Emma G. Loves Boyz: A True Love
Journal
by Taro Meyer
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GENRE: YA/Middle Grade
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BLURB:
Emma G.
is CRAZY about Aaron, lead singer of Boyz3000. Of course, she doesn’t actually
know him, but so what? Feelings are feelings. That is until Josh appears… and
he’s soooooo CUTE. Navigating her two crushes and her middle school life,
especially with eighth-grade hater Renee around, is a challenge. And oh yeah,
she’s got to earn money for an AWESOME trip to the Bahamas to see the band of
her dreams. Hello???? How much can one thirteen-year-old take???
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EXCERPT
“You know that thousands of girls like Aaron,” she
said. “Right?”
“So??”
“So it’s statistically almost impossible that a pop
star boy will date a fan.”
I should have known she’d say something like that.
I wanted to say, “Okay, just forget it.” But instead I said, “Whatever! I mean
I just love his singing and his writing. That’s all.”
But that’s not all. How do you change what you feel
just because some stupid statistics say you don’t have a chance? An article in
Tigerbeat said Aaron had dated a girl from his high school for three months!
And she wasn’t a star! So who knows what can happen? When you feel something,
you have to believe! Your feelings are totally crucial to your life! When I
look at Aaron’s face I get those stomach flutters! And feelings CANNOT BE
IGNORED.
I started thinking about stomach flutters instead
of the essay and wondering why they happen with just one particular boy. Why
can one boy make your stomach go CRAZY????
I called my cousin Elyse to ask what she thought
because she’s older and experienced.
“No one really knows,” she said. “That feeling just
hits you. But you want to make sure that the boy you like, likes you back.”
“How can you tell?”
“Well,” she said after thinking for a minute,
“sometimes boys don’t want you to know they like you. So they look at you like
they are trying to look like they aren’t looking at you or liking you, but
really, they are.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Taro
Meyer is a Grammy, Parents’ Choice, and Audie Award winning Audio Producer
who has been producing and directing YA audiobooks for over 20 years,
including The Princess Diaries Series starring Anne Hathaway,
the All American Girl Series starring Ari Meyers, The Inheritance
Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, Brisngr) and Judy Blume’s The Pain and
the Great One, Here’s to You Rachel Robinson and Tiger
Eyes among others.
She
co-produced two touring companies of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's smash rock
show Christmas Eve and Other Stories and their TV
special The Ghosts of Christmas Eve, receiving Gold and Platinum
Albums for her work with the team. She was associate producer of the
award winning anti-bullying movie, “The Contest,” and co-produced
the premier showcase of off-Broadway’s Little Willie.
As
an actress and singer, she starred on Broadway in the musical Zorba, in
numerous regional and off-Broadway shows, and on TV’s All My Children,
Another World (for which she also composed music) and the
mini-series Memories of Midnight, amongst others.
Meyer wrote
and produced the upcoming children’s album: Mighty Musical
Fairy Tales, starring international artist Patti Austin; an updated, joyous
musical version of Classic Fairy tales, accompanied by an illustrated book, The
Ugly Duckling.
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