The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life: Splashproof Beach Read! 100% Waterproof Cover

Lauren Myracle

Puffin Books, 2007 - Juvenile Fiction - 149 pages

After she goes to school with her mother's underwear stuck to her pants by static cling, a humiliated Alli thinks her chances of getting into the seventh-grade clique are forever ruined, but when the impossible happens and she is brought into the inner-circle, Alli suddenly reevaluates her priorities after she becomes personally acquainted with the popular people. Reprint.

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User Review  - skraftdesigns - LibraryThing

I found this book enjoyable because the author was able to evoke the excitement and drama of the seventh grade. It's fun when the popular girls start to notice you, but how can you blend this with ...

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User Review  - PKPam - LibraryThing

Very true to life seventh grade social scene... Ugh. Maybe if I were a middle schooler embroiled in the drama, I could have enjoyed it, but since I spend so much of my time mediating the drama and trying to keep it from turning toxic... not so much.

About the author

Lauren Myracle is an American author of YA fiction. She was born on May 15, 1969, in Brevard, North Carolina and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received her BA in English and Psychology. After graduation, she taught middle-school in Georgia and participated in an exchange and teaching program (JET) in Japan. She would go on to earn an MA in English from Colorado State University and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. Since her first novel, Kissing Kate, was published in 2003, Myracle has written numerous books and series including: the Internet Girls series, The Winnie Years, Flower Power, the Life of Ty and the Wishing Series.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life: Splashproof Beach Read! 100% Waterproof Cover
• Author: Lauren Myracle
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Puffin Books, 2007
• ISBN: 0142408611, 9780142408612
• Length: 149 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Adolescence