by Alex Sanchez
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Fifteen-year-old Carlos Amoroso is a virgin -- and he isn't happy about it. He'd love to hook up with gorgeous Roxy, but she has no idea he's alive. Watching a TV show one night gives Carlos an idea: What if he got a makeover from Sal, a senior at his school who's gay? Sal agrees -- but only if Carlos helps him start a Gay-Straight Alliance. Carlos doesn't expect the catch. What are his friends going to think? And is he ever going to get what he wants?
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Pop song worth listening to, 2008-05-18
This is one of those YA books that many non-literary teens would read. If not the hardcore bookhater perhaps the sensitive "could-be" reader. It does a great job of creating characters that most teens would recognize, of creating a story that many "straight" teens would read, and along the way pick up important ideas like washing their faces, eating fruit, being true to themselves, using condoms, asking for what you want, and becoming an activist for human freedom. Very nicely done - I have to imagine how it turns out because someone ripped out the last 30 pages of the library book I borrowed.
This work is unlikely to win a Nobel Prize and all the 'pendejos' and IMing and 'hook ups' and cartoony images of 'hot' ("nice nips") are less aesthetically pleasing for me than the other book I read yesterday - Full Service by Will Weaver. But it sets out to do an important task - to speak with (rather than at) modern teens in a caring, respectful, and effective way - and it does it with success and a little flair. It is pointed towards Hispanic American boys but not limited to them.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Positive Messages Contained Therein, 2008-04-01
Having worked with an organization supporting sexual minority youth, I can see the merit in recommending this book to disenfranchised GLBTQ teens. These kids have a tough row to plow (the suicide rate for this demographic is appalling) and anything that makes their lives more manageable for them is worth their investigating. Sadly, most of the "good" things that happen in the book do not happen in real life in most areas of the country still mired in homophobia and intolerance in general. The book sends a great message of tolerance and it's a feel-good story with a happy ending, but I fear that, once having read it, many teens will find their own situations, by comparison, even more bleak and hopeless. Times have changed, but, unfortunately, many hearts have not. The number of high schools in which the events in this story might play out positively is very small, but, hopefully, growing. For many readers it may be a beacon in the darkness. For others it will seem no more than an impossibly hopeful fairy-tale.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Get It, 2008-03-30
This is a well-crafted story of a teen who goes from immaturity to a deeper understanding of himself, his friends, his family, and his relationships at school.
Carlos is a typical teenage boy who wants to get laid and brag about it to his buddies, 3 friends he has had since childhood. In the style of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," he convinces the only gay guy he knows, Sal, to give him a makeover.
The plot is detailed in other reviews, so it's best to state what is fresh and unusual about this teen novel. I like it that the character portrayed is from a poor family and that it's done without pity. Carlos' transformation does not happen with "sudden realizations" (trademark of an amateur writer) but spring organically from his realizations that come out through experiences. While it's not hard to find a well-developed protagonist, all of the characters featured in this book are well-developed and distinct. It's as though the book is Alex Sanchez's experiences that just happened.
Great for teens, enlightening for all, and best of all, enjoyable to read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Best gay writer for gay Young Adults, 2007-12-11
Alex Sanchez is the Premiere gay writer of books for gay Young Adults. This takes "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and applies it to a 15 year old straight student who needs help with the girls..and goes to a perfectly styled 15 year old gay student for help. And gets it!!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Great book with a great moral, 2007-01-13
I loved this book. When I got it, I read the entire book in one night. I just couldn't put it down.
The story is not specifically a "gay" story. The main chacter is straight. This is a departure form many books that I have read from gay authors. The whole point of the book is understanding and tolerance. The friendship that developes between Carlos & Sal, is one that serves as a catalyst for a drastic change in Carlos' life. Sal takes Carlos from a nobody to someone, who is starting to know who they are, in the Queer Eye fashion. Through his "lessons" from Sal, Carlos learns how to stand up for himself, be confident in who he is, and be understanding of others who may be different from him.
I really like the book, because it is a book that just happens to have gay characters in it. The sexuality of the chacrters, while being part of the story, is not really the main point of the story.
I highly reccomend that teens and adults across the board read this book. If was can get more people to understand and tolerate the differences in other people, the world would be a better place.
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