Girls on Film: An A-List Novel - Softcover

Dean, Zoey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316734756 ISBN 13: 9780316734752

Publisher: Poppy, 2004

Synopsis

Girls on Film is the wickedly funny and risqué sequel to the bestselling A-List that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati.

Seventeen year-old Anna ("pronounced Aaaanah") Percy has moved from posh Manhattan to the even more posh Beverly Hills, California, where she's living with her estranged dad for the rest of the school year while her mother travels to Europe with a friend. The fast times of Beverly Hills most beautiful and glamorous people drive the page-turning action of this irresistible, stylishly written novel.

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About the Author

Zoey Dean is the author of the national bestselling A-List and her adult novel How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls is now a CW original TV series entitled Privileged.

Reviews

Grade 9 Up-The sequel to the The A-List (Little, Brown, 2003) is a combination of Sex and the City and The Women, complete with backbiting, sabotage, gossip, and scheming set in La La land where overprivileged, poor-little-rich-girls endlessly indulge themselves. Though the issues and scenes are current, the book reads like fantasy as this much intrigue would wear out even the most devious, superficial girl-on-the-go. The one stable figure in this milieu is Anna Percy, an East-Coast transplant who ventures to California to change her good-girl image, but who finds that she doesn't have the stomach for the escapades of her peers. Trying to get over her powerful crush on Ben Birnbaum, a guy she views as all wrong for her, and attempting to settle with Adam, the good guy who just doesn't light her fire, Anna is caught between her heart, body, and mind. Dean's dialogue is flip and slick, and all of the characters have a rapid-fire wit that makes for page-turning, guilty pleasure. Girls on Film is a fast-clipped, juicy read that picks up where The A-List left off, and those who haven't read the first installment are quickly brought up to speed. Irresistible mind candy that teens will devour.
Tracy Karbel, Glenside Public Library District, Glendale Heights, IL
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Edition details

• Publisher: Poppy
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316734756
• ISBN 13: 9780316734752
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256