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All-American Girl by: Meg Cabot (1967-present)
Published in July of 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers

This novel is the first of two novels about the main character Samantha Madison who is the middle, usually forgotten, child of her family who is also the "black sheep" of the family. She gets in trouble for failing German because she spends class time drawing celebrity drawings for her classmates, so as punishment her parents enroll her in an art class where she meets a cute boy named, David. One day when Sam decides to skip her art class, she ends up saving the Presidents from a assassin. By saving the President, Sam instantly becomes a national hero and very popular, but Sam does not want this. Along with all of this fame, the she meets the presidents family and it turns out that his son is David from Sam's art class. To make matters even more embarrassing, Sam is appointed Teen Ambassador for the UN, and has to deal with political matters along with love troubles with David. By the end of the novel Sam has to realize what she really wants before its too late.

I'm not going to tell the ending, because I think it ruins books...

This novel deals with many adolescent issues such as the "in-crowd," popularity, teen angst, some political issues, staying turn to yourself lessons, and first loves.

-Amy Culver