Bass Ackwards and Belly Up
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
For fans of the New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl and hit tv show The Sex Lives of College girls here is a smart and highly commercial first novel about four best friends who, after graduating high school, decide to postpone the standard college route to pursue their creative dreams.
Harper Waddle, Sophie Bushell, and Kate Foster are about to commit the ultimate suburban sin-bailing on college to pursue their dreams. Middlebury-bound Becca Winsberg is convinced her friends have gone insane? until they remind her she just might have a dream of her own. So what if their lives are bass-ackwards and belly up? They'll always have each other.
Harper is going to be the next Jane Austen. Or Sylvia Plath. Or Plum Sykes. Figuring out which should be easy. It's living with the lie she told her three best friends that's going to be hard.
Kate doesn't know exactly what she wants. But whatever it is, she won't find it at Harvard. Maybe the answer is in Paris, or Athens? or anywhere Kate can be someone besides the girl with perfect grades, perfect hair, and the perfect boyfriend.
Sophie is a star. She's already got the looks, the talent, and a list of demands for her dressing room. Now that she's wrangled a furnished guesthouse in Beverly Hills, it's only a matter of time before she's discovered. Unless she isn't.
Becca is dysfunctional. At least, her family is. Which is why she can't wait to flee the drama and get to college. But Becca's friends know she needs more than a spot on the Middlebury ski team and a cozy dorm room. They know she needs to fall in love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Teens stressing over college decisions will find much comic relief in this novel about four girlfriends in Boulder, Col. Becca, Sophie, Kate and Harper following their post-high-school dreams. The fun begins when Harper (who is too embarrassed to admit she has been rejected by the only college to which she applied) announces that instead of attending NYU, she's going to move into her parents' basement and "write the next Great American Novel." Much to her surprise, two of her buddies are inspired by her impulsive change of heart and decide to follow suit, ditching their collegiate plans to follow less conventional paths. Sophie opts to move to L.A. to become an actress; Kate plans to head for Europe in hopes of figuring out what it is she really wants in life. Only Becca, the most focused of the bunch, holds fast to her original plans: going to school at Middlebury with the intent of helping its ski team "keep its reputation as the best on the East Coast." Alternating the girls' perspectives, dynamic co-authors Craft and Fain wryly convey four different but equally bumpy rides toward adulthood. Full of romance and adventure, laughter and tears, their story is a vibrant reminder that veering from the straight and narrow road doesn't always lead to a dead end. Ages 15-up.
Customer Reviews
One of my favorites
If you love sisterhood of the traveling pants this is a must read. It's a little more grown up and the friends are a little quirkier. They are four childhood friends splitting apart to start their lives and chase their dreams. When one falls down the others are there to pick her up again. It's a testament to the power of friendship and the love that bring people together even when they're worlds apart.