Self-proclaimed nobody CG Silverman sees her move to an upscale new school as her chance to be somebody different. Her devil-may-care attitude attracts the in-clique, and before CG realizes it, a routine game of truth or dare launches her to iconic status.
While this rebel image helps secure CG’s newfound popularity, it also propels her through a maze of unprecedented chaos, with each new lie and every dare opening doors that, in most cases, were better off left shut.
CG is on a collision course with disaster. Will she be able to keep up the façade? Or will the whole world find out she’s a fraud?
Lindsay Faith Rech, a newcomer to YA fiction, displays a unique ear for teen dialogue and the pain and humor that is part of surviving high school. The author of Losing It (Red Dress Ink, 2003) and Joyride (Red Dress Ink, 2004), both written for adults, Ms. Rech lives in Holland, Pennsylvania.
getting inEvery school has one. At my last school, it was Gina DiMarco, but she never cared much for me. Okay, fine, if you want to be a total stickler about it, she never even knew I existed. I guess it’s like that at most schools. The It girl only pays attention to the worthy ones, the inner circle, the worshipful flock who kneel at her feet, feeding off her every word like a pack of anorexic poodles. The rest of us are merely space fillers, extras in a tragically boring movie unimaginatively entitled High School. But if that’s true, then
what,I ask you, is this latest queen bee—the Gina DiMarco of Beaubridge High—doing talking to an invisible nobody like me? And smack dab in the middle of the cafeteria no less? Everyone knows that what happens in the cafeteria never
staysin the cafeteria. Is she looking to lose her tiara?
Hey, you’re new here, right? she asks.
She,of course, being the reigning duchess of teen suburbil³«
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