Lucky

By Rachel Vail

Price: $9.99

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Lucky

By Rachel Vail

Price: $9.99

About the Book

It’s all good . . . and lucky Phoebe Avery plans to celebrate by throwing an end-of-the-year bash with her four closest friends. Everything will be perfect—from the guest list to the fashion photographer to the engraved invitations. The only thing left to do is find the perfect dress . . . until Phoebe goes from having it all to hiding all she’s lost.

Phoebe’s older sisters warn her to keep the family’s crisis totally secret. Unfortunately, her alpha-girl best friend looks increasingly suspicious, and Phoebe’s crush starts sending seriously mixed signals. Phoebe tries hard to keep smiling, but when her mother is humiliated in Neiman Marcus while buying Phoebe that perfect dress and her father decides to cancel her party, she panics. How far will she go to keep up her image as a lucky girl?

With lucky, Rachel Vail begins a powerful sisterhood trilogy, comprised of one book for each of the three fascinating Avery sisters, with all their secrets laid bare during the year that completely changes their lives. Phoebe is the youngest; her story combines first love and flip-flops, friendship and sisterhood, humor and tears. Breezy, witty, and poignant, lucky is Rachel Vail at her breathtaking best.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780061858246
Imprint: HarperCollins
On Sale: Apr 28, 2009
List price: $9.99
No of pages: 256
Trim Size:
BISAC 1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age *
BISAC 2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship *
BISAC 3: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Humorous / General *

Rachel Vail

Biography

Rachel Vail is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed novels If We Kiss and Lucky, Gorgeous, and Brilliant (the Avery sisters trilogy) and more than a dozen other novels for young teens, including the Friendship Ring series. She has also written many beloved picture books, including Piggy Bunny and Sometimes I’m Bombaloo, and two hit novels for elementary school kids, Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters and Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom. The author lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.

Reviews

“This is superior for its realism, its moderation, and its understated complexity of characters and relationships. Readers will drink up the drama and impatiently await the planned follow up titles.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)

“Vail (You, Maybe) again demonstrates a penetrating insight into the concerns of young teen girls, this time upending the conventions of the rich-girl novel… Readers will absorb this in one fell swoop.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Kindness and understanding emerge in unexpected, fresh, and satisfying ways, and readers will be looking forward to finding out what lies ahead for the Avery family” — School Library Journal

About the Book

It’s all good . . . and lucky Phoebe Avery plans to celebrate by throwing an end-of-the-year bash with her four closest friends. Everything will be perfect—from the guest list to the fashion photographer to the engraved invitations. The only thing left to do is find the perfect dress . . . until Phoebe goes from having it all to hiding all she’s lost.

Phoebe’s older sisters warn her to keep the family’s crisis totally secret. Unfortunately, her alpha-girl best friend looks increasingly suspicious, and Phoebe’s crush starts sending seriously mixed signals. Phoebe tries hard to keep smiling, but when her mother is humiliated in Neiman Marcus while buying Phoebe that perfect dress and her father decides to cancel her party, she panics. How far will she go to keep up her image as a lucky girl?

With lucky, Rachel Vail begins a powerful sisterhood trilogy, comprised of one book for each of the three fascinating Avery sisters, with all their secrets laid bare during the year that completely changes their lives. Phoebe is the youngest; her story combines first love and flip-flops, friendship and sisterhood, humor and tears. Breezy, witty, and poignant, lucky is Rachel Vail at her breathtaking best.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780061858246
Imprint: HarperCollins
On Sale: Apr 28, 2009
List price: $9.99
No of pages: 256
Trim Size:
BISAC 1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age *
BISAC 2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship *
BISAC 3: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Humorous / General *

Rachel Vail

Biography

Rachel Vail is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed novels If We Kiss and Lucky, Gorgeous, and Brilliant (the Avery sisters trilogy) and more than a dozen other novels for young teens, including the Friendship Ring series. She has also written many beloved picture books, including Piggy Bunny and Sometimes I’m Bombaloo, and two hit novels for elementary school kids, Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters and Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom. The author lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.

Reviews

“This is superior for its realism, its moderation, and its understated complexity of characters and relationships. Readers will drink up the drama and impatiently await the planned follow up titles.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)

“Vail (You, Maybe) again demonstrates a penetrating insight into the concerns of young teen girls, this time upending the conventions of the rich-girl novel… Readers will absorb this in one fell swoop.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Kindness and understanding emerge in unexpected, fresh, and satisfying ways, and readers will be looking forward to finding out what lies ahead for the Avery family” — School Library Journal

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