Wessex Papers #3: Outsmart - Softcover

Parker, Daniel

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9780064407946: Wessex Papers #3: Outsmart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064407942 ISBN 13: 9780064407946

Publisher: HarperTeen, 2002

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Date: October 23
From: Headmaster Olsen
To: Pearson Ellis
Re: Winslow Ellis
Dear Mr. Ellis:
As you know, I've always held your son in the highest esteem. It pains me to have to inform you of his involvement in various illegal and immoral money-making schemes on the Wessex campus. Details attached.
Winslow is at a critical juncture in his education and can not afford any blemishes on his record. Toward that end, I am offering to overlook his transgressions in exchange for a donation of $300,000 to the enclosed account number.
I trust you will take care of this matter in a timely fashion.
Phillip Olsen
Headmaster

In the satisfying conclusion Sunday and Fred pull off the scam of the century -- and beat the blackmailers at their own game.

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About the Author:

Daniel Parker is the author of over twenty books for children and young adults. He lives in New York City with his wife, a dog, and a psychotic cat named Bootsie. He is a Leo. When he isn't writing, he is tirelessly traveling the world on a doomed mission to achieve rock-and-roll stardom. As of this date, his musical credits include the composition of bluegrass sound-track numbers for the film The Grave (starring a bloated Anthony Michael Hall) and a brief stint performing live rap music to baffled Filipino audiences in Hong Kong. Mr. Parker once worked in a cheese shop. He was fired.

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Reviewed with other titles in the Wessex Papers series.

Gr. 8-12. Unlike many paperback teen series titles that feature a self-contained story in each volume, the Wessex Papers series uses three volumes to tell one long, involved mystery. The first volume, Trust Falls, uses a lot of pages to introduce the main characters, including Sunday Winthrop (old-money rebel) and Fred Wright (middle-class rebel), and the complex social world of the ultrasnobbish Wessex Academy. Things pick up in Fallout, in which Sunday and Fred reveal their feelings for one another and discover an extortion scheme that reaches to the upper levels of the school administration. In the final volume, Sunday and Fred unmask the blackmailers and make their school more fair and just. Of course, most mysteries are fewer than 750 pages, and the story gets rather messy and convoluted in places. Yet many young readers will find a thrill in the vicarious plunge into the world of Wessex Academy, where the students indulge in all sorts of teenage vices (including some nonexplicit sex and drug and alcohol use) and sneak around the campus at night in their underwear and J. Crew pajamas. Todd Morning
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