Mates, Dates, and Sizzling Summers

by Cathy Hopkins

Book Overview

" I reckon that's the last we've seen of Ollie Axford,"I said."I wouldn't be so sure TJ,"said Nesta."I bet he calls and asks you out.""Nah, he looks like a player. You know the type. Too much of a twinkle in his eye to be trusted.""A bit like Luke then?"said Lucy. Boys are like buses for TJ. No sign of one for ages and then two come along at the same time! First there's charmer Ollie Axford. And just when TJ has decided that he could be the one, old...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068987698X
• ISBN13: 9780689876981
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 11 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 10

Customer Reviews

Mates,Dates,and Sizzling Summers

There are four girls the main character is Izzy. They are B.F.F.L and Izzy is the new one to the group so she is a little shy. All is fun until the other two have boyfriends and the other two don't. Izzy's dad has a stroke and her mum is so upset. So her dad gets better really fast and the doctor ask them if they want his family's summer house in NORTHERN ENGLAND!!! They go there for a week and did i say that Izzy has two guys who are in love with her. So they go up there and stay for a week and they buy the house and the only have it during the summer, and she finds the guy that she wants and they live happily ever after till the next book. I wonder what will happen in the next book.

Good-Bye Lucy, Izzie, Nesta and T.J.

The final volume of this series has a title that only applies to a few paragraphs at the end. It is just after the Diamond Dazzle. T.J. gets Feng Shui help and discovers that her waste bin has been sitting in her relationship zone. No sooner is it moved than things begin to happen. A boy she met at the Diamond Dazzle calls and a new relationship may be beginning. But then tragedy strikes her family as one of them is hospitalized and relationships are not big on T.J.'s agenda. But it does give her an excuse to pick up some food as an alternate to what is being served in the hospital and she runs into Luke. You may remember him as the two-timer from TEMPTING TROUBLE that almost spit up the mates. Now T.J. finds herself interested in two guys in different ways. She needs a way to decide between them. This time she enlists the mates right up front so everything is in the open. But no sooner does she realize she has to make a decision then the guys run into each other. To complicate things, T.J.'s family heads for Cornwall for a bit of rest and recuperation. But T.J. still has to figure out how she feels about each guy without being a two-timer herself. As with the other books it all works out in the end but you will have to read it to find out how. This is the last book in the series and I was happy to see the preaching that was so important in the last two volumes was gone from this one. Sure, there is still some teen angst (there wouldn't be a series without it) and some real drama. The end reminded me of the end of Calvin and Hobbs where things don't end, they just confirm that they will go on. No silly breaking up the cast to the four winds. But it really didn't have the feel of being the last book (which could be less sad for those who will miss the characters). Still, if you have made it through the first eleven books, you will not be disappointed here. Read on.