Freddie and Stella Got Hot
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Jenny Han meets Mean Girls in Freddie and Stella Got Hot, Maggie Horne's YA rom com about getting revenge and falling in love.
By the time the Beaumont-Gardiner Award is announced, everyone's going to hate Levi Preston. And they're going to love us.
Freddie and Stella are on a mission: take down their former best friend turned queen bee Levi Preston by depriving her of the one thing she wants more than anything: The Beaumont-Gardiner Award. Only the coolest, smartest, and - let’s face it - hottest girls win . . . so Freddie and Stella are going to have to get a whole lot cooler, smarter, and hotter.
At first, it seems to work – Freddie and Stella slowly manage to worm their way in with the cool girls. With every shopping date, agonizing salon appointment, and hot yoga class, the girls get closer to the in-crowd and Levi fades more and more into the background. The higher they rise, though, the more uneasy Freddie starts to feel. Stella’s gone from her lovable, goofy best friend to someone she barely recognizes, using her newfound power for evil at every opportunity. Soon, Freddie realizes she’s created a monster – and she needs Levi’s help to put a stop to it.
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Endearing mean girls keep the pages turning in a fresh and funny sapphic romance by Horne (Don't Let It Break Your Heart). Bisexual science whiz Stella and her newly out lesbian bestie, film-obsessed Freddie, are dismayed to realize that their former friend, popular lesbian homecoming queen Levi, seems destined to win their California all-girls high school's coveted college scholarship, awarded annually to one student as voted upon by the junior class. Still bitter that Levi abandoned them freshman year to climb the social ladder, wallflowers Stella and Freddie rebrand themselves as "mythical hot girls" to sabotage Levi's chances. But when Stella's schemes start adversely affecting innocent bystanders, Freddie enlists Levi's help in stopping her—and learns a secret that rekindles her own covert crush on Levi. Freddie's journey from "quirky sidekick" to seizer of the day (and the girl)—narrated in her breezy, fantastically facetious voice—steals the show, transforming the love-to-hate-'em mean girls into can't-help-but-root-for-'em protagonists in this snarky and tender love story. Intermittent callouts reference stereotypical tropes ("Hot girls are beloved by their teachers," "hot girls work out," "hot girls do brunch") for a cheeky effect. The trio read as white. Ages 14–up.
