The Cannibals
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Publisher Description
"Unlike me, life isn't always pretty," says Tiffany Spratt—a cheerleader destined for fame who will do anything to get there
Tiffany is definitely glad that the best-looking boy in the universe just transferred to her high school. Her boyfriend, Wally, got caught hacking into the Pentagon's computer system and was sent to boarding school, so she almost didn't have a date for the Homecoming dance! But Tiffany knows that she'll look fabulous next to her new boyfriend, Cannibal MacLaine—at least she thinks he said his name was Cannibal. Sure, it's an incredibly unusual name, but then, he is from Los Angeles.
Then something even more exciting happens: A major Hollywood director wants to film a horror movie right in their school! Not everyone is as pleased as Tiffany though—in fact, her own mother is leading protests against the plan—but Tiffany is Head Yell Leader at Hi High, so she gets the chamber of commerce on her side. The movie studio signs the contract, and everything is going to be perfect . . . if it doesn't turn into a perfect nightmare first.
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Grant (Mary Wolf) takes a breather from her sobering YA fiction to serve up a trenchant satire. Set a decade or two in the future, the story is breathlessly narrated by headstrong 17-year-old Tiffany Spratt, who is videotaping her journal for a school assignment and for posterity, because she is certain she'll be famous. Right away she falls for a handsome new student whose name, Campbell, she mistakes for Cannibal, which she instantly decides to call her clique at Hiram Johnson High ("They should make a show about ourschool," she enthuses. "They could call it Hi Highand it would be all about me and The Girls and our exciting adventures as cheerleaders, and Cannibal could play my boyfriend... and Wally will just have to get used to it"). Tiffany's attempts to lure the ultra cool, highly principled Campbell into a "real" kiss run alongside her campaign to persuade the school board to allow a teen vampire film to be shot at her school she just knows it will be her big break. Grant points the finger at all sorts of "cannibals" in a culture of consumption, from commercial sponsors of school equipment to the totally outr (e.g., the Jerry Springer style talk show host is a former U.S. president) as she keeps Tiffany's slyly skewed platitudes flowing ("I know what it's like to feel hopeless... but every cloud has a silver lining, and it's always darkest before the storm"). A solid comedy with bite. Ages 12-up.
