Footfree and Fancyloose - Softcover

Craft, Elizabeth; Fain, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316057967 ISBN 13: 9780316057967

Publisher: Poppy, 2009

Synopsis

Harper Waddle, Sophie Bushell, and Kate Foster committed the ultimate suburban sin: bailing on college to pursue their dreams. Their best friend, Becca Winsberg, took a more traditional path, but she's got dreams of her own. Now the year is half-way through and their dreams seem within reach. Well, almost.

Harper has managed to gain the freshman fifteen without ever being a freshman. Now, after months of procrastination and an almost-affair with her former English teacher, she's determined to finally write the "Next Great American Novel." Even if she has to lock herself in her basement bathroom to do it.

Sophie is living the good life in a Beverly Hills guesthouse. But when circumstances change, and she's forced to crash on her frenemy Sam's couch, bad auditions are the least of her troubles.

Kate is doing aid work in Ethiopia, where she encounters family ghosts - along with Darby, the handsome but antagonistic Princetonian who assumes she's a dizzy blonde. Kate is out to prove Darby wrong... and reunite two sisters in the process.

And when Becca finally emerges from her wintry lovers' nest, it seems her relationship with Stuart isn't as cozy as she thought.

Even if the year that's changing everything has sometimes been less than dreamy, these four best friends will always have each other.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain wrote their first piece together when they were fifteen - a feature on Kansas City delis for their high school newspaper. They now live in Los Angeles, where Sarah and Liz are currently Writer-Producers on the Emmy-award winning show "The Shield" and James Patterson's upcoming "Women's Murder Detective Club" TV series debuting this fall on ABC.
Liz and Sarah's first novel, Bass Ackwards and Belly Up, was published by Little, Brown in May 2006, and the paperback published in April 2007.

From School Library Journal

Grade 10 Up—The "Year of Dreams" continues for Harper, Kate, Becca, and Sophie, BFF. In Bass Ackwards and Belly Up (Little, Brown, 2006), Harper, because she did not get into NYU, told a little white lie—that she decided to take a year off before college to follow her dream to write a novel. Admiring her bravery, her best friends make a pact to follow their own aspirations—Becca wants to fall in love, Sophie wants to be an actress, and Kate dumps her acceptance to Harvard to find herself by backpacking through Europe. The story continues in this sequel as the girls persist in their efforts while pursuing romantic interests. The events are related through each protagonist's point of view, and the narrative is filled with the label-dropping shallowness of the day. There are sex scenes, strong language, and lots of cute boys. Settings such as a hip Denver coffee shop, Hollywood, and a private college in Vermont, with a humanitarian trip to Ethiopia thrown in, should entice plenty of eager readers, especially fans of the first book. While the story does move quickly and has a decent story line, it's not worthy of the A-list of chick lit.—Angela J. Reynolds, Annapolis Valley Regional Library, Bridgetown, NS, Canada
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About this edition

• Publisher: Poppy
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0316057967
• ISBN 13: 9780316057967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 423