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Grade 7-10–Calypso, an LA teenager with movie-industry parents, attends a posh British boarding school. Having no title and no landed-gentry relatives, she has a hard time fitting in. So when she pretends that her mother's gay personal assistant is her new boyfriend, her popularity improves. Not only do the other girls make a fuss over her new guy, but the teen also gains self-confidence and the prince's attention during a fencing match. He starts calling her cell phone and they begin a budding romance. One big problem–Honey, one of the most popular girls in school, also has her eye on him, and she starts to make life truly miserable for Calypso. The story is jam-packed with posh toffs, true friends, late-night sneak outs for vodka drinking, silly fads, English slang, and plenty of boarding-school antics. Budding Anglophiles can add "pulling fit boys" (a phrase that basically translates to "making out with hot guys") to their lexicon, and will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book. The story is milder than Louise Rennison's stories about Georgia Nicolson (HarperCollins) but similar in tone and style; fans of Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girl" series and Zoey Dean's "A-List" series (both Little, Brown) should enjoy it.–Angela J. Reynolds, Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Hillsboro, OR
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When Calypso returns from Los Angeles to her English boarding school for the summer term, she is determined to fit in with the popular crowd. Her plan is to pretend her mother's gay assistant back home is her boyfriend. And to her surprise, the trick works...at least at first. She makes a whole batch of new friends, and even finds herself winning the unwritten contest to woo the prince at the boys' school next door. But one girl, Honey, undermines all her efforts. When Calypso and Prince Freddy end up in the tabloids and everything seems set to go down the drain, it's Calypso's parents and sense of humor that save her from utter humiliation.
A fast-paced, laugh-out-loud-funny look at fitting in while still standing out...
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Grade 7-10–Calypso, an LA teenager with movie-industry parents, attends a posh British boarding school. Having no title and no landed-gentry relatives, she has a hard time fitting in. So when she pretends that her mother's gay personal assistant is her new boyfriend, her popularity improves. Not only do the other girls make a fuss over her new guy, but the teen also gains self-confidence and the prince's attention during a fencing match. He starts calling her cell phone and they begin a budding romance. One big problem–Honey, one of the most popular girls in school, also has her eye on him, and she starts to make life truly miserable for Calypso. The story is jam-packed with posh toffs, true friends, late-night sneak outs for vodka drinking, silly fads, English slang, and plenty of boarding-school antics. Budding Anglophiles can add "pulling fit boys" (a phrase that basically translates to "making out with hot guys") to their lexicon, and will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book. The story is milder than Louise Rennison's stories about Georgia Nicolson (HarperCollins) but similar in tone and style; fans of Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girl" series and Zoey Dean's "A-List" series (both Little, Brown) should enjoy it.–Angela J. Reynolds, Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Hillsboro, OR
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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When Calypso returns from Los Angeles to her English boarding school for the summer term, she is determined to fit in with the popular crowd. Her plan is to pretend her mother's gay assistant back home is her boyfriend. And to her surprise, the trick works...at least at first. She makes a whole batch of new friends, and even finds herself winning the unwritten contest to woo the prince at the boys' school next door. But one girl, Honey, undermines all her efforts. When Calypso and Prince Freddy end up in the tabloids and everything seems set to go down the drain, it's Calypso's parents and sense of humor that save her from utter humiliation.
A fast-paced, laugh-out-loud-funny look at fitting in while still standing out...
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cool pod, fencing salle, writing salon, fish nuggets, pulling boys, fit boys, cool girls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saint Augustine, Miss Cribbe, Sister Constance, Sister Regina, Prince Freddie, Professor Sullivan, Dorothy Parker, Sister Dumpster, Nun of Your Business, Nancy Mitford, Kings Road, Lower Sixth, Los Angeles, Year Seven, Georgina Castle Orpington, Honey O'Hare, Puller's Woods, Sister Hillary, Sister Veronica, Body Shop Specials, Calypso Kelly, Miss Kelly, Jimmy Choo, Mars Bar, Miss Castle Orpington New!
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Talk about random. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cool pod, fencing salle, writing salon, fish nuggets, pulling boys, fit boys, cool girls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saint Augustine, Miss Cribbe, Sister Constance, Sister Regina, Prince Freddie, Professor Sullivan, Dorothy Parker, Sister Dumpster, Nun of Your Business, Nancy Mitford, Kings Road, Lower Sixth, Los Angeles, Year Seven, Georgina Castle Orpington, Honey O'Hare, Puller's Woods, Sister Hillary, Sister Veronica, Body Shop Specials, Calypso Kelly, Miss Kelly, Jimmy Choo, Mars Bar, Miss Castle Orpington New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Talent to Annoy: Essays, Articles and Reviews 1929-1968 by Nancy Mitford on page 112
- Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford on page 111
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