF VICE Oh, no! 【详细】
Okay, fine. I miss him. But that’s totally between us, okay? Not a single soul will ever know. And it’s just because he’s the only person who can actually keep up with my vocabulary, and I think it really was helping me prep for the SATs. That’s a 【详细】
Tonight was my last vocabulary tutorial with Luke. Aside from the Jeremy issue, Nikki was running low on funds and didn’t have much of a reason to keep sponsoring my lessons now that she had the guy. As soon as we sat down for work, I told him what the 【详细】
Been doing a lot of pontificating about politics these past few weeks. My parents always have CNN on in the mornings before we leave, and it’s hard not to get sucked in to all the crazy stuff going on in the world. However, my burning zeal for global af 【详细】
I was standing at my locker today, between third and fourth periods, minding my own business, when Jeremy stormed up—well, as much as he could storm on his almost healed ankle—and blind-sided me with a stream of invective. “I can’t believe, after 【详细】
Just got back from the Halloween party at Megan’s house, which means I come wielding copious amounts of gossip. Megan, it should be noted, is one of the members of the Triumvirate. (They don’t call themselves that—it’s a sobriquet Nikki and I came 【详细】
I had my second tutorial with Luke today. Having listened to a weeklong stream of vitriol from Jeremy about the chump who usurped his spot on the team, I couldn’t help but feel combative toward Luke. Instead of reciprocating my chilly demeanor, though, 【详细】
Talk about bad timing—can you believe I had to have my seventeenth birthday today, right after Jeremy’s injury? I guess I should have been prepared for disappointment, considering how grim my horoscope was. Here’s an excerpt: “Dear obdurate and co 【详细】
Tonight was opening night for varsity soccer. There’s nothing like that anticipation, that nervous churning in your gut as you lace up your cleats. We trotted out of the locker room, me leading my troupe of soccer warriors. A faint zephyr blew across th 【详细】
“You thought it was my butt?” Jeremy complained. “How’s that possible? How could we be dating for this long and you can’t distinguish mine from someone else’s?” “I don’t know!” I said. “We were running. I couldn’t see!” This was 【详细】
After she bribed me with a gift certificate for a free massage, I finally acquiesced to Nikki’s demands. Which is why, after soccer practice today, she dropped me off in Forest Estates at 3224 Grove Parkway—a.k.a., the House o’ Luke. We could barely 【详细】
Nikki and I have last lunch period, so the dining area was rife with taco wrappers and used hot sauce packets. I sat in our favorite booth, next to the window least obscured by those huge Taco Bell sticker ads, waiting for Nikki to bring the food over. Sh 【详细】
Nikki and I went to “study” tonight at the library. Columbus has the sickest library you’ve ever seen. It’s this big, cavernous lump of red bricks and glass, and the interior is straight off the Sci Fi Channel. It was designed by I. M. Pei. He’s 【详细】
Today was the first day of soccer tryouts. It’s weird to be the captain and have to wear your game face all the time. Coach Haskins started out practice with some rousing oration about how we could be contenders for state this year. It would, however, t 【详细】
Okay, so maybe not much is different this year. But one thing I decided was that since I finally had a real boyfriend, I was going to enjoy that standard dating ritual that most girls my age have—a dinner-and-a-movie date. So far I had only experienced 【详细】
So, the first day of school is a good time to start a new diary, right? At least, I thought so last night when I bought this book—back when I actually thought things would be different this year. I was convinced that after my recent leap up the high sch 【详细】
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