Prep School Confidential

✍ Scribed by Taylor, Kara

• Book ID: 109830735
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 513 KB
• Series: Prep School Confidential 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250017598

✦ Synopsis

"This book rocks! Scandalously delicious in the same vein as Pretty Little Liars and Revenge, with a wickedly clever plot that kept me guessing right up until the end." -- Gemma Halliday, New York Times bestselling author of Honeymoon in High Heels

Anne Dowling practically runs her exclusive academy on New Yorks Upper East Sidethat is, until she accidentally burns part of it down and gets sent to a prestigious boarding school outside of Boston.Determined to make it back to New York, Anne could care less about making friends at the preppy Wheatley School. That is, until her roommate, Isabellas body is found in the woods behind the school.When everyone else is oddly silent, Anne becomes determined to uncover the truth no matter how many rules she has to break to do it. With the help of Isabellas twin brother Anthony, and acute classmate named Brent, Anne discovers that Isabella wasnt quite the innocent nerdy girl she pretended to be. But someone will do anything to stop Annes snooping in this fast-paced, unputdownable readeven if it means framing her for Isabellas murder.

Kara Taylor's breathtaking debut reads like Gossip Girl crossed with Twin Peaksin an enveloping start to the Prep School Confidential series.

"A whirlwind of secrets, lies, and scandals. I whipped through the pages, frantic to discover the killer." Jill Hathaway, author of Slide

"Fast-paced, suspenseful and scarily believable. It will keep you guessing as you race to the end!" -- Daisy Whitney, author of The Mockingbirds and When You Were Here

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From Publishers Weekly

Trouble seems to follow high school junior Anne Dowling wherever she goes. In this case, it's from a New York City prep school (she was kicked out for accidentally setting the auditorium on fire) to Wheatley Prep outside Boston. Anne is accustomed to getting away with dubious behavior, but what she's not is preppy, a snob, or old money, which makes her an instant outsider and source of intrigue for her fellow classmates. When her secretive roommate is murdered, every student at school is a suspect, starting with witchy Alexis Westbrook and Anne herself, the last one to see Isabella alive. Anne's honest and whip-smart voice demonstrates her strength of character and intuition as she observes the differences between the elite of New York City and Boston. In this first book in a planned series, first-time author Taylor blends thriller and contemporary fiction elements in a tightly developed plot. Anne's romance with two boys from vastly different social backgrounds offers insight into the heroine's conflicted, yet emerging sense of morality. Ages 12-up. Agent: Suzie Townsend, New Leaf Literary & Media.

From Booklist

After accidentally starting a fire, Anne Dowling finds herself expelled from her Upper East Side prep school and attending another outside of Boston. She becomes the center of attention at Wheatley by virtue of being the new girland because news has already spread about how she came to be there. Her popularity is in direct contrast to her roommate, a brilliant scholarship student with whom Anne immediately bonds, and the fact that Isabella is far from popular with her classmates only emphasizes the difference. A week after her arrival, Anne is invited to attend a party in the boys dormitory, sneaks out, and cant get back into her room upon return. The next morning, she finds her roommate gone and learns that a girls body was found in the forest bordering the school. And Anne becomes determined to figure out whodunit. What begins as a fairly typical rich-girl-attracted-to-bad-boys-at-boarding-school novel rapidly becomes a terse, gripping, and well-plotted mystery that will keep readers glued. Be prepared for teens to clamor for the next book in the series; theyll want answers to threads left dangling. Grades 9-12. --Suanne Roush