Guyaholic by Carolyn Mackler

Pub. Date: April 2009
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Format: Paperback, 192pp
Source: Library
Age Range: Young Adult
ISBN-13: 9780763628017
ISBN: 0763628018
It al started when V was hit on the head with a hockey puck..
V(Vivienne) lives with her grandparent in Brockport, after her mom had left her there. Her mom, Aimee, is kind of a hippy dippy traveler who jumps living from place to place and lives day by day. And even seems to have another boy toy every day..
V is missing a stable home base, and a stable boyfriend. After her high school graduation (without her mom, who promised to be there but again 'couldn't make it') she has set her eyes on Sam, she landed on his lap because she was hit by a hockey puck on a hockey game. But at the graduation party V makes some mistakes and it seems she is losing Sam forever. Now she has lost and her mom and her wannabe boyfriend. She definately doesn't want to end like her mom and spending as much boyfriends as she does. Then her mom invites her to spend the summer with her in Texas, and V steps in her car for a long car trip crisscross through American, in the hope she finally can see her mom again and forget Sam. But when she is almost in Texas, things change again..
Guyaholic is a hilarious girly YA novel. It is the first novel by Carolyn Mackler I've read and I really like it. You really felt sorry for V because how bad her mom threats her without her mom realising that she is very egocentric. This book takes you on a crazy road trip through America with V. A must read for every teen girl!
I have read the Dutch edition of this book, in Dutch it is called: Vriendjes, Vrijheid en Andere Valkuilen, which means: Boyfriends, freedom, and other traps, and this is the Dutch cover..