Ultra Cute Volume 1
Grade 5-8–Ami and Noa have always competed with one another, mostly over boys. So when an opportunity comes up to go to a karaoke party with kids from another school, they jump at the chance to show each other up. The party ends up being a dud, so they crash another one, where they meet two guys who may be their matches. In order to get to know them better, the teens are forced to cooperate. But for all their aggressive behavior, these girls are very sweet and innocent, dreaming of the perfect first kiss and boyfriend to give it. And the boys they are trying for are not the nice guys that they seem to be at first. Ami is forced to face the facts and tries to protect her rival/friend, while at the same time seeking revenge by forcing one of the guys to fall for her. This is a somewhat fluffy romance, with good core values, that girls will eat up. The layout is in traditional manga style, with expressive black-and-white drawings in the expected ultra-cute style. A good purchase for libraries with ravenous manga readerships.–Dawn Rutherford, King County Library System, Bellevue, WACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.