"High-school freshmen Josie and Cami are longtime best friends, but they are both vying for love and fame. They both like Ethan, but Josie liked him first, so when he starts flirting with Cami, Cami feels guilty flirting back (but does it anyway). Both girls play basketball, but Josie is a natural talent, while Cami works twice as hard and still blows her free throws. Their basketball team's MVP will get a chance to play with WNBA star Rebecca Lobo at an upcoming game, and both girls are in the running for that honor. This is light entertainment, short on characterization, but full of myriad awkward moments in romance. Told in alternating narratives from Josie and Cami, this novel captures tension of a best friendship gone sour from jealousy, and provides a believable happy ending that will please middle school girls." &mdash;<I>Booklist</I>
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"This new comedy from Rallison focuses on two best friends with crushes on the same boy. High-school freshmen Josie and Cami are basketball players. Josie is a natural talent, while Cami struggles with the game she loves. Cami pledges to help Josie get attention from handsome Ethan in return for basketball tips, but when Ethan begins calling Cami instead, Josie retaliates. Suspense abounds. Is the girls' friendship destroyed? Can either survive life with their weird science-project partners? And especially, can the girls ever achieve the ultimate goal of being 'in'? Rallison again demonstrates a crisp, witty comic voice. . . . By focusing on events of enormous import to adolescent girls and by keeping the laughs coming, she again delivers a high-school romp that will give readers plenty of fun." &mdash;<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>
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"Cami, 14, only has one thing on her mind&mdash;to become the MVP of her basketball team, giving her the opportunity to run drills with Rebecca Lobo, former star of the WNBA. But no matter how hard she tries, her best friend is better. For Josie, basketball comes naturally, but she is preoccupied with dreamboat Ethan, even though he never pays any attention to her. Friction between friends arises when Ethan notices and begins to telephone Cami, and Josie feels betrayed and angry. This is a fun, realistic, sometimes poignant story about two teens and the ups and downs of their relationship. Written from their alternating perspectives, this book shows how petty differences can be overcome." &mdash;<I>School Library Journal</I>
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