Dirty Laundry
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the school:
The Winchester School of the Arts, nicknamed "The Laundromat" because it's where better schools send their "dirty laundry." Get kicked out of Exeter, Hotchkiss, or Choate? End up at Winchester.
the girl:
Carli, a gorgeous pigtailed Hollywood actress going undercover at Winchester to research her role.
the boy:
Fun (short for Fellini Udall Newport), an embittered senior and graffiti artist who was almost expelled—until his dad (and a lot of money) convinced the headmaster to let him work off his crime as Carli's assistant.
the problem:
Beautiful, talented senior Darcy Novak, one of the least screwed-up people at Winchester, has disappeared.
As Carli and Fun discover each other's hidden talents, there's a villain setting them up. Can they save Darcy—and themselves—or will they wash out?
Daniel Ehrenhaft
Daniel Ehrenhaft is the author of many books for teens, including the Edgar Award-winning Wessex Papers (under the pseudonym Daniel Parker), Dirty Laundry, and Drawing a Blank.
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Reviews for Dirty Laundry
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I found dirty laundry a really interesting book, I loved the way it was written going from 2 different peoples perspectives in each chapter. I also really enjoyed the story and found it really cool how the teen actress went undercover, pretending to be a boarding school student , the character she was cast as in her next big job. The book is about her time at the boarding school and all of the friends she makes as well as the fact that the head girl has gone missing and her and her friends plan to find her before its too late. I found that the characters really interesting because they were all kind of weird and as the story unraveled you find out more about them and what they had to do with the disappearance. Even though I loved reading this book and recommend it to teen girls there were some parts of the story where a bit too much was happening and I had to stop and think about what was going on just to clear my head abit.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Carli is an actress who's sent undercover to a boarding school to research a role. Fun is the son of the show's producer, and he's forced to act as her "assistant" while she's there. The only glitch is, a student disappeared before school started, so the campus is crawling with rumors. Carli, with Fun's help, decides to tries to unravel the mystery. Told in alternate voices.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Welcome to Winchester School of the Arts, a place where the dirty laundry of other boarding schools is sent, the kids who are too bad to go anywhere else.Enter Carli Gemz ("games"), a beautiful girl sent by the producer of her new TV show to learn about boarding school and being bad.Here's Fun (Fellini Udall Newport), the producer's son who is made to be Carli's assistant or else by his dad.Exit Darcy Novak, one of the good girls at Winchester. She's disappeared and the cops and school are a little lackadaisical about finding her.Now Carli is involved in finding Darcy, partly out of curiosity, partly to help her get out of a shame spiral, which is frequently has since her life is so perfect and she is so talented. And Fun is involved since he liked Darcy well enough and has to assist Carli in whatever she does. Welcome to Winchester where it's all Fun and Games.I liked this book. It was so funny and strange at the same time. Fun was a great character and his relationship to Carli was pretty good. There were a couple of things that threw me though. One was Carli's roommate, Miranda, and Fun's "crush" on her. It was a weird detail and didn't really gel with me. Another was Fun's roommate, Nails. He bothered me which I know he was suppose to but I wished more had been explained about him.I liked how they sort of accidentally solved the case. It was different from most mysteries where the "detective" intensely goes out looking for clues. The ending was a little wrapped up even for a mystery, but I'd like to see more from Carli and Fun.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Carli Gemz (pronounced "games") is a teen actress who has just landed a role in a new TV show: Private Nights. Since she'll be playing a bitchy teen queen and a boarding school, Carli is being enrolled undercover at the Winchester School of the Arts, an East coast boarding school where all the freaks, geeks, and would-be criminals are sent after being kicked out of more prestigious academies. With a reputation for harboring the "dirty laundry" of the social elite, Carli knows that the few weeks she'll be spending as Sheila Smith will be pretty wild, but she never imagined that, together with her boss's son (and her new personal assistant), she'd wind up investigating the disappearance and possible murder of Winchester's favorite student, Darcy Novak. Fun, the aforementioned son of Carli'a boss, is only still attending Winchester because of the money the school is getting from his dad for hosting Carli. He and his room-mate, Nails, would usually be up to no good, but with Carli on campus and the disappearance of Darcy, he has better things to do. Especially when it turns out that everyone is a suspect. Ehrenhaft's novel is part mystery part sattire, at times dark and at other times sweet. The characters are completely three-dimensional, and while they will surprise you, their motives and methods are realistic within the context of the wacky world of Winchester. This is not the sort of book that one can put down easily.