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Title: depressing tripe, definately not for young adults....
Review: My review is geared more towards parents and/or other adults being asked to buy this book by their children-this book is just plain horrible! This poor young girl, Barbie, has a wretched stage mom, and a completely uninvolved father. She's forced by mom into modeling, left alone at 12, then molested by the photograper!!! Her mom's answer to this is "life is full of problems, deal with them". Even the fairy, Mab, says horrid things to her, and encourages her at 16 to drink, smoke and have sex!!!I cannot believe this is on middle school reading lists, and I'm no prude, this book shouldn't be suggested to anyone under 16 at least. None of these adult subjects are handled in this book with any sensitivity-just titilation value.Horrible! this book is rancid :(no stars.
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