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In this YA heist novel, a society girl with a sketchy past leads a crew of juvie kids in using their criminal skills for good.

Andrea Faraday is junior class valedictorian at the exclusive Woodruff School, where she was voted Most Likely to Do Everything Right. But looks can be deceiving. When her parents disappear, her life--and her Perfect Girl charade--begins to crumble, and her scheme to put things right just takes the situation from bad to so much worse. Pretty soon she's struck up the world's least likely friendship with the juvenile delinquents at Justice Academy, the last exit on the road to jail--and the first stop on the way out.

If she were telling it straight, friendship might not be the right word to describe their alliance, since Drea and her new associates could not be more different. She's rich and privileged; they're broke and, well, criminal. But Drea's got a secret: she has more in common with the juvie kids than they'd ever suspect. When it turns out they share a common enemy, Drea suggests they join forces to set things right. Sometimes, to save the day, a good girl's gotta be bad.

KIMBERLY REID is the author of the Langdon Prep young adult mystery series starting with My Own Worst Frenemy, and the Colorado Book Award-winning memoir No Place Safe. Most of Reid's family is in the crime-fighting business--her mother was a homicide detective, and her husband runs a city courtroom--so she can't help but write crime fiction, knowing she'll never run out of stories. She currently lives near Denver, Colorado, but her roots are firmlyplanted in Georgia clay and she still calls Atlanta home.