### Product Description Dylan Monroe is the kind of chick females love to hate, but children and dogs mysteriously adore. Sheβs a material girl, living in a material world filled with diamonds, furs, limousines, celebrities, and private planes. To the world, she has it all, but behind closed doors,
Material Girls
β Scribed by Dimopoulos, Elaine
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
In this dystopian thriller, fashion is making everyone a victim: "A captivating and fast-paced ride" (Joelle Charbonneau, New York Timesβbestselling author of The Testing trilogy).
In Marla Klein and Ivy Wilde's world, teens are the gatekeepers of culture. A top fashion label employs sixteen-year-old Marla to dictate hot new clothing trends, while Ivy, a teen pop star, popularizes the garments that Marla approves.
Both girls are pawns in a calculated but seductive system of corporate control, and both begin to question their world's aggressive levels of consumption. Now they're joining forces to subversively resist and overturn the industry that controls every part of their lives . . .
Smart, provocative, and entertaining, this thrilling page-turner questions the cult-like mentality of fame and fashion. Are you in or are you out?
"Through its likable characters, sly humor, and smart, fast-moving...
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