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Luisa Perez and her best friends
have mastered the art of not participating in their high school, Dunfield aka
Dumpfields extracurricular activities. That is, until sophomore year brings
a literacy challenge to the city, girls against boys. The prize for which group
raises the most money for literacy awareness? Extra weeks of winter break.

Lu is snagged to write an
anonymous column about the fundraising effort, exchanging words with a male
counterpart. The debate between Scoop and Newshound becomes heated and
turns into a battle of the sexes, and their column gains more popularity as a
result.

However, heated exchanges occur in
other aspects of Lus life, too. Her family life is not the best, what with her
overbearing older sister constantly talking her down, and having to fend off
the raucous male factory workers at the diner where she works. But there are
plenty of opportunities for possible romancesometimes in the most unexpected
of places&unless the effects of the literacy column destroy any chance that Lu
has at love.

GIRL V. BOY was a pleasant, if
predictable, read. I have trouble describing how I felt about it, and yet when
I was reading it I couldnt put it down. Lu and her friends and classmates are
fun to read about. The ending was predictable, yes, but the beginning and
middle were not as predictable, thus sparing me from reading something
painfully boring. That being said, GIRL V. BOY was definitely an enjoyable read
that will appeal to high school girls looking for a hearty dose of rapid-fire
battle-of-the-sexes dialogue and a solid romance.