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Zusatztext " The compelling subject and likable characters will please drama-loving fans."-- Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Courtney Sheinmel is a chocolate-lover, mac and cheese expert, mom to Archer, and the author of nearly thirty books for kids and teens, including the acclaimed Stella Batts and My Pet Slime series for young readers. Her book She Persisted: Helen Keller was part of Chelsea Clinton’s She Persisted series. Courtney received a National Scholastic Educator Award for her work as a writing instructor at the nonprofit Writopia Lab. Visit her online at CourtneySheinmel.com. Klappentext When Carly Wheeler's mother is arrested for embezzling! Carly's perfect life begins to fall apart as friends at her prestigious private school stop talking to her! her beloved stepfather starts worrying about finances! and her image of herself and her family changes. chapter one For the past three years my best friend, Annie, and I have had the coolest tradition on Teacher Organization Day. I guess I should explain what Teacher Organization Day even is: It’s this random day at the end of September when classes are canceled and the teachers have a day to catch up on their work. I really don’t get the reason for it; honestly, I think it’s just an excuse for the school administration to have a three-day weekend. We go to a private school called Preston Day School. Tuition is pretty steep, which goes along with my stepfather’s theory that the more you pay for a school, the more vacation days you get. He may be right about that— my stepsister and stepbrother go to public school, and they never have days off for things like Teacher Organization Day. Also, their winter and spring breaks are shorter, and their school gets out two weeks after ours does in June. But whatever the reason, I’m not going to complain about it. All that matters to me is that we have that Monday off. So this is our tradition: My mom takes Annie and me to work with her. We’ve been doing it ever since the fourth grade. I know it doesn’t sound like much of a tradition. Actually, it probably sounds lame to hang out at the place where your mother works, and maybe that’s how it would be if you were going to your mother’s office. But my mom has a job where it’s cool to go for the day—in fact she has the coolest job of all the parents I know. She works on the set of the soap opera Lovelock Falls . In case you haven’t heard of it, Lovelock Falls is a made-up town, and the show is about all the people who live there. It’s filmed in Manhattan, which is about an hour away from where we live. When we go, the crew totally treats us like we’re celebrities ourselves. We get to go to the hair and makeup room and get made up just like the actors do, and then we watch the filming and the set changes. In between scenes the real actors come up and talk to us, and we get our pictures taken with everyone. They also have this area called Craft Services, where there’s so much food you can’t even believe it. Basically, any kind of dish you can imagine is there—including tons of desserts. I sort of wonder how all the actresses on the show stay so super thin, since they can eat at Craft Services all day long. But I think they have personal trainers. Mom is a stylist on Lovelock Falls , and she handles the wardrobe for six of the women on the show, including the star, Ally Jaron. Ally plays Violet van Ryan. So far she’s been almost murdered twice, been in a coma, and had four different weddings—two of them to the same guy. His character, Kyle Shepherd, has amnesia right now, so he doesn’t even remember that she left him for the second time, right after she found out that he was a compulsive gambler and had gambled away most of her fortune. Violet also has ten-year-old twins, and one of them just came back from the dead. And ...
