The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618555192)

After the collapse of her parents' marriage, Mimi Schulman leaves her mother in Houston to look after her befuddled photographer father in New York. Too preoccupied with family problems to think much about her new life, Mimi's first hour at The Baldwin School--an institution where teachers offer psychoanalysis in lieu of grades and students hold cocktail parties in the bathroom between classes--leaves her spinning.

When Sam, her childhood best friend, bets her she can't befriend the "cool girls," Mimi accepts the challenge, only to discover that social climbing in New York is no easy task. Fitting in with the blond, all-American popular girls back in Texas was nothing compared to joining Baldwin's clique of raccoon-eyed waifs.

Rubbing shoulders with the offspring of diplomats and celebrities, all with secrets and dysfunctions that put her own domestic worries to shame, Mimi finds herself in one bizarre situation to the next--a fake-ID deli, a topless bar, a jacuzzi in Trump Tower--and in the position of winning a bet that threatens to make her lose sight of herself.

A coming-of-age story about friendship and betrayal, about brutal honesty and its consequences, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber is a novel with heart and a wicked sense of humor.

Author: Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser
ISBN-10: 0618555196
ISBN-13: 9780618555192
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2005
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.44w x 0.73d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 87468 / Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2005 pg. 1449
Kirkus Review - Children 05/01/2005 pg. 543
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2005 pg. 395
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2005 pg. 134
School Library Journal 06/01/2005 pg. 166