| The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber Contributor(s): Mechling, Lauren (Author), Moser, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618555196 ISBN-13: 9780618555192 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: With heart and a wicked sense of humor, the authors deliver an entertaining, coming-of-age story about friendship and betrayal, brutal honesty and its consequences, set in an elite Brooklyn high school where the cool girls aren't anything like sophomore Mimi expects. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004015767 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.44" W x 8.2" (0.62 lbs) 290 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Friendship |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 87468 Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After the collapse of her parents' marriage, Mimi Schulman leaves her mother in Houston to look after her befuddled photographer father in New York. Too preoccupied with family problems to think much about her new life, Mimi's first hour at The Baldwin School--an institution where teachers offer psychoanalysis in lieu of grades and students hold cocktail parties in the bathroom between classes--leaves her spinning. When Sam, her childhood best friend, bets her she can't befriend the "cool girls," Mimi accepts the challenge, only to discover that social climbing in New York is no easy task. Fitting in with the blond, all-American popular girls back in Texas was nothing compared to joining Baldwin's clique of raccoon-eyed waifs. Rubbing shoulders with the offspring of diplomats and celebrities, all with secrets and dysfunctions that put her own domestic worries to shame, Mimi finds herself in one bizarre situation to the next--a fake-ID deli, a topless bar, a jacuzzi in Trump Tower--and in the position of winning a bet that threatens to make her lose sight of herself. A coming-of-age story about friendship and betrayal, about brutal honesty and its consequences, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber is a novel with heart and a wicked sense of humor. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mechling, Lauren: - Lauren Mechling grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She writes a weekly column for the New York Sun and has written for several other publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Seventeen Magazine.Moser, Laura: - Laura Moser grew up in Houston, Texas. She is the author of a biography of Bette Davis and reviews books for various publications. |