Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3017998 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 193 pages

Customer Reviews

Original New Teen Fiction
For years, Rhiannon Melissa Taylor, was the uber-adorable star of the Friday night kids sitcom, Wing and a Prayer, and she was everywhere you looked, magazines, TV, and more. Until, of course, 12 months ago when she gained a bit of teenage weight, and her TV Producer, who now refers to her as "Little Girl Lard," fired her, to bring on someone more cute. Rhee, utterly humiliated by her new nickname, and thoughts of being a child actor has-been, returns home to her family in Queens. Now Rhiannon is forced to face a sickening new truth, heading to a public high school. One that is co-ed. And being forced to allude the paparazzi at all costs, as they try to snap horrible pictures of her new fallen-personality, that will surely grace the covers of every tabloid. But as she's worried about her own problems, Rhee fails to see the fact that her family is falling apart now that she's not bringing home money to support them, which could lead to even bigger problems than being the used-to-be it girl.

As far as first impressions go, it was the magazine-esque cover of THE USED-TO-BE IT GIRL that captured my attention, but it was the plotline, and well-crafted story held within it's pages that kept me engrossed in Rhiannon's story until the very end. Amy Kaye has once again created an amazing teen novel, one that will have fans of teen celebrities the world over realizing what can really happen to their beloved stars once they disappear from the covers of magazines, and TV shows. Overall this was a fantastic novel, one that is sure to become a hit with teens, male or female, of all ages.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

The Used to be It Girl
Rhiannon Taylor has been the star of a wing and a Prayer for 6 years. Nine out of ten are likely to watch it each Friday night. It's her 16th birthday. She has a new car. Everything's perfect, right?


Rhiannon has been replaced. The media is writing low stories about her. Her sister is against her. Secrets are going on. If you want to find them out, read this entertaining, but informative book.

Eveywhere You Go
Everywhere she goes people already know Rhiannon Taylor. The star from A Wing and a Prayer. Who wouldn't she's everywhere you go? Now she's been fired. This book is serious and funny at the same time. It shows how people really are. But I was expecting more pages.