The Ashley Project

Informationen zum Autor Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 bestselling author of books for readers of all ages, including the Witches of East End, Blue Bloods, and Descendants series. Klappentext Think you know mean girls? Meet the Ashleys in this start to a fashion-savvy series from bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.Meet The Ashleys. Ashley Spencer, Ashley "Lili” Li and Ashley "A. A.” Alioto are the queen bees of Miss Gambles Preparatory School for Girls. They have it all: they're rich, gorgeous, impeccably fashion forward, and everyone wants to be them. And then there's Lauren Page. Former loser, she's changed her ways now that her father's company went public last month. Lauren's upgraded to a mansion in Pacific Heights with a view of the marina and a Bentley with a driver named Thomas. Last year she was a nobody, but this year is going to be totally different. Lauren's gone from geek to goddess, bargain-basement cast-offs to off-the runway couture... and she's had enough of the current regime. Her parents tried, but they got it wrong: her name is Lauren, but she's so obviously an Ashley. [The Ashley Project was originally published as The Ashleys and now features a new cover and title.] Leseprobe The Ashley Project 1 THE NOT-SO-NEW GIRL LAUREN PAGE SMOOTHED DOWN THE folds of her short plaid skirt and crossed her legs so that she could admire the shiny new black-and-white Chanel spectator oxfords on her feet a little better. They looked so cute with her thick cashmere socks scrunched down just above the ankle, she thought. She’d been wearing the same green plaid uniform to Miss Gamble’s all her life, but she was in the upper form now—seventh grade—which meant saying good-bye to her boring old Buster Browns and hello to the first boy-girl dance with the hotties from Gregory Hall, which was only three weeks away. And as far as she was concerned, upper form meant a whole new Lauren. She leaned back on the plush, baby-soft leather seat in her dad’s sparkling new Tesla and pressed a button that flipped a mirror on the console in front of her. Sometimes she couldn’t believe it herself. The girl who smiled back from the mirror looked nothing like the old Lauren. This one had pin-straight chestnut brown hair that fell softly on her shoulders and shone with reddish and caramel gold highlights, a killer spray tan, and cheekbones so sharp they could cut ice. Lauren felt a little like those young starlets who lost so much weight and started looking so hot that people whispered they’d had major plastic surgery. Lauren turned her head sideways to try and get a good look at her profile. Her nose certainly looked different now that her baby fat had melted away. “Nervous?” a voice asked from the driver’s seat. Lauren stopped preening and raised a carefully plucked-by-Anastasia eyebrow at the speaker via the rearview mirror. “Should I be?” she asked Dex, her father’s seventeen-year-old intern and personal pet project who, when he wasn’t dreaming up social media schemes for her father as part of his “regular” job, was part brother, part bodyguard, and full-time chauffeur. “Maybe, because you’re still ugly.” Dex laughed. “Takes one to know one,” Lauren said, sticking her tongue out at him and feeling suddenly anxious. What if Dex was right? She checked the mirror again. A smoldering, gray-eyed brunette beauty glared back at her. No, there was no way. He was just being a smart-ass as usual. “You shouldn’t care so much what people think. Seriously, it’s not attractive,” he said, as he took a sharp turn down a curve and Lauren had to clutch at the hand rest to keep from sliding down the length of the backseat. “Um, did Dr. Phil die or something? Because ‘Dr. Dex’ has a slightly stupid ...

Product details

• Authors: Melissa de La Cruz
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 13
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2014
• EAN: 9781442490338
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-9033-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Ashley Project; Ashley Project
• Subject: Children's and young people's books