The Girl I Wanted to Be (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743285186)

As a lowly freshman named for "The King," Presley Moran walks high school corridors paved with the stuff of family legend. Her cousin Barry, a senior heartthrob and brainy varsity letterman, insists that looking good on paper is the key to success. But Presley's young aunt Betsi, a former homecoming queen, has her own ideas about good looks and how to use them.

"Can you keep a secret?" Betsi asks Presley, who, at age fourteen, is eager for entr馥 into the adult world of beauty, attraction, and romance. But as Presley is about to discover, some secrets should never be revealed. Will the illicit thrill of being a trusted confidante, privy to the details of muddled entanglements and incompatible desires, be worth the consequences of guilt by association?

Propelled by the crash of falling idols, The Girl I Wanted to Be is a timeless and true portrait of passion, loss, and hard-won wisdom.

Author: Sarah Grace McCandless
ISBN-10: 0743285182
ISBN-13: 9780743285186
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2006
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.62w x 0.46d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 114399 / Girl I Wanted to Be: A Novel


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/03/2006 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2006 pg. 373
Booklist 04/15/2006 pg. 29
Library Journal 05/01/2006 pg. 80
Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/2007 pg. 11