Janine and Alex, Alex and Janine

by Michael Levin

Have you ever dreamed about a totally new life? Janine is a supermodel--rich, famous and gorgeous. Alex is a typical high school girl--friendly, hardworking and oh-so-normal. From acclaimed author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425160424
• ISBN13: 9780425160428
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 16 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 11

Customer Reviews

Good, mindless fun!

This book is a fun read. Not a lot of thinking required. It is definitley enjoyable though. I bought this book about 4 years ago, and have read it many times since. I think that the appeal is that everybody wishes this story was happening to them. Trading places with a supermodel, travelling to Paris on the Concorde, getting revenge on the boy who broke your heart...I recommend this book to girls ages 12-15. Be warned! You wont be able to put it down!

"Based on the book by Michael Levin"

... I purchased this book after watching themade-for-tv-movie that it was based on. I have to say that the movieis only vaguely similar to the book, so to look at it in comparison tothe movie isn't really the best way to do it. What makes this bookspecial is that the characters in the book go through a lot of changes and discover a lot about themselves along the way. This book is a good read for any teenager who has dreamt of being in someone else's shoes, even just for a week. For dreamers and realists alike, this book has something for you. For anyone who saw the movie, be warned that the book is different from the movie, but both are very enjoyable in their own way. Well, maybe one is a little more realistic than the other... Read the book, you'll know what I mean. END

More to Life than what meets the eye!

This story not just how if you are an average girl someone out there that is a "MODEL" or "MOVIESTAR" will find you and you can switch places. It is about learning to believe in yourself with the things you are doing in life. When you believe you are cool you will become "COOL" or at least feel better about yourself and not worry about what others think. Take that first big step in believing in what you are! And magical things will happen, NO Justin Timberlake will not show up at your Prom, but maybe that cute boy you have had your eye on for years will speak to you and find out the real you! GOOD LUCK!

Model Behavior

I really liked this book. The ABC movie with Justin Timberlake and Kathy Lee Gifford was based on this book. I really liked it and wish everyone should read it. Oh, it is about a nerdy girl and a movie star meeting, looking exactly alike and trading places.

"An awesome book teens can really relate to."

Janine and Alex are two teens that meet over the internet, one, a typical school girl, Alex, who wishes she could be on the runway, like a model or moviestar, and Janine, who is a model and moviestar who wishes to live the life of a normal child, friends, school, and family. They are introduced over an instant message on the internet and plan to meet. When they do meet, they find out they look excactly alike! So they decide to trade places, one lives as a schoolgirl, the other as a major moviestar on the runway. While on their adventures of living each other's lives, they discover very interesting things, for instance, Alex finds out that some of the rumors you hear about movie stars aren't true, and Janine finds out just how teens her own age really act outside the life of fame and fortune. One thing leads after another, which is very interesting when they keep continuing to secetly hide their real identity week after week, Janine insists that Alex doesn't come home! and just go to a photo shoot that turns out majorlly terrific. Alex (playing Janine) meets a moviestar and falls in love, later on tells who she really is. For Janine, she has to learn just how to act in highschool, not too popular, or a showoff. This is an excellent story about how you compare the different lives of a teen, and how they get to live the lives they really want, one who want a normal family and home, the other, fame and fortune. Of course at the end they do go back to their regular lives, boring and dull for them, but not if they switch! Read this book, it's really interesting!