Head Over Heels

by SparkNotes and Ryan Nerz

"Smart Novels" are compelling, full-length novels with edgy and mature themes that will appeal to teens. Each book showcases more than 1,000 vocabulary words frequently included on the SAT. Brief definitions appear on the same page so that readers can quickly access and digest the meanings as they read along.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1411400828
• ISBN13: 9781411400825
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Sparknotes
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Good way to become familiar with vocab

Head over heels is a book about a jr girl named Francesca who is going through many teen problems. She is having to deal with the SAT, just like most of the readers are as well. Like any other teen novel, some other problems include romance and deciding which boy to choose. As far as the storyline, it was not the best, you could tell some paragraphs were added here or there just to slide another vocab word in. Though, since this is a book meant to help you with your vocab i gave it 4 stars. I felt that not all the vocab words were used completely correctly but i liked how they were defined along the bottom of the page. This made it easy to understand and it does somewhat leave you hanging at times. I would not recommend this books for boys, unless you are desperate, because it is definitely a chick book. It did help me become familiar with the vocab words, but its not where i can memorize them by reading them once. I also bought Busted and Sun-Kissed by the same spark notes authors to help me become even more familiar with the vocab words. (I have not read them yet but the more examples you hear of a vocab word being used, the more familiar you will become with it.) Considering this is a vocab book, it is an okay storyline, but good to see vocab words used in sentences rather than on a flashcard.

A book for girls who like romance

The book is about two girls named Fran and Nikki, who are really good friends. The story of the girls shows the hardships for girls in high school. There are two main boys, Jeremy and Luke that have confusion with their feelings towards one another. Also, there is a conflict between the girls' friendship that needs to be worked out. I mainly liked it. There were parts that I didn't like, but they were small. The events that happened to Fran and Nikki are things that happen to most girls when looking for love, so you can relate to the book. While relating to the book, you can work on your vocabulary for the SATS or just for yourself. I felt that it was easy to understand. There are words that I didn't know but they were usually the bolded vocabulary words, which were defined on the bottom of the page.

HEAD OVER HEELS

This book was about this girl named Freancesca. She was 17. She had a complicated personality. She went to Colombus High School. Her biggest problem was this Luke because he was smarter then she was.What I didn't like was the vocabulary because I couldn't pronounc half of the words. They didn't give good enough descriptions.What I did like was it covered a lot of stuff that happens in school.