Rich Girl: A BFF Novel by Carol Culver
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- Age Range: Young Adult
- Pub. Date: January 2008
- 240pp
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Paperback, 240pp
- Age Range: Young Adult
- Series: BFF Series
- ISBN-13: 9780425219157
- ISBN: 0425219151
Synopsis
At an exclusive school like Manderly Prep, you really need your BFFs to get you through.
Victoria Lee, who spent her childhood in Hong Kong, has been transplanted to her parents' McMansion-unsupervised. Anyone else would think they were dreaming, but for Victoria, it's closer to a nightmare. Life alone in a big house can make you feel really empty.
Victoria feels like she's stepped out of the book she has to read for Brit Lit, A Tale of Two Cities. And it's not just Hong Kong vs. San Francisco. It's her parents' Ivy League dreams vs. her own dream of fashion school. And the snotty kids at Manderley Prep vs. her real friends, Cindy and Maggie. Then there's her crush Steve, who doesn't even notice her anymore.
She doesn't even feel at home at home-since the housekeeper's son, Gabe, acts like Victoria's very breath is destroying his precious environment. Maybe he's got a point. Maybe Victoria is miles from where she really belongs.
Biography
Carol Culver is from the Bay Area and is part of the Fog City Divas. She writes bestselling category romances for Silhouette as Carol Grace. This is the second book in her first Young Adult series.
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Reviewed by The Compulsive Reader for TeensReadToo.comby TeensReadToo
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November 14, 2008:
Victoria Lee is living every teenager's dream: she's beautiful, rich, and she has a whole mansion to herself while she attends Manderley Prep in San Francisco and her parents run the family business back in her home city of Hong Kong.
Gabe Thomas's mom's employers are moving across the country, and, unwilling to uproot him, she accepts a job as housekeeper for an absentee couple and their teenage daughter. For eco-conscience Gabe, this means a new house next door to a snotty rich girl and a new school full of snotty rich and wasteful kids.
And when Victoria and Gabe are thrown together, there are sure to be sparks...
Don't be fooled by the title. RICH GIRL is not your run-of-the-mill young adult novel. Victoria's values are true, and her honesty and her lack of an egotistical and materialistic nature will make her an instant favorite. Readers will eagerly devour Victoria's valiant attempts at being a normal American teenager, while at the same time sympathizing with her with her and her many blunders. Gabe is also a wonderfully unique character, a cool relief from the many of stale male leads.
RICH GIRL contains all of the essentials for this brand of young adult story: hot guys, mean girls (and guys!), best friends, and one big party. This exciting second BFF book is a fun break from the norm in what looks to be a promising series.
an entertaining taleby harstan
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December 26, 2007: Victoria Lee grew up in Hong Kong, but currently the teen lives in her family?s Mcmansion in San Francisco sans parents. She attends the exclusive Manderley Prep, but though her family is wealthy she feels like an outsider. Whereas most teens would love to be on their own, Victoria feels lonely as she has no friends at school and nothing at home. Worse than the fact that her parents want her to go Ivy while she wants to attend fashion school, she likes student Steve Heller, but he ignores her.------------- Gabe Thomas is confused as he has no scholarship yet his single mom a housekeeper pays his tuition to attend Manderley Prep. He wants to know how with his theory being that his unknown father is connected to the school. He likes Victoria as he sees her as a fellow outsider, but frowns on her efforts to join the in crowd since she was nominated to run for class treasurer as she plans the teen party of the century at her Mcmansion.------------ The second BFF teen tale (see MANDERLEY PREP) is an entertaining tale of a depressed lonely RICH GIRL trying to become popular at all cost. Victoria?s efforts to be in is compared to that of Gabe, who flaunts being out. Young adult readers will appreciate this fine character study of how far someone will go to satisfy the psychological need to belong.------------- Harriet Klausner
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