Prada and Prejudice
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
A whimsical journey through time and fashion awaits in this enchanting young adult novel.
“The perfect mix of old-school style and modern-day sass!”—Kieran Scott, author of I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader and Geek Magnet
“If the shoe fits, wear it—and if you’re in the mood for an awesome romance, this is definitely the shoe for you.”—Lauren Myracle, New York Times bestselling author of TTYL
Callie is tired of being a clumsy geek-girl. So during a school trip to London she buys her ticket to popularity: a pair of real Prada pumps. But then she wobbles on the cobblestones, trips in her too-high heels, and conks her head. When she comes to, it’s the year 1815.
Luckily, she meets kindhearted Emily, who mistakes Callie for a long-lost friend. Sparks soon ignite—of the nice and not-so-nice variety—between Callie and Alex, the handsome but totally arrogant Duke of Harksbury. Too bad Alex seems to have something sinister up his ruffled sleeve . . .
Can Callie save Emily from a dire engagement, win a kiss from Alex, and prove to herself that she’s more than just a loud-mouth klutz before her time in the past is up?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Readers don't need to be Jane Austen fans to appreciate Hubbard's debut, a time-bending tale with some Pride and Prejudice elements. Awkward, plain-Jane teenager Callie is on a school trip abroad when she spies a pair of "totally classic" Prada shoes in a shop window and buys them on impulse, hoping to impress more popular girls on the trip. Unfortunately, moments after trying the shoes on, she trips, falls and blacks out. The next thing Callie knows, she is in 19th-century England, where she is mistaken for a duke's childhood friend arriving for an extended visit. With nowhere else to go, Callie stays at the duke's castle, and during the next four weeks, she becomes good friends with the duke's cousin, develops a love/hate relationship with the duke and shocks nearly everyone in the castle with her feminist ideology and numerous faux pas ("You could have heard a pin drop when I asked if they had ketchup," she says). Part comedy of manners, part romantic fantasy, this fast-reading, playful novel takes the idea of feeling out of place to a hilarious extreme. Ages 12 up.
