The Dirt Diary - Brossura

Staniszewski, Anna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1402286368 ISBN 13: 9781402286360

Casa editrice: Sourcebooks Young Readers, 2014

Riassunto

Eighth grade never smelled so bad

Rachel can't believe she has to give up her Saturdays to scrubbing other people's toilets. So. Gross. But she kinda, sorta stole $287.22 from her college fund that she's got to pay back ASAP or her mom will ground her for life. Which is even worse than working for her mother's new cleaning business. Maybe. After all, becoming a maid is definitely not going to help her already loserish reputation.

But Rachel picks up more than smelly socks on the job. As maid to some of the most popular kids in school, Rachel suddenly has all the dirt on the 8th grade in-crowd. Her formerly boring diary is now filled with juicy secrets. And when her crush offers to pay her to spy on his girlfriend, Rachel has to decide if she's willing to get her hands dirty...

"Holy fried onion rings! Fun from beginning to end." —Wendy Mass, New York Times bestselling author of 11 Birthdays and The Candymakers

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Recensione

Confidently addressing a number of common tween troubles that include bullying, parental divorce, and peer pressure, Staniszewski (the My Very UnFairy Tale Life series) introduces a determined eighth-grader desperate to get her separated parents back together in this humorous problem novel. It isn t the love of bleach and toilet brushes that drives Rachel Lee to help her mother with her weekend cleaning business. Rachel needs money fast to replace the $300 she borrowed from her college-fund account in order to visit her father in Florida and talk some sense into him, hoping to persuade him to come home. One unexpected bonus of her new job is gaining access to the homes of some of her classmates. While cleaning up their messes, Rachel discovers a few dirty little secrets ammunition that could bring her extra cash, win her the notice of the boy of her dreams, and take down her A-lister nemesis. Predictably, Rachel s schemes cause more pain than gain, but readers will likely forgive her errors in judgment as she sincerely attempts to make amends. Ages 10 14 --Publishers Weekly

L'autore

ANNA STANISZEWSKI lives outside of Boston with her husband and an adorably crazy dog. She was a Writer-in-Residence at the Boston Public Library and a winner of the PEN New England Discovery Award. She is also the author of the My Very UnFairy Tale Life series. When she's not writing, Anna spends her time teaching, reading, and not cleaning her house.

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• Editore: Sourcebooks Young Readers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1402286368
• ISBN 13: 9781402286360
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 246