GOY CRAZY by Melissa Schorr
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  9/1/06
    Publisher:  Hyperion
    Reviewed by:  Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen
    Rating:  5 Stars


    All a girl wants to do is find the love of her life, or in this case a high school sweetheart. Fortunately for Rachel
    Lowenstein, she has just found the guy at her brother’s bar mitzvah. He’s handsome, a basketball player, and his name
    is Luke Christiansen.  Which is the only problem she has with Luke--his last name. All Rachel hears from her
    grandmother and family is how she should find a respectable Jewish boy to date and marry. But crushing on Luke may
    not be the best choice for Rachel since he is far from being Jewish; he celebrates Christmas! So Rachel decides that
    she is tired of all the problems that she faces, from bad hair to having hardly any friends, and makes up her own teen
    commandments, which she occasionally changes, and which she hopes to break.

    So Rachel begins to change the way she does things.  She starts acting dumb in math class, lies to her family, and tries
    her best to keep Luke a secret. Besides that, Rachel also has to deal with her only best friend, Jen, who is trying to get
    into the popular crowd; Leah, her only other real friend who keeps on warning Rachel about her wrongdoings; and
    Howard, Rachel’s neighbor-turned-enemy.

    Yet Rachel starts to second-guess her decisions and wonders if they are really worth all the lies and deception when
    the ultimate tragedy happens to her. Is Luke really the guy for her; is acting dumb in math class worth the “popular”
    points? Rachel ends up discovering her true self and sees that change just isn’t for her.

    GOY CRAZY is sweet, tragic, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. With her first teen novel, Ms. Schorr successfully makes
    her main character understandable, relatable, and, above all, realistic. By the end of the novel, readers will be glad
    about Rachel’s final decisions, yet sad that the novel is over. GOY CRAZY was a fantastic read that left me wanting
    more. I just hope there will be a follow-up to this novel.
Goy Crazy
by Melissa Schorr