The Secret Life of It Girls [Paperback]

Dakota Lane (Author)

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About the Author

Dakota Lane is the author of two traditional novels for teen readers, Johnny Voodoo, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and The Orpheus Obsession. She is also the author/photographer of the visual novel The Secret Life of It Girls. She lives between a river and a mountain in Woodstock, New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (June 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416914927
• ISBN-13: 978-1416914921
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,430,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Teens Read Too, May 28, 2007

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TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Secret Life of It Girls (Paperback)

Fictional stories based on the life of "It Girls," this book takes us through the ups, downs, secrets, gossip, triumphs, tribulations, and general cattiness of life as one of the popular ones. For these It Girls, it doesn't matter who you trample on to get to the top, as long as you get there - and stay there.

These girls use boys like pawns. They keep their friends close only as long as they agree with everything they say, and when they don't, then there's usually some type of scandal involved. They flaunt their bodies, they have mouths like sailors, and they have their parents tricked into believing they're princesses.

THE SECRET LIFE OF IT GIRLS is not a pretty book. It is, supposedly, a fictionalized account of true-life stories. I'm hoping, both as a woman and a parent, that it's not indicative of what so-called "It Girls" are really like. To me, being popular doesn't equate being as downright horrible as the girls in this book are. They're vicious, they're rude, and they are no one that I would want to hang around with - or would want my daughter to hang around with.

I admit that the story is an insightful look into a world that I knew little about. It's also a look into a world that I don't think I WANT to know anything about. It's scary, it's at times horrifying, and, if it really is THE SECRET LIFE OF IT GIRLS, it makes me hope that being one of them never falls onto my daughter's to-do-list.

I have no doubt that this book will appeal to teen girls the world over, whether one of the popular crowd or someone just wishing to be an It Girl. Regardless, this is a candid look into that secret world that will hopefully leave you with something to think about.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very intresting. Tons of eye candy., August 13, 2007

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D. Shelton "YA book addict" (NYC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Secret Life of It Girls (Paperback)

I bought the book after first reading the description. It is basically a book of 13 stories about it girls. But not just about them. How their lives are, expirences, people who are affected by it girls. It has a very strong message in each story. Teen girls will love reading it because we can relate very much to what's going on in the story. The pages are finely decorated and it's just beautiful.