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Dancers, Quitters, and Garden Gnomes Kindle Edition

by Emily Evans (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
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Why is the hottest guy in school such a jerk?

Alyssa’s a dancer who loves choreography. She’s new to town and she’s done with mean dance teams, and dance instructors who insult to motivate. She’s out to prove that an appreciative, supportive choreographer can win the Willow Dance Championship. When handsome, witty Thayer asks her out, the lights of New York shine even brighter.

She doesn’t know he’s lying about his last name, thinks she’s a poor scholarship girl, and is on a date with her as an experiment. And when she finds out…

Thayer’s sick of dating the girls at Shay Prep who use his family’s influence to get ahead in society. He decides to date a girl from the prep school across town. That’s when his best friend offers him a challenge, “Stop with the prep school girls. Go out with a regular girl, not someone paying 100K a year in tuition.” It’s one of those ideas that hits him as right. Thayer musses his perfect hair, ditches his Shay Prep blazer and accepts the challenge. Twelve dollars will buy him a bit of truth – will a Manhattan girl go out with a guy who only has twelve dollars to spend on their date? He finds Alyssa, the pretty scholarship dancer.
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    12 - 18 years
  2. Print length
    163 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    May 26, 2016
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Emily Evans writes fun, young adult romance. She holds a BA in Psychology from Texas A&M University and an MFA in Creative Writing from American College Dublin. A native Houstonian, she loves travel, movies, and books and may be found at www.EmilyEvansBooks.com. Books by Emily Evans include: The Accidental Movie Star, Accidental TV Star, Accidental Action Star, Accidental Rock Star, Accidental Billionaire, The Prince with Amnesia, The Boarding School Experiment, Prep School Experiment, Do Over, The Kissing Deadline, Whenever, and Dancers, Quitters, and Garden Gnomes.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01CZ6BV8Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (May 26, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 26, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1635 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 163 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1694862704
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 110 ratings

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Emily holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American College Dublin and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Texas A&M University.

Emily is a native of Houston, Texas. She loves travel, movies, and books. Find her at www.EmilyEvansBooks.com

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mabg
5.0 out of 5 stars A sweet, strong and fulfilling book
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2016
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YA at its best has a deep core. It speaks about maturity and what that actually is, about choices and how they define a person -- until that person chooses different possibilities and works to become someone new instead. This is a very fine YA novel. It has appealing characters who are sometimes profoundly unsure of themselves. They can be completely wrong, and sometimes choose to do the wrong thing, but when their hearts are in the right place, they're magnificent. Alyssa especially is a wonderful and wonderfully flawed person. At her old school she was a follower, got hurt because of it, and said nothing while others were hurt, so at Shay Prep she's decided to be herself and see what happens. That turns out to be a lot harder than she'd imagined, especially because of Thayer, a boy who attracts and repels her in almost equal measures. I really liked that their relationship was hard for them both for so long. Easy fixes aren't real. People don't change overnight, especially when they have such good reasons to be negative. Thayer has been used his whole life, and that's made him a very guarded jerk who's sure everyone is out for his money and his family's influence. Alyssa sees something more and stronger in him. She's determined to get him to see those same possibilities for himself, and to correct his false assumptions about her. Their relationship follows a much more realistic trajectory than in many books. There's no insta-love or cliched about-faces with one particular moment changing a person forever. Instead, their relationship gradually shifts through Alyssa's hard work and Thayer's slow learning to trust, despite setbacks, disappointment and personal attacks. And Thayer isn't the only one changing -- Alyssa, too, learns to stand up for herself and her own way of seeing, both as a person and as a choreographer. It's a lovely, satisfying story and I'm going to read Emily Evans' other work.
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Kelly
4.0 out of 5 stars On point(e)! ;)
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016
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I have read and loved all of Emily Evans' Accidental series books and Dancers, Quitters, and Garden Gnomes is equally pleasing and refreshing. I loved Alyssa's strong character. I loved the dance and math brainiac aspects. I loved the usual Emily sarcasm. It was a quick, clean read that any fan of Emily's will enjoy!
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Dorothy
5.0 out of 5 stars YA in New York City
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016
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Here is a strong female lead character, Alissa, who comes in to a new situation and does her best to do things the right way. Instead of beating down the dancers in her troupe, she encourages and motivates them. Instead of returning the rude behavior she sees in Thayer, the boy who interests her, she turns the other cheek and works on building trust and a friendship with him. One interesting side plot addresses economic status: can a boy from one background make a go of things with a girl from another background? The author draws a parallel between these teenagers and Romeo and Juliet, whose families were equally prosperous rivals. The new money/old money discussion, thankfully, does not make an appearance. Hard work, talent and diligence do feature prominently and are rewarded.
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Chelsea Martin
4.0 out of 5 stars Give it a try
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2016
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This was a good page turner, It seemed a little rushed in the end and I felt that with the content it could have been placed within multiples books if the author would have chose to.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I hope all my grandchildren read this book!
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016
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This is a beautifully written book for young adults and mature high school students. Although close to retirement, I loved every minute of it too. The main characters are wonderfully depicted and evolve in a natural and delightful way. The heroine is a dancer and math geek -- this makes for a lot of amusing situations as the different parts of her life, and the people in it, jockey for a comfortable place. Lots of subtle lessons about class, compassion, and leading with your heart are woven into the tale.
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Gwen
5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet-clean YA
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2016
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I loved this story. As soon as I saw this new book, I preordered it without even reading the synopsis, and I've read it from start to finish twice now. Emily Evans is one of my all time favorite YA author's.

Some of the characters are from the boarding school books, but you don't have to read them first.

I loved the characters, their chemistry was great, and their interactions were fun to read about.
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Djevline
4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2016
There were a few things I didn't like about the book like how it seem that the author only focused only on the main characters and not giving much information about how they actually are. The romance was sweet but I feel like it was a little to fast other than that the book was totally awesome I would recommend this book to people who like cheessy books
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emma
5.0 out of 5 stars von der ausleihe zum kauf
Reviewed in Germany on May 9, 2017
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emily evans bücher faszinieren mich immer wieder. sie beschreibt ihre (meist sehr jungen) hauptpersonen gut, die situationen sind lebensnah, die lösungen der probleme nachvollziehbar.
dieses spezielle buch hatte ich mir erst ausgeliehen - prime-kunden können das 1x im monat, praktischerweise, was mir oft bei der entscheidung geholfen hat, ob ich ein buch kaufe oder nicht (bei leseproben bin ich zu oft reingefallen, wenn diese gut waren und der rest des buches dann schlecht. kommt leider öfter vor als man denkt.).

das einzige, was manchmal den lesefluss stört ist, wenn wörter im satz nicht ganz die richtige position haben: "sie zog am beige ihres rollkragenpullovers" macht als "sie zog am rollkragen ihres beigen pullovers" irgendwie mehr sinn, nur um mal ein beispiel zu nennen. e.e. dankt zwar lektorin und "proofreader", aber solche sachen haben sie wohl übersehen. fällt mir auch nur auf, wenn mein lesefluss stockt, weil mein hirn unterbewusst meldet: "da stimmt was nicht!"

hier kommt wieder eine klare lese-empfehlung, auch wenn ihr nicht zur anvisierten leserschaft gehört, von ballett keine ahnung habt und gartenzwerge nicht leiden könnt. völlig egal, genießt die geschichte!
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4.0 out of 5 stars It was good!!
Reviewed in Australia on December 17, 2016
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I really loved the title and that was pretty much the main reason I picked up the book in the first place.
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