Jenny Greenly is your average girl-next-door. She works on her high school newspaper staff as its ultra-secret advice columnist. But then Jenny's principal wants Jenny to keep another secret; Luke Striker is coming to this small town to research high school for his new movie and Jenny will be his student guide! Luke automatically thinks the worst of high school and wants Jenny to improve it. Will she?
SRA 7/20/06

Teen Idol is an excellent, inspiring, and enjoyable book. Teen Idol is about a shy, well-liked girl (Jenny) who finally takes a stand at her high school. Jenny is always putting others before herself. After meeting a celebrity who gives her advice Jenny transforms her high school for the better. Jenny completely ceased all the cruelness happening at her school. I really enjoyed this book because it had a real lesson to it. Everyone sees people being picked on, and everyone has experienced being picked on and they know how awful it feels. Most of the time people just watch and let the bully continue to pick on their victim. This story sends a message that we all have the power to stop a bully.

Just because someone looks different or acts different doesn't mean you can taunt and judge them. Everyone has something unique about themselves, and we should all respect that. Everyone's beautiful in their own way. In "Teen Idol", Jenny stops many cases of bullying and helps solve people's issues. If everyone cared about people like Jenny and had the courage to stand up to people as Jenny did, our school could be a better place. I think everyone should read this book and let this book influence them as positively as it did me.
kb 8/4/05