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Airhead | 
| Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Point
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1533
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0545040523
EAN: 9780545040525
ASIN: 0545040523
Publication Date: May 13, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Product Description
EM WATTS IS GONE. Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there?along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her?and life as she’d known it?forever? One bizarre accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the party princess, is no longer herself. Literally. Now getting her best friend, Christopher, to notice that she’s actually a girl is the least of Em’s problems. But what Em’s pretty sure she’ll never be able to accept might just turn out to be the one thing that’s going to make her dream come true?. NIKKI HOWARD IS HERE TO STAY.
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too May 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can't lie; this had to be the oddest book that I have read by one of my favorite authors!
Emerson Watts is a pretty typical nerdy girl at a good school. She has one best friend, who she is secretly in love with (It is a guy, by the way.) But she is only typical until she goes to a store opening with her sister and gets injured in a very freak accident.
When she wakes up after about a month of being unconscious, she feels like she is someone else.
And she actually is.
This is not a paranormal book. She gets a brain transplant.
At the end of the book I literally said, "Get me the next book! NOW!" The ending is a total cliffhanger!
The characters are smart, witty, and a little weird, as with typical Meg Cabot books. A fun read, even though the beginning is a little hard to understand, and can be difficult to get into. However, it is definitely worth reading the whole thing, because it is truly hilarious!
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
Love it! May 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow! The premise of this novel is a bit unusual, in terms of what Meg has written before. But once you wrap your head around the idea, it's classic Meg from start to finish! Wonderful storyline (love Christopher and the video game stuff); great characters (Em/Nikki and Lulu especially!). I can't wait to read the sequel. Bravo, Meg Cabot!
The Compulsive Reader's Reviews May 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Emerson Watts is not pleased when her mother forces her to take her celeb obsessed younger sister Frida to the grand opening of the Stark Megastore. She'd much rather stay home and read or play video games with her best friend Christopher. But when she's involved in a peculiar accident, Em finds that her life is changed forever. Soon she's living a completely different life, and is being watched on all sides, by friendly and not so friendly allies.
For those of you who have longed for a novel that is right up there next to Cabot's Mediator series, this would be it! Airhead exemplifies Cabot's trademark of writing inimitable and one of a kind plot lines, but rather than come across as unbelievable, her grounded, witty, and sharp characters make this fast paced novel plausible. Although more elaboration on certain characters before Em's accident would give them more depth, Cabot's fresh twist on the modeling world and carefully constructed dialogue make this book appealing to all. It spectacularly transcends the boundaries of teen genre, combining contemporary fiction, romance, humor, and science fiction to weave together an impressive first novel of what will assuredly be a breathtaking and brilliant trilogy.
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Tantalizing Beginning to Cabot's New Paranormal Series. May 3, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
When it comes to Meg Cabot's work, I tend to like her series the best -- way more, actually, than her stand-alones. For example, The Princess Diaries, The Mediator, and 1-800-Where-R-You as opposed to Jinx and How to Be Popular. The series are longer and there're more pages for the characters to develop and everything to be fleshed out. They aren't as rushed. So naturally, I was super excited when I heard that Cabot was coming out with a new paranormal series.
I've been following this book prior to its release on Cabot's blog and in various review sites around the net. The plot has been strictly kept mum, and much buzz has been generated from Cabot's husband's reaction: "Meg Cabot, this time you go too far." We were just told that Em Watts -- our clever heroine and a math, science, and video game lover -- suffers an accident that wildly (unbelievably, crazily, far-fetchedly, tragically, impossibly, etc.) connects her life to that of Nikki Howard's -- a famous teen supermodel. After reading hints on Cabot's blog and being a few chapters into the book, I figured out what this super-secret thing was that meshed the two characters' lives together. Before the big reveal later in the book, I mean. It's pretty huge. It's actually really sad... but in a gloriously painful emotionally wrenching way!
In short, I loved the book -- and if you're a fan of Cabot's other paranormal series, you will, too. Airhead was a complete book, but it felt like only the first few chapters in the entire story. It leaves a lot to be desired completion wise. Which is good it's a SERIES! (But the wait is going to be so long, guh!)
In fact, all my complaints center around the length -- which is actually flattering, I guess. I wish we could have seen more of Christopher, who along with Em is going to make this series, I predict, much like Mia-and-Michael, Suze-and-Jesse, and Jess-and-Rob did for their respective series. Now we have Em-and-Christopher, and their chemistry is cracklin'! Even without seeing them together hardly at all! And I also wish we could have seen Christopher's father, "The Commander", who sounds hilarious and was only mentioned. Excepting Lulu and Katerina, who seem very promising, all of Nikki's friends and handlers are much more flat -- like Brandon Stark, Jasonsomthing, and some people whose names I forgot -- telling -- and Gabriel Luna. The people of Em's "old life" are way more interesting, and I hope we get to see them more in the series, as they sadly got very little page time in Airhead.
Wonderful beginning! I expect the next installment, "Being Nikki", will be out next year, or so. Excuse me now. I'm going to go re-read every part with Em-and-Christopher.
The Story Siren Reviews: April 27, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
(THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER FREE)
Airhead by Meg Cabot
Emerson Watts is a high school junior, she is sneered at by the popular crowd and is in love with her best friend Christopher, whom doesn't seem to realize she is in fact a girl. It couldn't get much worse could it. It sure could, like getting stuck taking your little sister to the grand opening of some superstore to see her latest boy band crush. Luckily for Emerson, Christopher tags along. He even says she looks fine, as in okay. And Em is totally excited about her new "fine" status (maybe he does know she is a girl), until Christopher sees super model Nikki Howard. Emerson can't help but notice Christopher's stare and wonders if he would look at her that way if she were a super model. If only. She knows he will only every see her as a video -game playing tomboy, right?
I'm sorry but I left out a huge part of the story in my summary. I just can't make myself tell you what happens! You need to read it and discover it for yourself, because I know you are going to freak out, just like I did. What can I say, Cabot did it again , the lady is a freaggin literary genius. I mean how many books has she written, seriously. I know that this is going to be one of my new favorite series. You are going to love it, as well as fall in love with Emerson. She is my new best friend and she doesn't even know it! I cannot wait to read more about her. If you haven't already decided to get this book, you really should!
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