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The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber
The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber
The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber
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The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber

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Mimi’s aiming to infiltrate her exclusive high school’s coolest clique, but it may not go as planned . . . “An irresistible read” (Booklist).
 
After the collapse of her parents’ marriage, Mimi Schulman leaves her mother in Houston to look after her befuddled photographer father in New York. She’s too preoccupied with family problems to think much about her new life. But then Mimi’s first hour at the Baldwin School—an institution where teachers offer psychoanalysis instead of grades and students hold cocktail parties in the bathroom between classes—leaves her spinning.
 
When her childhood best friend bets her she can’t befriend the “cool girls,” Mimi accepts the challenge—only to discover that social climbing in New York is no easy task. Fitting in with the popular girls back in Texas was nothing compared to joining Baldwin’s clique of raccoon-eyed waifs . . .
 
Rubbing shoulders with the offspring of diplomats and celebrities, all with secrets and dysfunctions, Mimi finds herself moving from one bizarre situation to the next—a fake-ID deli, a topless bar, a Jacuzzi in Trump Tower—and in the position of winning a bet that threatens to make her lose sight of herself, in this novel with lots of heart and a wicked sense of humor.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 30, 2005
ISBN9780547575803
The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber
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Lauren Mechling

Lauren Mechling is a senior editor at the Guardian US and has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New Yorker online, and Vogue, where she wrote a regular book column. She's worked as a crime reporter and metro columnist for the New York Sun and as features editor at the Wall Street Journal. She is also a young adult novelist. A graduate of Harvard College, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.

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    A cute story about a girl's struggle through Grade 10 at a new school in New York.
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    The book was alot better than I thought it would be. i didn't think that it would be intresting to me but it was. The characters are intresting and kept me wanting to know what was going to happen to them. Plus they were all so differant with so many differant types of personalities.

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